Searching for Earth 2.0 in the crumbs of planet formation
John Debes
Space Telescope Science Institute
One of the central questions of astronomy over the next two decades will
be the frequency and chemical makeup of terrestrial planets near the
habitable zones of nearby stars. I will present some of my work to jump
start these answers over the next few years in novel ways, primarily
through the leveraging of white dwarfs as probes of both the chemical
makeup of planets and as potential sites for habitable planets. I will
also discuss how current and future NASA missions, from HST to TESS, will
play a key role in this work.
Date: | Jeudi, le 9 avril 2015 |
Heure: | 11:30 |
Lieu: | Université de Montréal |
| Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, local D-460 |
Contact: | Patrick Dufour |
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