2020 Townsend Public Lecture - Montreal Centre

Event Date: 
Saturday, September 5, 2020 - 20:00 to 22:00 EDT

What Can We Learn From Exoplanets?

Dr Jason Rowe, presented by RASC Montreal

The thousands of confirmed exoplanets and possible candidates seem to come in all masses, sizes and orbits around their parent stars. These observations are increasing our understanding of how exoplanets and exosolar systems form and evolve. Dr. Rowe will discuss using Space Astronomy resources in the field of exoplanet astrophysics, from using observations of solar system giants to test planet formation theories to combining observations from the NASA Kepler and ESA GAIA missions to map out the architectures of exosolar systems. Future planned and proposed missions (JWST, CASTOR and Canadian micro-satellites) aim to probe the physics underlying differences between potential classes of exoplanets — so called Earth-like, super-Earth, mini-Neptune exoplanets and explore how exoplanetary systems compare to our own Solar System.

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