For our second lecture of our new season we have a new speaker to the NIAAS. Niamh Mallaghan from QUB will be giving a talk titled ‘Searching For Giant Exorings‘. This meeting will be held on Monday 7th October 2024, starting at 8pm sharp. This will be held in our usual venue of Ballyclare High School Lecture Theatre.
About the talk: In this talk I will be covering rings around planets within our solar system, theories about how they formed and how they have survived so long. Once the background has been set then we will discuss how we might find rings around planets outside of our solar system, known as exorings, along with the candidates that have been discovered thus far, and why this area of exoplanet research is important.
About Niamh: I’m a second year PhD student at QUB studying in the Exoplanet group with Ernst de Mooij and Chris Watson. I work on the search for and characterisation of exoring systems.
I’m sure you will all join me in making Niamh feel very welcome to the NIAAS and I’m sure, like me, you will find this topic very interesting! Saturn has been a nice presence in our evening sky within the past couple of months and so learning about the rings is very fitting. Really looking forward to it!
Remember, after the meeting we will have time for a cup of tea and some good chat!
See you all there!
