Presentation Year

2016

Depreciated Participant

Charlotte OlsenPhysics and AstronomyUndergraduate Student,Paola Rodriguez HidalgoPhysics and AstronomyFaculty,Christopher McIlraithPhysics and AstronomyUndergraduate Student,Garrett Benson Physics and AstronomyUndergraduate Student,Kelsey CrossPhysics and AstronomyUndergraduate Student,Troy MaloneyPhysics and AstronomyUndergraduate Student

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Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

Over the last 20 years, thousands of planets outside our solar system have been discovered orbiting other stars. The discovery of these extra-solar planets, or exoplanets as they are commonly known, has been made possible by the gathering of photometric and spectroscopic data of stars. We use public data from the Kepler and Hubble space telescopes to analyze photometric and spectroscopic data respectively on select objects of interest. Through analysis of this data, we are able to determine many properties of these exoplanets such as radius, density, temperature and atmospheric makeup. Our long term goal is to find ways to improve current atmospheric analysis methods.

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Yes

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153

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