Planets and Inner Disks in Reflected Starlight with SPHERE/ZIMPOL

Figure by Rob van Holstein

This project overcomes the current limits of high-contrast imaging polarimeters, improve the sensitivity of SPHERE-ZIMPOL at the VLT by a factor of 10 to 50, and image, for the first time, an exoplanet in polarized light.

Funding provided by NOVA, Leiden Observatory

Christoph Keller
Christoph Keller
Director of Science

exoplanets, innovative instrumentation, solar physics, remote sensing, interdisciplinary research

Fedde Fagginger Auer
Fedde Fagginger Auer
PhD student

exoplanets, trace gases, instrumentation, spectroscopy

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