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A Rare Brown Dwarf in orbit around an M dwarf
August 4 2021

A Rare Brown Dwarf in orbit around an M dwarf

An international team led by researchers from the Institute for Research on Exoplanets has discovered…

2021
Caroline Piaulet recipient of a Vanier Scholarship
July 15 2021

Caroline Piaulet recipient of a Vanier Scholarship

Caroline Piaulet, a PhD student at the Université de Montréal and a member of the…

Awards and Prizes
SPIRou stares at a young rebel: the AU Mic planetary system
February 2 2021

SPIRou stares at a young rebel: the AU Mic planetary system

SPIRou, the new high-precision infrared spectropolarimeter recently installed at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, has measured for…

Press Releases
Towards a better understanding of the β Pictoris system
November 3 2020

Towards a better understanding of the β Pictoris system

Recent work led by Thomas Vandal, an iREx master’s student at the Université de Montréal…

2020
TESS completes its first mission
September 9 2020

TESS completes its first mission

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) completed its first mission last July after two years…

2020
Lookback at our 2020 summer internships
September 8 2020

Lookback at our 2020 summer internships

As we get ready for the start of a new academic year, we would like…

Team
SPIRou at La preuve par l’image
May 1 2020

SPIRou at La preuve par l’image

An image submitted by Étienne Artigau, a researcher from iREx, was selected by the jury…

Awards and Prizes
My Thesis in 400 words: Jonathan Chan
April 20 2020

My Thesis in 400 words: Jonathan Chan

Jonathan Chan, an iREx student at Université de Montréal, finished his master degree in 2020.…

Thesis in 400 words
Iron Rain on WASP-76b
April 6 2020

Iron Rain on WASP-76b

A team of researchers led by David Ehrenreich of the Observatoire astronomique de l’Université de…

2020
2020 CASCA Awards
February 29 2020

2020 CASCA Awards

Dunlap Award The Institute for Research on Exoplanets is proud to announce that René Doyon,…

Awards and Prizes
The End of the Spitzer Space Telescope
February 5 2020

The End of the Spitzer Space Telescope

The Spitzer Space Telescope’s mission ended on January 30, 2020, after scanning the Universe in…

2020
A second planet in the closest extrasolar system to our Sun?
February 5 2020

A second planet in the closest extrasolar system to our Sun?

A study published in Science magazine in January 2020 and led by Mario Damasso, an…

2020