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My time at iREx – Mohamad Ali-Dib
February 5 2021

My time at iREx – Mohamad Ali-Dib

Mohamad Ali-Dib, the Trottier 2018 postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal, joined the iREx…

My Time at iREx
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
My Thesis in 400 words: Frédéric Genest
January 27 2021

My Thesis in 400 words: Frédéric Genest

Frédéric Genest, an iREx student studying at the Université de Montréal, submitted his master’s thesis…

Thesis in 400 words
A ‘super-puff’ planet like no other
January 18 2021

A ‘super-puff’ planet like no other

A University of Montreal-led team of astronomers discovers that the core mass of exoplanet WASP-107b…

Press Releases
Jonathan Gagné joins iREx as an Associate Member
November 4 2020

Jonathan Gagné joins iREx as an Associate Member

Jonathan Gagné, a Scientific Advisor at the Rio Tinto Alcan Montreal Planetarium with Space for…

Team
Supersonic winds, rocky rains forecasted on lava planet
November 3 2020

Supersonic winds, rocky rains forecasted on lava planet

“Rocky” weather could change the surface and atmosphere over time on exoplanet K2-141b. Among the…

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
My Thesis in 400 words: Raphaël Hardy
November 2 2020

My Thesis in 400 words: Raphaël Hardy

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

Thesis in 400 words
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