Astronomy Lecture: Cloudy Extrasolar Skies in the JWST Era! by Genaro Suárez

Location: Ellipse (Technology Center, Room 8180)

Exoplanets (planets beyond our Solar System) and brown dwarfs (objects more massive than planets but lighter than stars) are cool enough to form clouds made of exotic materials, including sand and iron. These clouds shape the appearance and weather of these distant worlds, making them key to understanding the nature of exoplanets. In this talk, I will share our latest discoveries about the physics and chemistry of these extraordinary clouds and how they influence extrasolar atmospheres, based on observations from powerful telescopes like JWST and Spitzer. Our findings offer a clearer picture of the striking diversity of exoplanets and brown dwarfs across our galaxy.

About Genaro Suárez
Genaro Suárez is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History in New York. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow from 2019-2022 at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CA. Genaro Suarez has a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research interests are brown dwarf and giant exoplanet atmospheres, star and brown dwarf formation, initial mass function, stellar dynamics, and circumstellar disks.

For more information, please email Prof. Safaie: [email protected]