[Interview] The Future of Exoplanet Research

What's the best way to use telescope time to search for exoplanets? How many will we be able to find in a best-case scenario? What future missions will help us with that? Answering all these questions and more with Dr Ben Hord from NASA Goddard.

👉 Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterisation of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.09617.pdf

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• 00:00 Intro

• 01:49 Deciding which exoplanets to observe

• 09:56 Getting the masses

• 15:13 Using telescope time

• 19:28 What do we really know about exoplanets

• 26:40 Exhausting our search capabilities

• 31:10 Studying hot Jupiters

• 35:00 Perfect exoplanet searching mission

• 40:34 Current obsessions

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