This website is an informational profile of Henriette Schwarz, an astronomer whose research concerns exoplanet atmospheres and the rotation of young giant planets. It is compiled from archived public material and does not represent the researcher herself.
Affiliation
Archived pages place her in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with work carried out at the Center for Adaptive Optics. Her earlier doctoral research took place at Leiden Observatory.
Contact details
Personal contact details are intentionally not republished here. Anyone wishing to reach the researcher should use the official channels of her current institution.
Where to go next
- Read the overview on the home page.
- Browse the list of papers.
- See the chapter summary of the doctoral thesis.
- Learn how a faint signal is recovered in the cross-correlation example.
- Background reading: how astronomers study exoplanet atmospheres.
About the research area
The subject of this site is exoplanet characterisation: using ground-based telescopes and very fine spectra to learn which molecules sit in the atmospheres of planets beyond our Solar System, and how quickly young giant planets and brown dwarf companions rotate. The work builds on instruments such as CRIRES and SINFONI and on data-analysis methods that pick faint signals out of noise. Everything on this site is a summary of public, archived information, and any detail that cannot be confirmed from that material has been left out.