Possible thesis projects
Possible thesis projects include:
- Activity properties of planet-bearing host stars
- Metallicities of planet bearing host stars
- Towards 100 transiting extrasolar planets
- How dry is the brown dwarf desert ?
- RV-variations in active and rapidly rotating stars
- Transiting planet detection with robotic telescopes
- Direct radial velocity planet detection
- Planet detection via spectro-astrometry
- Infrared radial velocity measurements
- Spectral surface imaging of stars
- Infrared studies of planet host stars
- 3-D modeling of irradiated planetary atmospheres
- 3-D modeling of spectra of stellar/planetary disks
- Non-coherent and non-isotropic scattering processes in radiative transfer
- Improved molecular line databases and their effects on cool model atmospheres
- Simulation of realistic star plus planet spectra
- The mass-radius relation of low-mass stars and substellar objects
- Spin-orbit alignment in binary planetary systems
- Orientation of stellar rotation axes
