Dr Tansu Daylan, Posdoctoral associate and MIT and Princeton

Hi everyone, In this episode I am joined by Dr Tansu Daylan, who is a postdoctoral associate at MIT. Dr Daylan’s primary research interest is in the discovery and characterization of exoplanets.

Show Notes

Dr Daylan, told me about his work on explanets utilising primarily the TESS mission, and how the transit method is used to discover these planets. Additionally, he also spoke about the charecteristics that can be inferred from a discovered planets, such as the mass, density and orbital radius. 

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