Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160101585

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE160101585

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Harnessing Astrophotonics and Adaptive Optics to Discover Habitable Planets. This project aims to improve spectrographic design in order to increase precision in astronomical research. The discovery of Earth's twin, a habitable world in another stellar system, is one of the most remarkable scientific endeavours of our time. The gravitational tug of the planet on its host star causes a periodic Doppler shift of the star’s spectrum which is recorded using spectrographs. The instrumental precision required to detect an Earth-like planet is a few centimetres per second, significantly better than the best current spectrographs can provide. This project plans to combine novel technologies from adaptive optics and astrophotonics into an innovative spectrograph design that will improve Doppler precision by a factor of ten, sufficient to find planets.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-07-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $388,463.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Planetary Science (excl. Extraterrestrial Geology) | Optical Physics not elsewhere classified | Astronomical and Space Instrumentation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Scientific Instruments |

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Instrumentation | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Optical Physics not elsewhere classified | Planetary Science (excl. Extraterrestrial Geology) | Scientific Instruments

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