Collaborative Research: Identifying the Best Stars for Direct Imaging Planet Surveys and P — NSF Award to New Mexico State Univers
Discovering planets orbiting other stars can teach us about how they form, and capabilities now exist to find gas giants orbiting at 5-30AU from their stars (an AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun), like Jupiter and Saturn do in the Solar System. Unlike commonly employed indirect methods to sense a planet,
| Award title | Collaborative Research: Identifying the Best Stars for Direct Imaging Planet Surveys and P |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2510959 |
| Awardee | New Mexico State University |
| City | LAS CRUCES |
| State | NM |
| Amount obligated | $429,110 |
| Principal investigator | Eric Nielsen |
| Program | PLANETARY ASTRONOMY, OFFICE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY AC |
| Start date | 08/01/2025 |
| Abstract | Discovering planets orbiting other stars can teach us about how they form, and capabilities now exist to find gas giants orbiting at 5-30AU from their stars (an AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun), like Jupiter and Saturn do in the Solar System. Unlike commonly employed indirect methods to sense a planet, the technique of infrared direct imaging requires that the planet still glows from its heat of formation. Hence stars that have newly formed, which may be accompanied by newly-for |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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