exoGravity

Gilles P.P.L. Otten
Fri, Nov 1 2019
The cryogenic vessel of the GRAVITY instrument where all 4 UT telescopes are interferometrically combined. Image credit: MPE/GRAVITY team

The exoGravity project is based around a 14 night long large program to cover multiple known directly imaged exoplanets in multiple epochs using the VLTI/GRAVITY instrument (K-band spectrograph). This allows the team to study the astrometry and spectroscopy (at up to $R=4000$) of these planets and their atmospheres.

GRAVITY Astronomy
Gilles P.P.L. Otten
Gilles P.P.L. Otten
Support Scientist

My research interests include high contrast imaging, high resolution spectroscopy and interferometry.

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Publications

Retrieving scattering clouds and disequilibrium chemistry in the atmosphere of HR 8799e

Context. Clouds are ubiquitous in exoplanet atmospheres and they represent a challenge for the model interpretation of their spectra. …
P. Mollière, T. Stolker, S. Lacour, Gilles P.P.L. Otten, J. Shangguan, B. Charnay, T. Molyarova, M. Nowak, Th. Henning, G.D. Marleau, D.A. Semenov, E. van Dishoeck, F. Eisenhauer, P. Garcia, R. Garcia Lopez, A.Z. Greenbaum, S. Hinkley, P. Kervella, L. Kreidberg, A.L. Maire, E. Nasedkin, L. Pueyo, I.A.G. Snellen, A. Vigan, J. Wang, P.T. de Zeeuw, A. Zurlo
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