MINERVA: SMALL PLANETS FROM SMALL TELESCOPES
| Autor: | Jason D. Eastman, Erich Herzig, Ming Zhao, Justin Myles, Annie Hjelstrom, Philip S. Muirhead, Brian Lin, Jonathan J. Swift, Thomas G. Beatty, Nate McCrady, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Michael Bottom, Jon de Vera, Stephen Criswell, Cullen H. Blake, Emilio E. Falco, Reed Riddle, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Paul Gardner, Chantanelle Nava, John Asher Johnson, Jason T. Wright, Connor Robinson, Kevin Ivarsen, Richard Hedrick, Peter Plavchan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Physics
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astronomy Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics General Medicine Exoplanet law.invention Astrobiology Radial velocity Telescope Kepler-47 Observatory law Primary (astronomy) Planet Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Circumstellar habitable zone Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics |
| Zdroj: | Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society. 30:665-669 |
| ISSN: | 1225-1534 |
| Popis: | The Kepler mission has shown that small planets are extremely common. It is likely that nearly every star in the sky hosts at least one rocky planet. We just need to look hard enough - but this requires vast amounts of telescope time. MINERVA (MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array) is a dedicated exoplanet observatory with the primary goal of discovering rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting in the habitable zone of bright, nearby stars. The MINERVA team is a collaboration among UNSW Australia, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Penn State University, University of Montana, and the California Institute of Technology. The four-telescope MINERVA array will be sited at the F.L. Whipple Observatory on Mt Hopkins in Arizona, USA. Full science operations will begin in mid-2015 with all four telescopes and a stabilised spectrograph capable of high-precision Doppler velocity measurements. We will observe 100 of the nearest, brightest, Sun-like stars every night for at least five years. Detailed simulations of the target list and survey strategy lead us to expect 154 new low-mass planets. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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