Observations of planets and brown dwarfs: putting all the pieces together

我的研究计划的总体长期目标是建立我们银河系中行星系统的普遍性和多样性，了解这些系统是如何形成和演化的，了解与大气和行星内部有关的物理学，并最终发现宇宙中其他地方的生命痕迹。在接下来的几年里，我将专注于在轨道距离、行星质量、恒星质量和系统年龄等尚未探索的领域进行观测，以探测和表征新行星。通过这项观测工作发现的数据将构成重要的基础，在此基础上，所有巨行星和行星系统的形成、演化、内部和大气模型将得到发展和验证。

The overall long-term objectives of my research program are to establish the prevalence and diversity of planetary systems in our galaxy, to understand how these systems form and evolve, to comprehend the physics involved in the atmosphere and interior of planets, and ultimately, to detect traces of life elsewhere in the universe. Over the next few years, I will focus on making observations to detect and characterize new planets in yet unexplored regimes of orbital separations, planet masses, star masses, and system ages. The data to be uncovered through this observational work will form the essential basis upon which all formation, evolution, interior and atmosphere models of giant planets and planetary systems will be developed and validated.