Exploring Distant Worlds using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope

使用美国宇航局开普勒太空望远镜探索遥远的世界

• 批准号: DE140101364
• 负责人: Dr Daniel Huber
• 金额: $ 17.53万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE140101364
• 关键词: Exploring; Distant; Worlds; using; NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration space telescope Kepler is currently revolutionising planetary and stellar astrophysics through the detection of thousands of new extrasolar planets and oscillating stars. This project will use Kepler data to measure oscillations in exoplanet host stars, detect new planets around red-giant stars and improve our understanding of all stars observed by Kepler. The results are expected to yield the first precisely measured radius of an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star, lead to breakthrough discoveries in the theory of the formation and composition of gas-giant planets and result in the first accurate estimate of the frequency of Earth-like planets in our galaxy.

美国国家航空航天局的开普勒太空望远镜目前正在通过探测数千颗新的太阳系外行星和振荡恒星来彻底改变行星和恒星天体物理学。该项目将使用开普勒数据测量系外行星宿主恒星的振荡，探测红巨星周围的新行星，并提高我们对开普勒观测到的所有恒星的理解。预计这些结果将首次精确测量类太阳星星周围适居带中地球大小行星的半径，导致气体巨行星形成和组成理论的突破性发现，并导致首次准确估计我们银河系中类地球行星的频率。