Jason Wang

@thejason.wang

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Astronomer. I take images of extrasolar planets. Sometimes I make GIFs of them. Professor at Northwestern/CIERA. jasonwang.space

A screenshot of the movie of the 4 planets orbiting HR 8799, but this time they have tails due to some video bug.
A plot showing contrast curves for KLIP, our new algorithm, and the fundamental noise limit of our data.
A series of images showing our new algorithm to detect planets compared to a standard KLIP algorithm. The images show that our new method enables a boost in SNR.
A Duolingo 365 day learning street with a very bright owl
The hardware of the ELODIE spectrograph, including gratings and detector. The optical path is traced out in the display.
A golden reflective optic with a small dot in the center that is used to occult the star. The optic is in a display case
Me in front of the telescope