"UH astronomers help uncover array of strange exoplanet worlds"
In a press release posted today, UH announced results from a collaboration between NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Keck Observaory on Mauna Kea.
“The TESS-Keck Survey demonstrates the very important role of ground-based observations for advancing our understanding of the Universe and in this case, planets outside our system”, said Dan Huber, an associate astronomer at IfA who co-authored the paper and is a co-principal investigator of the TESS-Keck Survey. “Space telescopes like TESS can tell us about the sizes of planets, but follow-up observations such as those obtained with Keck provide mass measurements that are required to learn about what these planets are made of.”
https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/2024/05/uh-as...et-worlds/
The following graphic, produced by Adam Makarenko, provides a nice summary of the exoplanets that were observed.
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In a press release posted today, UH announced results from a collaboration between NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Keck Observaory on Mauna Kea.
“The TESS-Keck Survey demonstrates the very important role of ground-based observations for advancing our understanding of the Universe and in this case, planets outside our system”, said Dan Huber, an associate astronomer at IfA who co-authored the paper and is a co-principal investigator of the TESS-Keck Survey. “Space telescopes like TESS can tell us about the sizes of planets, but follow-up observations such as those obtained with Keck provide mass measurements that are required to learn about what these planets are made of.”
https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/2024/05/uh-as...et-worlds/
The following graphic, produced by Adam Makarenko, provides a nice summary of the exoplanets that were observed.