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李政道研究所 NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite 2024年7月25日 14:00 蔻享学术 扫码查看精彩直播 // 嘉宾简介 Prof. Joshua N. Winn Josh Winn is a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University. His research group uses the transit, Doppler, and astrometric methods to study the geometry and dynamics of exoplanetary systems, and study the demographics of planet populations. He is an Architect of the TESS mission and the author of a book for the general public, The Little Book of Exoplanets, published in 2023 by Princeton University Press. 报告摘要 The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is NASA’s ongoing mission to discover planets outside the solar system, and more generally, to explore the bright and time-variable sky. TESS uses four small optical telescopes to monitor the brightness of millions of stars over wide fields of view. In the six years since the mission began, TESS has covered nearly the entire sky, leading to the confirmatio
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