Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140104065

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140104065

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Star and planetary system assembly with the VAMPIRES instrument. Understanding the origins of the Earth and our Solar System comprises one of the landmark challenges for contemporary astronomy. This project will commission the VAMPIRES instrument which will open a unique window upon planetary nurseries around distant stars. These dusty disks will be perturbed by any newborn planets orbiting within causing several subtle signatures which our instrument is designed to read. Such data will make a critical contribution to our understanding of planetary assembly. Revealing the primordial state, before the onset of structural changes as the system evolves, informs expectations for exoplanetary system architecture and for the chance that life is harboured around distant stars.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-05-2014

End Date: 31-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $389,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Classical and Physical Optics | Astronomical and Space Instrumentation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Instrumentation | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Classical and Physical Optics | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems

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