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New worlds, new frontiers: The next five-year plan for Australian exoplanetary science |
Seminar Title |
New worlds, new frontiers: The next five-year plan for Australian exoplanetary science |
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Speaker: |
Associated Professor Robert Wittenmyer |
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Affiliation: |
(Queensland University, MINERVA Observatory) |
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When |
Thursday afternoon, Nov. 9, 15:00 p.m |
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Where: |
Room 302, Astronomy Building |
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Welcome to Attend |
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( PMO Academic Committee & Academic Circulating committee) |
| Abstract: I give a summary of recent discoveries from the Australian exoplanet community. We highlight the continuing impact of the 18-year Anglo-Australian Planet Search: the characterisation of long-period giant planets, and the insights into the occurrence rate of Jupiter and Saturn analogs. Next I announce the discovery of the most eccentric planet yet found to orbit an evolved star. With an eccentricity of 0.86 and a mass of 4 Jupiter masses, this planet is nearing the end of its life and will plunge into its host star within 100 Myr. Finally, I discuss the future work by our group. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will identify hundreds of Super-Earths orbiting bright stars, for the first time allowing in-depth characterisation of these planets. At the University of Southern Queensland, we are host to the MINERVA-Australis project, dedicated wholly to the follow-up characterisation and mass measurement of TESS planets. I give anupdate on the status of this exciting project and our expected performance. |
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Copyright? Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS, No.10 Yuanhua Road, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023, China
Phone: 0086 25 8333 2000 Fax: 8333 2091 http://english.pmo.cas.cn |
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