Extrasolar Planets -- Spitzer Takes the Heat

by Greg Laughlin (Lick Observatory)

Tuesday 16 Jun 2009, 10:30 → 12:00 Europe/Stockholm

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The Spitzer Space Telescope returned a large number of extraordinary observations of exoplanets during the cold phase of its mission. In this talk, I will show what these observations have taught us about the actual (and bizarre) conditions on extrasolar planets. A particular focus will be on the extremely eccentric P=111 day planet orbiting HD 80606. I will also talk about what we can expect in the exoplanet area from the Spitzer Warm Mission, which has just gotten underway.

Note room & time! See also his astrobiology talk at Nordita on Wednesday 16:00, titled "Earth-Mass Extrasolar Planets -- Next Year at the Latest!"

Host: Ricky Nilsson