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Physics Senior Presentation: "The Search for Habitable Worlds and Planets around Other Stars"
Start Date: 6/10/2013Start Time: 12:30 PM
End Date: 6/10/2013End Time: 1:30 PM

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Title: The Search for Habitable Worlds and Planets around Other Stars

Physics Major: Kevin Burke

Abstract: For the last 25 years, astronomers have been detecting and characterizing exoplanets, planets circling distant stars. One of science’s “holy grails” is finding such a world capable of supporting life as we know it. Today, many of Earth’s most powerful ground-based telescopes are teaming up with space-based telescopes, such as NASA’s Kepler Mission, to detect, identify, and characterize distant alien worlds, resulting in mounds of data waiting to be explored by the scientific community. Here, I examine such data through the Planet Hunters Project, a publicly available tool that students and professionals alike can utilize to both educate themselves and make contributions to the exoplanet hunt.

 Advisor: Dr. Cullen Blake, UPenn
Contact Information:
Name: Dr. Luis Cruz
Phone: (215) 895-2739
Email: ccruz@physics.drexel.edu
Location:
Disque Hall, Room 109
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  • Current Students
  • Faculty
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