IRIS Lab talks thermal IR at the ESO virtual conference IR 2020 in October

Dani Atkinson gave an invited talk describing efforts to characterize the new Geosnap detectors at UM and Michael Meyer summarized plans to get Geosnap on-sky with adaptive optics at the MMT in 2021 and Magellan in 2022 with the MIRAC-5 cryostat.  We plan to characterize known exoplanets in the mid-IR (e.g. NH3 at 10 microns), study forming protoplanets embedded in circumstellar disks, and perhaps detect mature long period planets discovered through other techniques.  Check out all the action at https://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2020/IR2020.html