The Origins and Evolution of the Most Abundant Planets in our Galaxy

银河系中最丰富行星的起源和演化

• 批准号: DE210101893
• 负责人: Dr Yanjun Zhou
• 金额: $ 29.92万
• 依托单位: University of Southern Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-02-08 至 2024-02-08
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE210101893
• 关键词: Origins; Evolution; Most; Abundant; Planets

The majority of planetary systems around other stars are not like our Solar System. We now know that the most common types of exoplanets are super-Earths and Neptunes, planets with sizes ranging from Earth to Neptune, residing close to their parent stars. This project aims to characterise these planets at various stages of their evolution. This project will utilise Australian facilities to characterise new planets from the TESS space telescope, and is expected to probe the dynamical and physical properties of super-Earths and Neptunes as a function of age. Important benefits from this project include directly answering the origins of this dominant class of planets, and developing the techniques for the next decade of exoplanetary research.

其他恒星周围的大多数行星系统都不像我们的太阳系。我们现在知道，最常见的系外行星类型是超级地球和海王星，这些行星的大小从地球到海王星不等，居住在它们的母恒星附近。这个项目的目的是在这些行星演化的不同阶段对其进行观测。该项目将利用澳大利亚的设施从TESS太空望远镜中观测新的行星，预计将探测超级地球和海王星的动力学和物理特性作为年龄的函数。该项目的重要好处包括直接回答这类占主导地位的行星的起源，并为未来十年的系外行星研究开发技术。