A 30 Second History of Exoplanet Exploration

I recently updated a video I’ve been showing for the last few years in public talks on exoplanets.  This shows the current population of known exoplanets, in order of discovery and coded by discovery method.

The code to generate this video is available at: https://github.com/dsavransky/miscpy/blob/master/Animaitons/exoplanet_history_anim.py

Data is from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/).

SGRS at Cornell, January 20th 2017

SIOSLab attended the 2017 Sibley Graduate Research Symposium (SGRS) held in Upson Hall at Cornell University on January 20th, 2017. Joyce Fang presented her talk titled “Misalignment Retrieval of an Off-axis Parabolic Mirror using Kalman Filtering.” Jacob Shapiro presented his talk titled “Improved Signal Detection in Direct Imaging of Exoplanets.” Gabriel Soto presented his talk titled “Starshade Orbital Maneuver Study for WFIRST.”

229th AAS Meeting

SIOSLab attended the 229th AAS Meeting in Grapevine, Texas earlier this month. Daniel Garrett presented his poster titled “Analytical Methods for Exoplanet Imaging Detection Metrics.” Jacob Shapiro and Nikhil Ranganathan presented their poster titled “Blind Source Separation Algorithms for PSF Subtraction from Direct Imaging.” Gabriel Soto presented his poster titled “Starshade Orbital Maneuver Study for WFIRST.”

 

 

 

NASA Deputy Administrator Visits SIOSlab

img_1562As part of her recent visit to the Sibley School, NASA deputy administrator Dava Newman stopped by SIOSlab to hear about our work.  We were all very excited to share our research, especially as so much of our support comes from NASA. Many thanks to Dr. Newman, Danielle Wood, Ana Diaz Artiles and everyone involved in making her visit here a great success.

Pictured (left to right):  Jacob Shapiro, Danielle Wood (Special Assistant to the Deputy Administrator), Dava Newman, Gabriel Soto, Dmitry Savransky, Joyce Fang, Christian Delacroix, Daniel Garrett.