Research Interests
Primarily I am interested in comparative exoplanetary science, the study of
planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. This nascent field is so young
that we cannot, yet, image exoplanets. Our 600 square foot laboratory in
the Rose Center is the birthplace of a number of new astronomical
instruments designed to tackle the problem of exoplanet imaging and
spectroscopy. In March 2003, we successfully deployed the world's most
sensitive coronagraph at the AEOS Telescope in Maui. See lyot.org for more information.
I also work on faint white dwarfs, the remnants of normal stars, and
brown dwarfs, objects like stars that never contained sustained fusion
reactions
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