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My Thesis in 400 words: Charles Cadieux
November 2 2020

My Thesis in 400 words: Charles Cadieux

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

Thesis in 400 words
Studying the Neptune-size planet LTT 9779 b – Interview with professors Björn Benneke and Nicolas Cowan
October 26 2020

Studying the Neptune-size planet LTT 9779 b – Interview with professors Björn Benneke and Nicolas Cowan

LTT 9779 b is an exoplanet the size of Neptune and very close to its…

Scientific Interviews
First images for the NIRPS spectrograph
September 9 2020

First images for the NIRPS spectrograph

The NIRPS spectrograph, whose design is led by a team from the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM), the Centre d’optique photonique et laser (COPL)…

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
Citizen scientists help discover two bizarre brown dwarfs in the Milky Way
July 10 2020

Citizen scientists help discover two bizarre brown dwarfs in the Milky Way

Thanks to the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have confirmed the existence of two of…

Press Releases
Jonathan Gagné becomes the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium’s Scientific Advisor
July 3 2020

Jonathan Gagné becomes the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium’s Scientific Advisor

Jonathan Gagné, a former Banting and Trottier postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research on…

Team
Discovering an exoplanet around AU Mic
June 25 2020

Discovering an exoplanet around AU Mic

Astrophysicists detect the orb hidden in the dust and gas debris around the young star…

Press Releases
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