Detecting and Characterizing Exoplanets with Tess: Nasa’s New Exoplanet Hunter | Tansu Daylan

TÜBİTAK TBAE Public Lecture Series

Detecting and Characterizing Exoplanets with Tess: Nasa’s New Exoplanet Hunter

Speaker: Tansu Daylan (MIT, USA)

ABSTRACT: We did not have any observational evidence for planets outside our Solar system until about 30 years ago. Nowadays, however, we can study the atmospheric and structural characteristics as well as the abundance of these so-called “exoplanets”. These research efforts both help us understand the origins of our own planet and the Solar system and increases our hopes of finding Earth’s twin. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a new generation telescope that was launched into space for this purpose. It is expected that the data it collects will allow thousands of exoplanets close to our Solar system to be discovered.