Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LE160100014
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
VeloceCal: Hyper-Calibrating Australia's Planet Foundry. VeloceCal: hyper-calibrating Australia's planet foundry: VeloceCal aims to deliver a hyper-calibration capability to Australia's premier high-resolution optical spectrograph, such that instrumental drifts will make an insignificant contribution to the system's Doppler velocity measurement capabilities. This would transform Australian capabilities for the measurement of masses (and so densities) for the lowest mass planets which will be emerging from NASA's next-generation Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) from 2017 onwards. VeloceCal would play a pivotal role in determining whether the smallest planets found by TESS are terrestrial (like the Earth) or icy (like Neptune), and in unambiguously discovering terrestrial planets orbiting low-mass stars in habitable orbits.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 10-2017
Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
Funding Amount: $550,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Astrobiology | Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Astronomical and Space Instrumentation
