Since the launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) three years ago, the exoplanet field had a new boom of discoveries. In this talk, the speaker will review the main exoplanet results from the TESS primary mission, and the current status of TESS's first extended mission. She will highlight some of the new exoplanet subfields that emerged from TESS discoveries, especially those from the Full Frame Images. These include multi-planetary systems around bright stars, Neptunes in the Neptune desert, planets around young field stars, and last but not the least, TESS's enormous contribution to our understanding of close-in gas giants.
BIO
Dr Huang is currently a Juan Carlos Torres Fellow at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. She graduated from Princeton University with PhD in Astrophysical Science in 2015. She was a Dunlap-CPS fellow at the University of Toronto in 2016 and has been working with the TESS team at MIT since 2017. Dr Huang is an expert in transiting planet detection and characterization. She currently leads the TESS Full Frame Image analysis at MIT. Her Quick look pipeline team has discovered thousands of planetary candidates in the TESS data, and provided time series of more than 10 million stars to the public. Dr Huang's research interests focus on the formation and evolution of planetary system architecture, particularly the systems that contain both gas giants and small planets.
Host: Wei Zhu
