PSION

PSION (Planetary Systems In Our Neighborhood) aims at searching for planets around some of the nearest stars to the Sun. Finding or constraining the architecture of nearby planetary systems is not only interesting in itself (who does not want to know their neighbors?), but it is also a crucial stepping stone for upcoming instruments (such as, e.g., ELT/METIS) and potential future missions (such as, e.g., external pageLIFEcall_made – there will be a new LIFE webpage (see below)) to help identify and prioritize key targets. Part of PSION is carried out in a joint collaboration with the University of Geneva through the external pageNCCR PlanetScall_made, but we also have additional projects we are participating in (e.g., the external pageNEAR campaigncall_made).

Recent PSION publications:

Boehle et al. 2019 external pageCombining high-contrast imaging and radial velocities to constrain the planetary architectures of nearby starscall_made