Imaging the youngest planets

对最年轻的行星进行成像

• 批准号: DP240103290
• 负责人: Dr Christophe Pinte
• 金额: $ 28.63万
• 依托单位: Monash University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP240103290
• 关键词: Imaging; youngest; planets

Over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered, demonstrating that planet formation is a robust and widespread process. But we do not know how these planets, including those in our solar system, formed. Our group at Monash pioneered a new technique for detecting "baby" planets --- observed still embedded in the disc of gas and dust from which they are born. The project aims to characterise the youngest detected exoplanets with the world's largest telescopes, including time already awarded on the James Webb Space Telescope. We will image these planets, and model their birth in 3D. The project will develop state of the art computer algorithms for simulating fluid flow and data analysis technics that can be applied to problems here on Earth.

超过5000颗系外行星已被发现，这表明行星的形成是一个强大而广泛的过程。但我们不知道这些行星是如何形成的，包括我们太阳系中的那些行星。我们在莫纳什的团队开创了一种探测“幼小”行星的新技术-仍然被观测到嵌在气体和尘埃的圆盘中，它们就是从那里诞生的。该项目旨在用世界上最大的望远镜来描述探测到的最年轻的系外行星，包括詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜已经授予的时间。我们将为这些行星成像，并在3D中模拟它们的诞生。该项目将开发最先进的计算机算法来模拟流体流动和数据分析技术，这些技术可以应用于地球上的问题。