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OUR TEAM

Meet the research team:


Lead

Jason Rowe

Canada Research Chair

Assistant Professor

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Kelsey Hoffman

Mission Specialist

Research Scientist

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Michael Karras

BRITE Mission

Undergrad Research Assistant

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Benjamin Leblanc

BRITE Mission

Undergrad Research Assistant


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Mallory Harris

Photodynamics

Undergrad Research Assistant

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Sabrina D'Amour

NEOSSat Mission

Undergrad Research Assistant

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Chris Kallio

Exoplanet Architectures

Undergrad Research Assistant

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Ryan Comeau

Exoplanet Atmospheres

Undergrad Research Assistant

News and Announcements

Kepler

Round table on Visual Culture in Astronomy

February 28, 2018

The round table will be a bilingual and cross-disciplinary event, setting an encounter between two French and two English speakers, two astrophysicists and two artists.

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Most Impactful Research Scientists

December 22, 2017

Bishop's University researcher named one of the world's top 1% most impactful scientific researchers.

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Research Infrastructure Funds Awards

December 5, 2017

Canada Research Chair Program and Canada Foundation for Innovation invest $650,000 in research and infrastructure funds for the study of exoplanets at Bishop’s University.

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NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

July 27, 2016

Bishop's University Researcher Awarded NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for Exoplanet Research

Our Research

Focused research and studies on the properties, statistics and occurrence of extrasolar planets, habitability and SETI. Team membership in the Kepler, BRITE, TESS, JWST and NEOSSat Missions. Wealth of experience with various space based astronomical instruments and platforms and desire to help develop future missions. Supporter of Open Source research software.

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Kepler/K2 Mission

2003 - present

Kepler Exoplanet Catalogue

Solar System Observations

Transiting Timing Variations

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BRITE

BRITE Constellation

2013 - present

Photometric Catalogue

Exoplanet Search

2017 Science Conference

Software

Monterosso

JWST

Launch: Spring 2019

2D Image Simulations

Spectro-Transit Extraction

Limb-darkening Tables

Software

Projects and Resources

MOST Mission
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NEOSSat Mission
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TESS Mission
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CASTOR Mission
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Exoplanet Transit Timing
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Exoplanet Transit Models
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Solar System Observations
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Software
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Contact Us

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Bishop's University

2600 Rue College

Sherbrooke, QC J1M 1Z7

Swing by for a cup of coffee, or whatever.

  Lennoxville, QC

  819 822-9600 ext 2049

  Jason.Rowe@ubishops.ca