Planets and Inner Disks in Reflected Starlight with SPHERE/ZIMPOL
Figure by Rob van Holstein
This project overcomes the current limits of high-contrast imaging polarimeters, improve the sensitivity of SPHERE-ZIMPOL at the VLT by a factor of 10 to 50, and image, for the first time, an exoplanet in polarized light.
Funding provided by NOVA, Leiden Observatory
Christoph Keller
Professor of Experimental Astrophysics
exoplanets, innovative instrumentation, solar physics, remote sensing, interdisciplinary research
