[Alumnos] Coloquios de los miércoles-Charla de la Dra Andrea Fortier-HOY 12:45hs salón Meridiano

[Ciencia y Técnica-FCAGLP]

Hoy tendrá lugar la charla de la Dra Andrea Fortier a las 13hs., en el
salón Meridiano.

Con el fin de poder degustar "café y masitas" e iniciar puntualmente  
con el coloquio, los esperamos a las 12:45hs!

Título: "CHEOPS: CHaracterizing ExOPlanet Satellite. Hacia la  
caracterización de
exoplanetas"
Abstract:
The Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) will be the first  
mission dedicated to search for transits by means of ultrahigh  
precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets. By  
being able to point at nearly any location on the sky, this follow-up  
mission will provide the unique capability of determining accurate  
radii for a subset of those planets for which the mass has already  
been estimated from ground-based spectroscopic surveys. It will also  
provide precise radii for new planets discovered by the next  
generation transit surveys (such as NGTS). Focusing on Neptunes and  
super-Earths around bright stars, CHEOPS will moreover identify golden  
targets for detailed characterization with spectrographs equipping  
future large telescopes in space and on the ground. CHEOPS has been  
recently selected as the European Space Agency's first "small"-class  
mission as well as the next European exoplanet mission. It is  
scheduled for a launch in 2017.

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