Patrick J
Lowrance
Staff Scientist
Spitzer Science Center
California Institute of
Technology
I am a staff scientist at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC),
on the campus of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). As a member
of the IRAC (Infra-Red Array Camera) instrument team, I help to manage the operations
and data reduction of science data taken on the telescope.
My astronomical research deals with brown dwarfs, substellar companions, extra-solar planets, and adolescent stars.
I have concentrated recently on learning more about differences in spectral features as young, low-mass
dwarfs.
2M1207B (red) is a 5-10 Jupiter mass companion to the
25 Jupiter mass brown dwarf 2M1207A
AB Dor B is a ~13 Mjup companion to AB Dor A.
This image was obtainable with a coronagraph
on the VLT AO system.
