Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140100121
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Characterization of extrasolar planets using high-precision polarimetry. Close to a thousand exoplanets have been found since the discovery of a planet around a Sun-like star, 51 Peg in 1995. With the Kepler space telescope, we are now capable of finding Earth-size worlds around other stars. But how do we know if these Earth-like planets have all the right ingredients for life like ours to flourish? Polarimetry is a powerful method of exoplanet characterisation that could one day answer such questions and can be applied, right now, to the giant planets. An innovative, portable polarimeter will be developed, that will be used to understand the atmospheric composition of exoplanets. Polarimetry is a promising method, which in the future may be the first method that can detect liquid water on extrasolar planets.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 08-2015
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $34,500.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Astrobiology | Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Planetary Science (excl. Extraterrestrial Geology)
