Research Topics and Programs

ExoCTK is an open-source, modular, data analysis software package focused primarily on the atmospheric characterization of exoplanets.  It serves as a single repository for JWST observation planning, data reduction, light curve fitting, and atmospheric retrievals.

The Institute for Planets and Life (IPL) is a highly interdisciplinary team of scientists at Johns Hopkins University, STScI, and the Applied Physics Laboratory. They combine their expertise to address fundamental questions about the origins, evolution, and prevalence of life in the universe.

The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) is a powerful imaging survey of the distant universe carried out with two cameras on the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) is an innovative survey to place new constraints on the fundamental components of the cosmos using the Hubble Space Telescope.

The COS-Halos Survey studies the diffuse, invisible gas medium surrounding galaxies. We use the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on HST and big telescopes on the ground to probe and weigh this gas and examine its role in how galaxies form and why they look the way they do.

Frontier Fields draws on the power of massive clusters of galaxies to unleash the full potential of the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) is a large Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 21 program targeting 10 massive clusters, to take spectra of faint background galaxies with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution.

The HSTPROMO collaboration uses high-resolution space telescopes to understand the dynamics of stars, clusters, and galaxies in the nearby Universe through proper motion studies.

Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) is a Treasury Program that has imaged 50 local galaxies with WFC3 and ACS from the UV to the near-IR. Its aim is to quantify how the clustering of star formation evolves in both space and time.

The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) is an HST multi-cycle program to map roughly a third of the star-forming disk of M31, using six filters covering the ultraviolet through the near-infrared.

Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey (RELICS) is a Hubble Space Telescope Treasury program and Spitzer Space Telescope general observer (GO) program that analyzes the best and brightest high redshift candidates magnified by gravitational lensing.

The Shocked POststarburst Galaxy Survey (SPOGS) searches for galaxies that are currently undergoing rapid transformations from blue cloud late-type spirals to red sequence early-type elliptical and lenticular galaxies to identify galaxies in metamorphosis and understand galaxy transformation.

The Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) will directly image planetary systems around Sun-like stars. The ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared mission will be sensitive to all types of planets, but its main goal is to directly image Earth-like exoplanets.

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) is a concept that will survey hundreds of stars to search for rocky planets in their habitable zones. It will also provide unprecedented resolution and sensitivity on faint stellar populations and map the properties of intergalactic gas flows.

Lynx is an X-ray mission concept that will close major gaps in our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution, and greatly expand our understanding of X-rays throughout the Milky Way and nearby galaxies.

The Origins Space Telescope (OST) is a concept that will revolutionize our understanding of planetary system formation, detect signs of life in nearby exoplanets, and unveil the dark side of galaxy evolution.