Nicolas Crouzet

    Research Fellow

     

    Main Research Fields

    My scientific interests are related to the search and characterisation of extrasolar planets. I detect exoplanets through their transits, and I study their atmospheres. I am also involved in astronomy from Antarctica.

    Exoplanet atmospheres: I observe exoplanets by spectroscopy to derive their atmospheric composition, structure, temperatures, winds, and cloud coverage. I use HST and ground-based telescopes, and I prepare future observations with JWST.

    Exoplanet detection: I develop and use wide-field photometric instruments to detect exoplanets by the transit method.

    Astronomy from Antarctica: I develop instruments that perform photometry during the continuous night of the Antarctic winter.


    Keywords

    Exoplanets: detection, characterisation, transits, atmospheres
    Observations, instrumentation, photometry, spectroscopy
    Photometric surveys
    Astronomy from Antarctica

     

    Ongoing collaborations

    The JWST Transiting Exoplanet Early Release Science program (N. Batalha, UC Santa Cruz, USA)
    Ground-based exoplanet spectroscopy (Enric Palle, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain)
    Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets (T. Guillot, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Nice, France)
    XO (Transiting exoplanet detection, P. R. McCullough, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA)
    JWST (Pierre Ferruit, JWST project scientist, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)

     

    Project/mission at ESA

    JWST, CHEOPS, ARIEL