Presentation Year

2018

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Kassandra WeberPhysics and AstronomyUndergraduate Student,Adam TurkPhysics and AstronomyUndergraduate Student,Paola Rodriguez HidalgoPhysics and AstronomyFaculty,Stephen KaneAstrophysicsFaculty,Troy Maloney Physics and AstronomyGraduate Student

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

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in planets outside of our solar system, also known as exoplanets. Our research involves looking for trends in these planets’ potential habitability, through archival information about the planet’s radius, its distance from its parent star, and its atmospheric composition. The latter is obtained using transmission spectroscopy, which shows absorption on different regions of the planet’s spectrum depending on the composition of the atmosphere. We are working in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Kane, the creator of the Habitable Zone Gallery, to include the spectroscopic information in this database, which will allow the community to access it.

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Yes

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435

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