2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Large-scale planet detection with TESS
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20K14518
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 16010:Astronomy-related
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | exoplanets |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Since the Kepler mission, a new era of planet discovery has begun, which involves large quantities of data from space telescopes. By analyzing data from the TESS mission we are expanding the planet search to the whole sky, enabling the discovery of many new planets that can be explored in more detail. In particular, the unprecedented scale and precision of TESS provides many excellent targets for further study using large ground-based telescopes as well as the recently launched JWST. By enabling such detailed studies, open questions about planet formation, migration, and evolution can ultimately be addressed. However, to achieve this we need to process large quantities of data, which presents both technical and human challenges. By building automated pipelines that run on high performance machines, the scale of the human challenges can be brought to a reasonable size. For the best planet candidates we discover, the computation of robust parameter estimates can also be done efficiently.
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| Free Research Field |
Astronomy
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Our understanding of how planets form is undergoing a revolution, allowing us to better understand our home planet and solar system. Furthermore, the discovery of biosignatures in the atmospheres of other planets has the potential to change our understanding of humanity in a universal context.
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