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Priority Programme "Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets" (SPP 1992)
Termin:
25.10.2016
Fördergeber:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
The Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has established the Priority Programme "Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets" (SPP 1992). The programme is designed to run for six years; the present call invites proposals for the first three-year funding period.
One of the most exciting recent discoveries in astronomy is the existence of a huge variety of extrasolar planets orbiting other stars, including numerous multi-planet systems. This Priority Programme aims to explore such diversity and understand its origins. The programme wants to make substantial contributions to answering the following fundamental questions:
- What does the diversity of exoplanets tell us about their formation processes and the evolution of planets and planetary systems?
- What can we learn about the astrophysical conditions necessary to harbour life and are these con-ditions common in our Milky Way?
To understand the diversity and complexity of exoplanets requires combined efforts across disci-plines, linking observational planet detection and characterisation to theory. Science areas addressed in this Priority Programme therefore include:
- the detection of exoplanets and observational characterisation of their properties (e.g. orbit, mass, radius, atmosphere); and
- the understanding of exoplanet properties and diversity in terms of atmospheres, planetary interiors, habitability, formation and evolution processes.
The major observational data basis for this Priority Programme will result from national and interna-tional ground- and space-based projects with strong German participations, data becoming publicly available during the programme, and from major observatories. This programme will focus the Ger-man exoplanet science community to explore the new data by driving scientific data exploitation, triggering dedicated follow-up observations for further characterisation, and by developing the related theory needed to answer the above mentioned scientific questions.
The Priority Programme wants to support projects which have a direct relationship to observational exoplanetary data which will become available within. A goal of the programme is to support cooperations across disciplines and teams.
Proposals must be submitted no later than 25 October 2016 via the DFG's electronic submission system "elan", selecting "SPP 1992". A proposal template is available on the website of the Priority Programme.
A colloquium and a review panel meeting are planned for February 2017.
For scientific inquiries concerning the scope of the Priority Programme, please contact the pro-gramme's coordinator:
Professor Dr. Heike Rauer, Technische Universität Berlin, Zentrum für Astronomie und Astrophysik,
phone +49 30 314-23734, heike.rauer@dlr.de
For funding enquiries please contact:Dr. Stefan Krückeberg, DFG, phone +49 228 885-2477, stefan.krueckeberg@dfg.de
For administrative enquiries please contact: Sigrid Gärtner, DFG, phone: +49 228 885-2310, sigrid.gaertner@dfg.de
Weitere Informationen:
http://dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/ausschreibungen/info_wissenschaft_16_46/index.html
One of the most exciting recent discoveries in astronomy is the existence of a huge variety of extrasolar planets orbiting other stars, including numerous multi-planet systems. This Priority Programme aims to explore such diversity and understand its origins. The programme wants to make substantial contributions to answering the following fundamental questions:
- What does the diversity of exoplanets tell us about their formation processes and the evolution of planets and planetary systems?
- What can we learn about the astrophysical conditions necessary to harbour life and are these con-ditions common in our Milky Way?
To understand the diversity and complexity of exoplanets requires combined efforts across disci-plines, linking observational planet detection and characterisation to theory. Science areas addressed in this Priority Programme therefore include:
- the detection of exoplanets and observational characterisation of their properties (e.g. orbit, mass, radius, atmosphere); and
- the understanding of exoplanet properties and diversity in terms of atmospheres, planetary interiors, habitability, formation and evolution processes.
The major observational data basis for this Priority Programme will result from national and interna-tional ground- and space-based projects with strong German participations, data becoming publicly available during the programme, and from major observatories. This programme will focus the Ger-man exoplanet science community to explore the new data by driving scientific data exploitation, triggering dedicated follow-up observations for further characterisation, and by developing the related theory needed to answer the above mentioned scientific questions.
The Priority Programme wants to support projects which have a direct relationship to observational exoplanetary data which will become available within. A goal of the programme is to support cooperations across disciplines and teams.
Proposals must be submitted no later than 25 October 2016 via the DFG's electronic submission system "elan", selecting "SPP 1992". A proposal template is available on the website of the Priority Programme.
A colloquium and a review panel meeting are planned for February 2017.
For scientific inquiries concerning the scope of the Priority Programme, please contact the pro-gramme's coordinator:
Professor Dr. Heike Rauer, Technische Universität Berlin, Zentrum für Astronomie und Astrophysik,
phone +49 30 314-23734, heike.rauer@dlr.de
For funding enquiries please contact:Dr. Stefan Krückeberg, DFG, phone +49 228 885-2477, stefan.krueckeberg@dfg.de
For administrative enquiries please contact: Sigrid Gärtner, DFG, phone: +49 228 885-2310, sigrid.gaertner@dfg.de
Weitere Informationen:
http://dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/ausschreibungen/info_wissenschaft_16_46/index.html