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General Seminar

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General Seminar takes place every Monday at 11.15 in Piwnice, radioastronomy seminar room.
Remote participation via the BigBlueButton (BBB).


25 March 2024

“Exploring exoplanets with radial velocity observations”

MSc Hannah Osborne (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK)

Abstract:
The first confirmed exoplanet orbiting a main sequence star was detected by the radial velocity (RV) method, and in the nearly 30 years since then the technique has continued to improve. In this talk I will highlight some of the benefits of using RVs to study exoplanets, as well as some of the struggles ? particularly from an observational perspective. I will also present some recent work using RV observations to characterise a newly discovered small planet which sits inside the small planet radius valley and could have a water-world composition. Finally, I will give an overview of what we can expect with future RV observations and the potential implications for exoplanets more generally.


8 April 2024

dr Simon Pfeifer (Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Germany)


15 April 2024

dr hab. Rodolfo Smiljanic, prof. CAMK PAN (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences)


22 April 2024

TBA


29 April 2024

prof. Vincent Van Eylen (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Department of Space and Climate Physics, University College London, UK)


6 May 2024

dr hab. Agnieszka Gil-Świderska, prof. UwS (Institute of Mathematics, Siedlce University; Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences)


13 May 2024

prof. dr hab. Szymon Kozłowski (Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw, Poland)


20 May 2024

prof. dr hab. Andrzej Pigulski (Astronomical Institute, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wrocław, Poland)


27 May 2024

prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Goździewski (Institute of Astronomy, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland)


3 June 2024

dr Michał Drahus (Astronomical Observatory, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)


10 June 2024

prof. Norbert Werner (Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)


24 June 2024

prof. Markus Boettcher (Centre for Space Research, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa)