Collaborative Research: Develop A Bright, Ultrastable Optical Wavelength Calibrator for Exoplanet and Cosmology Research

该奖项是为了表彰一个项目，该项目旨在为使用梳状激光器的高分辨率光学光谱分析建立超稳定的频率校准器。开发这样一个系统的目的是能够将对太阳系外行星的间接探测扩展到质量较低的天体，即那些可与太阳系的类地行星而不是气体巨星相媲美的天体。间接光谱技术已被证明成功地发现了太阳系外行星，该奖项将开发的技术将允许测量母星的光谱线位置变化，从而推断行星伴星的存在和质量，比以前高得多的精度，从而将该技术扩展到质量较低的行星。该奖项将证明梳状激光可以用于这一应用，并将向普通社区分发技术和技术。此外，本科生和研究生将接受乐器方面的培训。这是一个非常热门的领域，太阳系外行星的存在，特别是那些与地球相似的行星的存在，将吸引公众的想象力。

This award is for a project to build an ultra-stable frequency calibrator for high resolution optical spectrography using a comb laser. The purpose of developing such a system is to be able to extend the indirect detection of extra-solar planets to lower mass objects, i.e. those comparable to the Solar System's terrestrial planets rather than the gas-giants. The indirect spectroscopic techniques have proven to be successful at finding extra-solar planets and the technology to be developed in this award will permit the spectral line positional changes of the parent star, which infer the existence and mass of a planetary companion, to be measured to significantly higher accuracy than before, thereby extending the technique to lower mass planets. The award will demonstrate that comb lasers can be used for this application and the technology and techniques will be distributed to the general community. In addition, undergraduate and graduate students will undergo training in instrumentation. This is a very topical field and the existence of extra-solar planets, especially those resembling the Earth, will capture the public imagination.