The Never-Ending Story of Giant Planets

by Dr Sharon Xuesong Wang (Tsinghua University)

Thursday 27 Oct 2022, 10:00 → 11:00 Asia/Shanghai

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Abstract

Giant planets like hot Jupiters are the easiest planets to find, which is why the first discovered extrasolar planets are all giants. Three decades later, we now know over a thousand giant planets. However, there are still numerous mysteries around their formation, evolution, and their impact on their natal planetary systems. In this talk, I will introduce my group’s recent research on how special samples of giants would shed light on some of the clues in their formation and evolutionary processes. 
 

Biography

Dr. Sharon Xuesong Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy in Tsinghua University since 2020. She received her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in the US and then worked as a Carnegie Fellow in Carnegie DTM (now EPL) and the Carnegie Observatories. Dr. Wang is an expert in searching and characterizing exoplanets, especially using radial velocities (RV), leading the RVxTESS survey and the Magellan TESS Survey. She is a science team member of multiple RV instruments, such as Magellan-PFS, MINERVA, WIYN-NEID, and the upcoming Keck-KPF.

Chair

Fabo Feng

Division

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Other information

Place: N630

Tencent Meeting link:  https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/aJOb8vH53UNI

Meeting ID:  594-542-926