Annonce
PLATO Spec, le nouvel instrument de l'Observatoire de La Silla de l'ESO, est maintenant prêt pour la recherche d'exoplanètes
16 décembre 2024
Vingt ans après sa mise hors service, le télescope de 1,52 m de l'ESO, installé à l'Observatoire de La Silla au Chili, a retrouvé une nouvelle vie. Le télescope, vieux de 50 ans, a été rénové en 2022 et, grâce à ce nouvel instrument, il est désormais prêt à faire de nouvelles découvertes astronomiques de pointe.
PLATO Spec, qui effectuera des observations en lumière visible, a été conçu pour détecter les étoiles abritant des exoplanètes potentielles, c'est-à-dire des planètes en orbite autour d'étoiles autres que le Soleil. L'instrument permettra de repérer les étoiles les plus prometteuses abritant des exoplanètes potentielles en détectant les changements dans la lumière de l'étoile hôte, qui oscille sous l'effet de l'attraction gravitationnelle de la planète. L'instrument est si précis qu'il pourra détecter des changements de vitesse de l'étoile jusqu'à 3 m/s, ce qui équivaut à une personne courant à une vitesse modeste.
Le projet a été développé par le consortium PLATO Spec, qui comprend l'Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (responsable de la modernisation du télescope et de la partie frontale), le German Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg (unité d'étalonnage), la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (spectrographe), l'Universidad Adolfo Ibañez de Chile (traitement des données et pipeline), ainsi que d'autres partenaires stratégiques. Dans le cadre de ce projet, le télescope de 1,52 m de l'ESO, qui n'était plus utilisé depuis 2003, a été modernisé avec un instrument de pointe qui peut être utilisé à distance.
Le spectrographe assistera les observatoires spatiaux dans leur recherche d'exoplanètes, notamment, pour l'Agence Spatiale Européenne, la mission actuelle PLATO et la mission à venir ARIEL. PLATO Spec pourra confirmer leurs détections de potentielles exoplanètes de la taille de Jupiter à Neptune et étudier leurs atmosphères. Ses observations permettront également de mieux comprendre la physique et le mouvement des étoiles, notamment de mesurer le niveau d'activité d'une étoile et son évolution dans le temps.
Le consortium sera responsable de 90 % du temps d'utilisation du télescope, 10 % des observations étant confiées à des astronomes basés au Chili. Après une période d'exclusivité, toutes les données seront mises à la disposition de la communauté scientifique par l'intermédiaire des archives scientifiques de l'ESO.
Plus d'informations
Le projet est partiellement financé par l'Agence Nationale Chilienne pour la Recherche et le Développement (ANID).
Liens
- PLATO Spec
- Le télescope de 1.52 mètre de l'ESO
- Communiqué de presse de l'Académie Tchèque des Sciences
Contacts
Petr Kabáth
PLATO Spec Principal Investigator, Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Ondřejov, Czechia
Email: kabath@asu.cas.cz
Artie Hatzes
PLATO Spec Team Member, Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg
Tautenburg, Germany
E-Mail: artie@tls-tautenburg.de
Leonardo Vanzi
PLATO Spec Team Member, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
E-Mail: lvanzi@uc.cl
Bárbara Ferreira
ESO Media Manager
Garching bei München, Germany
Tel: +49 89 3200 6670
Email: press@eso.org
À propos de l'annonce
| Identification: | ann24019 |
Images
Our use of Cookies
We use cookies that are essential for accessing our websites and using our services. We also use cookies to analyse, measure and improve our websites’ performance, to enable content sharing via social media and to display media content hosted on third-party platforms.
ESO Cookies Policy
The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities for astronomy.
This Cookies Policy is intended to provide clarity by outlining the cookies used on the ESO public websites, their functions, the options you have for controlling them, and the ways you can contact us for additional details.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device by websites you visit. They serve various purposes, such as remembering login credentials and preferences and enhance your browsing experience.
Categories of cookies we use
Essential cookies (always active): These cookies are strictly necessary for the proper functioning of our website. Without these cookies, the website cannot operate correctly, and certain services, such as logging in or accessing secure areas, may not be available; because they are essential for the website’s operation, they cannot be disabled.
Functional Cookies: These cookies enhance your browsing experience by enabling additional features and personalization, such as remembering your preferences and settings. While not strictly necessary for the website to function, they improve usability and convenience; these cookies are only placed if you provide your consent.
Analytics cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors interact with our website, such as which pages are visited most often and how users navigate the site. This data helps us improve website performance, optimize content, and enhance the user experience; these cookies are only placed if you provide your consent. We use the following analytics cookies.
Matomo Cookies:
This website uses Matomo (formerly Piwik), an open source software which enables the statistical analysis of website visits. Matomo uses cookies (text files) which are saved on your computer and which allow us to analyze how you use our website. The website user information generated by the cookies will only be saved on the servers of our IT Department. We use this information to analyze www.eso.org visits and to prepare reports on website activities. These data will not be disclosed to third parties.
On behalf of ESO, Matomo will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Matomo cookies settings:
Additional Third-party cookies on ESO websites: some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube.
Such third-party services are outside of ESO control and may, at any time, change their terms of service, use of cookies, etc.
YouTube: Some videos on the ESO website are embedded from ESO’s official YouTube channel. We have enabled YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode, meaning that no cookies are set unless the user actively clicks on the video to play it. Additionally, in this mode, YouTube does not store any personally identifiable cookie data for embedded video playbacks. For more details, please refer to YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
Cookies can also be classified based on the following elements.
Regarding the domain, there are:
- First-party cookies, set by the website you are currently visiting. They are stored by the same domain that you are browsing and are used to enhance your experience on that site;
- Third-party cookies, set by a domain other than the one you are currently visiting.
As for their duration, cookies can be:
- Browser-session cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser;
- Stored cookies, which stay on the user's device for a predetermined period of time.
How to manage cookies
Cookie settings: You can modify your cookie choices for the ESO webpages at any time by clicking on the link Cookie settings at the bottom of any page.
In your browser: If you wish to delete cookies or instruct your browser to delete or block cookies by default, please visit the help pages of your browser:
Please be aware that if you delete or decline cookies, certain functionalities of our website may be not be available and your browsing experience may be affected.
You can set most browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in, shop check out).
Updates to the ESO Cookies Policy
The ESO Cookies Policy may be subject to future updates, which will be made available on this page.
Additional information
For any queries related to cookies, please contact: pdprATesoDOTorg.
As ESO public webpages are managed by our Department of Communication, your questions will be dealt with the support of the said Department.