Coordination Funds

SPP的目标是结合德国系外行星社区的努力，以更好地了解系外行星的多样性。这也需要跨学科的联合努力，特别是将观测行星的探测和特征与理论联系起来。观测基础将由即将到来的国际项目组成，德国科学家将在这些项目中发挥主导作用，例如CARMENES、NGTS、GAIA、CHEOPS和主要地面天文台的仪器。这将得到公共数据的补充，例如K2和TESS任务以及JWST。提议的SPP的目的是连接和统一目前散布在德国各地的观测和理论工作。SPP将通过将观察者和理论家聚集在一起来促进这种合作。因此，中央协调员的一个主要重点是组织SPP活动，使德国系外行星社区能够加强合作，建立新的团队，并教育一代年轻科学家，他们可以在SPP内外利用仪器和理论模型。帮助组织这些活动的工具将是：一个中央访客计划、讲习班、会议和学校，以及参与者之间的工作级别会议。SPP网站将成为交换信息、数据和结果的中心焦点，同时也将成为SPP面向科学界和公众的平台。这些活动还得到对青年科学家特别是青年女科学家的支持的补充。在科学活动的基础上，我们将设立一个公众宣传项目，向公众宣传SPP活动，特别是利用系外行星这一引人入胜的话题，让更多的年轻人对自然科学研究产生兴趣。本提案概述了支持这些活动所需的资金。

The goal of SPP is to combine the efforts of the German exoplanet community to better understand the diversity of extrasolar planets. This requires to also combining efforts across disciplines, in particular linking observational planet detection and characterization to theory. The observational basis will be formed by upcoming international projects for which German scientists have leading roles, such as, e.g., CARMENES, NGTS, GAIA, CHEOPS and instruments at major ground-based observatories. This will be complemented by public data available, e.g. from K2 and TESS missions, and the JWST. The purpose of the proposed SPP is to connect and unify the observational and theoretical efforts that are currently spread out over Germany. The SPP will foster such co-operations by bringing observers and theoreticians together. A main focus for the central coordinator therefore is to organize SPP activities which allow the German exoplanet community to enhance collaborations, build-up new teams and educate a generation of young scientists who can exploit the instruments and theoretical models within the SPP and beyond in the next decades. Tools to help organizing these activities will be: a central visitor program, workshops, conferences and schools, as well as working level meetings between participants. The SPP web site will form a central focus to exchange information, data and results, but also serve as a platform of the SPP to the science community and general public. These activities are complemented by support for young scientists in general and young female scientists in particular. A public outreach program will complement the science activities allowing us to advertise the SPP activities to the general public, but in particular to use the fascinating topic of extrasolar planets to make more young people interested in natural science studies. This proposal outlines the funds requested to support these activities.