The scientists got around the problem by using an imaging technique called 'coronagraphy', which effectively masks the direct bright star, allowing its corona and surrounding weaker reflected and ...

Identifying and studying exoplanets is conducted through a variety of detection methods, including transit, radial velocity, gravitational microlensing, timing, and direct imaging. For the transit ...

My research interests are in the direct imaging and characterization of exoplanets and their environments. I am the principle investigator of the PICTURE-D NASA balloon mission. I focus primarily on ...

Martel, T. A. Cook, and S Chakrabarti. The PICTURE-C exoplanetary direct imaging balloon mission: first flight preparation. In Stuart B. Shaklan, editor, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection ...