Dino Chih-Chun Hsu is a postdoctoral researcher at CIERA since 2022 September. He is interested in low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets using high-resolution spectroscopy to extract physical parameters such as radial and rotational velocities with the goal of understanding their formation and evolution.
The researchers say that by studying similar star systems, we can learn more about potentially habitable planets beyond Earth. Ultracool dwarfs are much fainter and dimmer than the sun, so any worlds with liquid water on their surfaces — a crucial ingredient to form and sustain life — would need to be much closer to
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