The team
We are a small of astrophysicists and future-to-be astronomers
at the Physics Department in Naples.
The group is led by
Prof. Giovanni Covone.
The team includes:
Luca Cacciapuoti, master student in Physics.
He defended his bachelor thesis in 2019,
and has contributed to the discovery of six exoplanets in two different systems.
Francesco Gallo, master student in Physics.
He will defend his bachelor thesis in October 2020,
analyzing atmospheres of Earth-like planets
Riccardo Ienco, master student in Physics.
He defended his bachelor thesis in March 2020,
with a thesis on exobiology in which he has studied the effect of
host-star radiation on the efficiency of oxygenic photosyntesis.
We are members of the TESS collaboration.
The projects
- Search and Validation of Exoplanets
- Habitability Conditions on other Worlds
- Exoplanets Atmospheres Spectra
- Application of Machine Learning to the search of Exoplanets
Our results appeared many times in the news. For instance:
Collaborations
TESS,
the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is a NASA space telescope
designed to search exoplanets using the transit method
around the closest stars.
Thesis projects
Thesis projects are available on all the projects mentioned above.
Just contact us!
Public Outreach
1.
Visioni Bruniane: In this
short series of three episodes our group, with the collaboration of local artists, cameramen and editors, has
presented a documentary on the
search for exo-worlds and
the philosopher Giordano). You
can take a look at our contribution at:
a. Episode 1,
b. Episode
2,
c. Episode
3,
2.
Interview on national italian television broadcast “Mezzogiorno Italia”: The
Interview