Precise Radial Velocities for the Future of Exoplanet Detection
Jason Wright
Penn State
As precise radial velocimetry passes the 20 year mark, it remains a
fundamental component of the exoplaneteer's toolkit. I will look ahead
to the role it will play in its third decade, characterizing the Kepler
mission's extraordinary harvest of planetary systems, exploring the Solar
neighborhood, and placing the Solar System in cosmic context.
I will describe our strategy with the MINERVA project and at the
Hobby-Eberly Telescope, which proceeds both from the "outside in" and the
"inside out". Long-term followup of Kepler systems with inner terrestrial
planets will reveal their larger architecture, including the Jupiter
analogs that dynamically craft and stabilize planetary orbits. High cadence
monitoring of the brightest, nearest, most Sun-like stars will burrow
beneath the astrophysical and instrumental noise to reveal the close-in
terrestrial planets orbiting stars already known to have outer gas giants.
Date: | Tuesday, 24 February 2015 |
Time: | 15:30 |
Where: | McGill University |
| Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103) |
Contact: | Robert Rutledge |
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