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Understanding Planet Formation via Microlensing


National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)


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Pasadena, CA | United States


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The Roman Space Telescope - the upcoming astrophysics flagship mission - will conduct a survey of exoplanets using microlensing.  Roughly 1000 exoplanets will be detected at ~1-10 AU separations, enabling a Kepler-like statistical analysis of these central planet-forming locations.  While the mission has formal requirements for detecting planets down to Mars masses, the interpretation of these detections remains an unsolved problem.  The NPP fellow will use theoretical modeling techniques, e.g. population synthesis, to provide constraints on the physics of planet formation based on simulated Roman observations (and, eventually, based on the real data).

Field of Science: Astrophysics

Advisors:

Geoffrey Bryden
[email protected]
818-393-4692

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