David Kipping
David Mathew Kipping, born in 1983 or 1984, is an astronomer and assistant professor at Columbia University. He specializes in researching exoplanets and exomoons and directs the Cool Worlds laboratory, part of the Department of Astronomy at Columbia.
He is best known for his work on exomoons, but his research interests also include the study and characterization of exoplanets in transit, the development of new detection and characterization techniques, the atmospheres of exoplanets, Bayesian inference, and population statistics. He is the Principal Investigator of the Kepler project.
His Ph.D. thesis was awarded in 2011 by University College London. It is titled The Transits of Extrasolar Planets with Moons.
Work on Terrascope
David Kipping has proposed using Earth's atmosphere as a gigantic telescope, called the Terrascope. Instead of using gravitational lensing, it proposes to use atmospheric lensing. A Terrascope with a 1 meter diameter lens equals a "regular" space telescope with a lens of 150 meters, making it a cost-effective option. However, it only works for light sources located on the other side of our planet.
References
Bibliography
- Grossman, Lisa (4 October 2017). "David Kipping seeks new and unexpected worlds". ScienceNews. 192 (6): 22.
- Kipping, David Mathew (March 2011). "The Transits of Extrasolar Planets with Moons" (PDF). University College of London. arXiv:1105.3189.
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