Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This training session is part of the 2024 Sagan Summer Workshop on Advances in Direct Imaging: From Young Jupiters to Habitable Earths. For complete workshop information see: https://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2024/
In this hands-on session, you will learn how to image and characterize exoplanets with real data. The core of this process is performing stellar point spread function (PSF) subtraction to remove the glare of the star and look for faint planets in the data. In this hands-on session, you will learn how to perform stellar PSF subtraction using the pyklip package and look for real planets in real data. From there, you will learn how to measure the significance of a detection, quantify the sensitivity of the data, and measure the properties of any exoplanets you detect.
This training session is part of the 2024 Sagan Summer Workshop on Advances in Direct Imaging: From Young Jupiters to Habitable Earths. For complete workshop information see: https://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2024/
In this hands-on session, you will learn how to image and characterize exoplanets with real data. The core of this process is performing stellar point spread function (PSF) subtraction to remove the glare of the star and look for faint planets in the data. In this hands-on session, you will learn how to perform stellar PSF subtraction using the pyklip package and look for real planets in real data. From there, you will learn how to measure the significance of a detection, quantify the sensitivity of the data, and measure the properties of any exoplanets you detect.
