Research

The Institute’s researchers are working on research projects revolving around 3 main themes:

Observation

• High-contrast imaging
• High-precision infrared velocimetry
• Transit spectroscopy
• Distant exoplanets and brown dwarfs in young stellar associations
• Brown dwarfs and exoplanets
• Variability and climate of brown dwarfs and exoplanets
• White dwarfs and exoplanets

Instrumentation

• JWST: searching for and describing exoplanets
• SPIRou: searching for planets around red dwarfs in the northern hemisphere
• NIRPS: searching for planets around red dwarfs in the southern hemisphere
• PESTO: searching for exoplanets and exomoons at the Mont-Mégantic Observatory
• GPI: exoplanet imaging
• Next generation space telescopes

Theory

• Giant planet formation and evolution