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  • Microlensing: Marching Toward a Complete Census of Cold Exoplanet Population

     

    Seminar Title

    Microlensing: Marching Toward a Complete Census of Cold Exoplanet Population

    Speaker: 

    Dr. DONG Subo

     

    Affiliation:  

     

    (KIAA-PKU)

       

    When: 

    Thursday morning , Mar. 20th , 10:30 a.m

    Where: 

     
    Room 619, Office Block, 2 West Beijing Road (PMO, CAS)
     
     

    Welcome to Attend 

     
      ( PMO Academic Committee & Academic Circulating committee)
     
     

     

    Abstract     

      Planetary microlensing search is on an accelerating pace. Over the last several years, thanks to a strategic shift into focusing on high-magnification events, several dozen new planets have been discovered by a follow-up network of small and medium-size telescopes. These findings offer us first glimpse at a largely uncharted territory of exoplanet discovery space -- planets down to Earth mass beyond the "snow line". I will review these discoveries and discuss their implications. The field is quickly shifting to the “Generation-II” planet microlensing surveys by forming global networks of wide-field 1-2m telescopes, expected to enhance the discovery rate by orders of magnitude in the near future. The discovery potential of microlensing will be fully unleashed by a space-based wide-field IR telescope, such as WFIRST — No.1 priority space-based program recommended by U.S. decadal survey.   

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