Canada Research Chair in Exoplanet Astrophysics

加拿大系外行星天体物理学研究主席

• 批准号: CRC-2016-00125
• 负责人: Rowe, Jason
• 金额: $ 8.74万
• 依托单位: Bishop's University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Canada Research Chairs
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=693096
• 关键词: Canada; Research; Chair; Exoplanet; Astrophysics

The next phase of exoplanet research is understanding the growing knowledge of the composition and structure of both the atmosphere and interior of planets outside our solar system; are these planets scaled down versions of Neptune or scaled versions of Earth? or of a completely different nature? State of the art facilities available to the Canadian community will be used to measure the mass, radius, atmosphere, incident flux, composition and evolution of transiting extrasolar planets. The main objective of the program is to measure, compare and interpret fundamental properties of extrasolar planets to determine the diversity of exoplanets.

系外行星研究的下一阶段是了解太阳系外行星大气层和内部的组成和结构；这些行星是海王星的缩小版还是地球的缩小版？或者性质完全不同？加拿大社会可用的最先进的设施将用于测量过境系外行星的质量、半径、大气、入射通量、组成和演化。该项目的主要目标是测量、比较和解释系外行星的基本特性，以确定系外行星的多样性。