PhD canditate
E-mail: bohn@strw.leidenuniv.nl
Telephone: +31 71 527 8150
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Office number: HL 1125
I am a PhD candidate and started my research at Leiden Observatory in August 2017. Together Matthew Kenworthy and Frans Snik I am developing methods to directly image giant extra-solar planets.
The main challenges in obtaining direct images of planets outside our solar system is to overcome the huge contrast between a faint planet and a bright star already at very small angular separations. This can only be achieved by a perfect interplay between astronomical instrumentation and post-processing strategies of the obtained data. Whereas most members of Leopard are focusing on the development of novel and groundbreaking instruments, I am trying to find optimal data reduction strategies.
Papers and Conference proceedings
Two directly-imaged, wide-orbit giant planets around the young, solar analogue TYC 8998-760-1, Bohn A. et al., The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2020)
SPHERE/ZIMPOL observations of the symbiotic system R Aquarii. I. Imaging of the stellar binary and the innermost jet clouds, Schmid, H. M. et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics (2017)