Canada Research Chair in Exoplanet Astrophysics

系外行星研究的下一个阶段是了解不断增长的关于行星组成的知识 以及太阳系外行星的大气层和内部结构；这些是 行星缩小了海王星的版本，还是缩小了地球的比例？或者是一个完全不同的 大自然？加拿大社区可用的最先进的设施将被用来测量 凌日太阳系外行星的质量、半径、大气、入射通量、组成和演化。 该计划的主要目标是测量、比较和解释 太阳系外行星以确定系外行星的多样性。

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.