Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170104778

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170104778

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Calibrating astronomical spectrographs to discover Earth-like planets. This project aims to develop a robust, ultra-precise calibration system that improves the precision of Doppler spectrographs by a factor of ten –sufficient to discover rocky planets. The holy grail of exoplanet research is the discovery of an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. The planet’s tug on its host star causes a periodic Doppler shift of the star’s spectrum which precision astronomical spectrographs record. Detecting minute shifts from rocky planets needs better precision than the best spectrographs provide. This project expects to help to discover Earth twins, habitable worlds outside the Solar system.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2017

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $475,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Planetary Science (excl. Extraterrestrial Geology) | Classical and Physical Optics | 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 | Classical and Physical Optics | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Planetary Science (excl. Extraterrestrial Geology) | Scientific Instruments

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