Exoplanets from space – CHEOPS and PLATO, ESA’s next two projects
Research Project, 2017
– 2019
Preparation of CHEOPS (launch 2019) and PLATO (launch 2026) space missions in collaboration with several international groups. Light curve analysis of transiting exoplanets using data from current (K2 and TESS) and future (CHEOPS and PLATO) spacecrafts, and the acquisition and interpretation of supporting ground based data through the international KESPRINT team to characterise and publish the detected exoplanets and their systems.
Participants
Carina Persson (contact)
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics
Malcolm Fridlund
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics
Funding
Swedish National Space Board
Project ID: 174/18
Funding Chalmers participation during 2017–2022
Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure
Basic sciences
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