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Planet formation, irradiated brown dwarfs, and changing planetary atmospheres.
Yifan Zhou | Exoplanets, Planet Formation, and Atmospheres
How planets form and how their atmospheres change.
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Current-role summary and downloadable curriculum vitae.
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Our group studies planet formation and planetary atmospheres at UVA.
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Selected recent results from the group.
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Astronomy courses and research mentoring at UVA.
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deep_dives
Following a young planet’s changing spectrum with JWST
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A spectrum that changes with time
Measuring a nine-hour day on β Pictoris b
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A planet’s rotation in its changing light
When brown dwarfs change brightness without much change in color
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Brightness and color are different measurements
Searching existing JWST images for cold giant planets
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Looking beyond the known planets
PDS 70 c: a growing planet changes brightness
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Watching a planet gain mass
Day and night on a brown dwarf beside a white dwarf
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A permanent day and night
portfolio
publications
research
How young planets grow
Following the flow of material onto planets while they are still forming.
Irradiated brown dwarfs
Using white-dwarf–brown-dwarf binaries as laboratories for atmospheric physics.
JWST time-domain imaging and spectroscopy
Building the observing and reduction methods needed to measure changing directly imaged planets.