Dijana Dominis - Searching for extrasolar planets with gravitational microlensing

Europe/Madrid
Seminar (IFAE)

Seminar

IFAE

Marc Manera (IFAE), Pere Masjuan (IFAE), Stefano Terzo (IFAE)
Description

Since the first discoveries of extrasolar planets in early 90-ies, a large number of exoplanet discoveries has been announced and published, using different astrophysical methods. But what did we actually learn about them? 

Despite of the relatively small fraction in the overall number of discoveries, the method of gravitational microlensing using ground-based optical telescopes has yielded some of most exciting results in the field, such as discovery of the first "Earth-like" (cold solid low-mass) exoplanet, first statistics of mass distribution of planets in the Milky Way, detections of free-floating planets, and precise mass measurement of an exoplanet. 

A brief overview of different exoplanet searching methods will be given it the talk, with emphasis on the highlight results obtained by the PLANET (Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork) telescope network.

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Participants
Participants
  • Alexis Menéndez Vázquez
  • Anil Sonay
  • Chaitanya Priyadarshi
  • Elena Moretti
  • Imma Riu
  • Isaac Esparbé
  • Jouvin léa
  • Lluïsa-M. Mir
  • Machiel Kolstein
  • Manel Martinez
  • Marcel Algueró
  • Marti Verdaguer
  • Matteo Cavalli-Sforza
  • Oscar Martinez Carmona
  • Pere Masjuan
  • Pilar Casado
  • Sidika Merve Colak
  • Thorsten Lux
  • Tianya Wu
  • Umut Demirbozan
    • 13:00 13:05
      Introduction and General Announcements 5m
      Speakers: Dr Marc Manera (IFAE), Dr Pere Masjuan, Dr Stefano Terzo (IFAE)
    • 13:05 13:25
      Presentation of the Week 20m
      Speaker: Dijana Dominis (University of Rijeka)
    • 13:25 13:35
      Discussion 10m
    • 13:35 14:00
      Pizza 25m
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