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，了解这些系统如何形成和演变，理解大气和行星内部所涉及的物理学，并最终检测宇宙中其他地方的生命痕迹。在接下来的几年里，我将集中精力进行观测，以探测和描述新行星的轨道分离，行星质量，星星质量和系统年龄等尚未探索的制度。通过这一观测工作发现的数据将成为开发和验证巨行星和行星系统的所有形成、演化、内部和大气模型的基本基础。

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.