Researchers in the Department of Astronomy at Boston University are engaged in a number of programs to understand how stars, their protoplanetary disks and their orbiting exoplanets form and evolve.
Faculty with Related Research |
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star-terrestrial planet interactions in our solar system and beyond; magnetic reconnection and turbulence; wave-particle interaction; physics-informed machine learning; high intensity laser-plasma interaction |
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young stars, planet formation, circumstellar disk structure and evolution, multiwavelength variability, radiative transfer modeling |
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high-precision observations of the endpoints of stars, planets, and binary systems, asteroseismology, time-domain astrophysics, space-based photometry, persistent gravitational wave sources |
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exoplanets, low-mass stars, instrumentation |
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computational and theoretical plasma physics in space and astrophysics; interaction of the solar system with the interstellar medium; solar wind; shocks in the lower corona, T-Tauri and solar-like stars |
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Research Facilities
We make heavy use of both ground and space-based telescopes including:
- the Hubble Space Telescope
- the Spitzer Space Telescope
- our own Perkins Telescope Observatory, a 1.8m optical-infrared facility outside Flagstaff, AZ
- shared facilities at Lowell Observatory:
- the 4.3m Lowell Discovery Telescope (formerly Discovery Channel Telescope)
- the 42-inch Hall Telescope