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