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Arbeitsgruppe 2<br />
Exoplanets - Detection and Characterization of<br />
strange New Worlds<br />
Does life exist elsewhere in the Universe or is it confined to our Solar System or even to our<br />
own planet Earth?<br />
We are entering an era where mankind has developed the te<strong>ch</strong>nological means to empirically<br />
tackle one of the most profound questions of natural sciences, philosophy and religion.<br />
Only in 1995, the first planet orbiting a star other than our Sun was detected and today the<br />
planet count is up to more than 800 so-called exoplanets and more than 2000 additional<br />
exoplanet candidates are waiting to be confirmed.<br />
In this workshop we will have a closer look at what has been learned from the population<br />
of exoplanets so far. On this basis we will then discuss what the most interesting and important<br />
open questions are and how they could possibly be answered with new scientific<br />
instruments in Space or on Earth. Different possible exoplanet missions/projects will be<br />
assessed and the one whi<strong>ch</strong> finds most support in our group will be laid out, analyzed and<br />
planned in greater detail. The workshop will not only provide a broad introduction to one<br />
of the most exciting resear<strong>ch</strong> fields in mo<strong>der</strong>n astrophysics, but also key elements of project<br />
planning and management will be actively applied within our group.<br />
Working language is English.<br />
Leitung<br />
Teilnehmer<br />
Dr. Sas<strong>ch</strong>a P. Quanz<br />
Institut für Astronomie, ETH Züri<strong>ch</strong><br />
Dr. Adam Amara<br />
Institut für Astronomie, ETH Züri<strong>ch</strong><br />
Studierende natur- und ingenieurwissens<strong>ch</strong>aftli<strong>ch</strong>er Fä<strong>ch</strong>er mit Interesse<br />
für Astrophysik<br />
Literatur Exoplanets, hg. von S. Seager, University of Arizona Press 2010.<br />
Seager, S./Deming, D., Exoplanet Atmospheres (2010): http://<br />
arxiv.org/abs/1005.4037<br />
Mayor, M. et al., The HARPS Sear<strong>ch</strong> for Southern Extrasolar Planets<br />
XXXIV: Occurrence, Mass Distribution, and Orbital Properties<br />
of Super-Earths and Neptune-mass Planets (2011): http://<br />
arxiv.org/abs/1109.2497<br />
Batalha, N.M. et al., Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler III:<br />
Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data (2012): http://arxiv.org/<br />
abs/1202.5852<br />
Akademie I Leysin 17
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