Exoplanets and asteroseismology with TESS.

该项目将利用美国航天局凌日系外行星勘测卫星（TESS）的新数据。TESS是第一个提供几乎全天空测光的太空使命，覆盖的区域是之前NASA行星发现使命开普勒（Borucki et al. 2010）的400倍。在这个博士项目中，我们将使用这些最先进的观测方法来了解系外行星，以及它们的宿主恒星。后者将包括对恒星振荡的调查，这是一种称为星震学的技术。利用星震学，我们将寻求对系外行星宿主恒星的性质进行详细的了解，并将这些发现与其系外行星的性质联系起来。通过这种方式，我们将精心策划一个已知的系外行星系统的黄金样本，并使用这个样本来了解系外行星系统以及我们自己的太阳系的形成。

This project will make use of novel data from the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TESS is the first space mission to provide nearly all-sky photometry, covering an area 400 times larger than that of the previous NASA planet finding-mission, called Kepler (Borucki et al. 2010). During this PhD project we will use these state-of-the-art observations to understand not only exoplanets, but also their host stars. The latter will consist of an investigation of stellar oscillations, a technique known as asteroseismology. Employing asteroseismology, we will seek to gain a detailed insight into the properties of exoplanet host stars, and link these findings to the properties of their exoplanets. In this way, we will curate a gold sample of exoplanet systems that are known in exquisite detail, and use this sample to learn about the formation of exoplanet systems as well as our own solar system.