Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP240101842

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP240101842

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Lifting the Veil on Cold Planets in the Inner Galaxy. The project aims to explore a unique aspect of exoplanet detection: searches for cold planets of Earth mass and larger in the densest stellar fields of the inner Milky Way. Infrared cameras will be used to detect small planets in this extreme galactic environment. The proposed project will open a new era of infrared microlensing observations from the ground and supply critical data in preparation for the next generation of microlensing from space. This work directly links to the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope (2026 launch) Galactic Exoplanet Survey. Expected outcomes are a greatly improved understanding of planet formation down to terrestrial-mass planets, and improved techniques for cold planet detection with gravitational microlensing.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2024

End Date: 12-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $563,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomical sciences | Stellar astronomy and planetary systems | Galactic astronomy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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