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Olivier Guyon

Olivier Guyon

American physicist

Olivier Guyon (born 1975) is a French-American astronomer. He is an astronomer at the Steward Observatory of the college of science and professor in the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences,[1] both of The University of Arizona. He is the SCExAO Project Scientist at the Subaru Telescope. Guyon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.[2]

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Guyon designs telescopes and other astronomical instrumentation that aid in the search for exoplanets planets outside the Solar System.[3] Specifically, coronagraphs and extreme adaptive optics.

Guyon developed the PANOPTES project,[4] a citizen science project that aims to make it easy for anyone to build a low cost, robotic telescope that can be used to detect transiting exoplanets.

References

  1. [1]
    "Olivier Guyon". University of Arizona. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Olivier Guyon - MacArthur Foundation".
  3. [3]
    "Oliver Guyon".
  4. [4]
    "PANOPTES project".


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