DICE

Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets from LBT and VLT to E-ELT

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN    more  Organization address address: RAPENBURG 70 city: LEIDEN postcode: 2300 RA contact info Nome: Tonnis Cognome: Brouwer Email: send email Telefono: +31 71 527 3149 Fax: +31 71 527 5269
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Netherlands [NL]
Totale costo	100˙000 €
EC contributo	100˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG
Funding Scheme	MC-IRG
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-03-01   -   2015-02-28

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN  Organization address address: RAPENBURG 70 city: LEIDEN postcode: 2300 RA contact info Nome: Tonnis Cognome: Brouwer Email: send email Telefono: +31 71 527 3149 Fax: +31 71 527 5269	NL (LEIDEN)	coordinator	100˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The direct imaging of planets around other stars has begun in earnest. The main challenge in imaging these faint companions is the large contrast between star and planet. By using a combination of adaptive optics, coronagraphs, thermal wavelength imaging and point spread function modeling, current ground based telescopes can search closer to target stars for extrasolar giant planets. The applicant proposes to continue his current exoplanet surveys using the facilities at Steward Observatory (the Large Binocular Telescope, LBT) and European facilities (the ESO Very Large Telescope, VLT) and characterize new discoveries with spectroscopy.

In moving to Leiden, the applicant will use the resources to develop these exoplanet detection techniques, and start a project with a PhD student partly funded with this reintegration grant to measure the ground layer atmospheric turbulence at high telemetry rates for further analysis. By providing real world data for European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) adaptive optics simulations, the performance of next generation of exoplanet instruments will be increased.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU-funded project is developing direct methods for actually acquiring an image of planets. We could soon be one step closer to answering the age-old question of whether life exists on any other planet beyond Earth.