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In South Africa, our group will build a wide FOV 1.8m telescope with the world largest class NIR camera to perform world's first NIR microlensing surveys for exoplanets. This is achieved by loaning a state-of-the-art large size NIR detector from Roman team, NASA.
This PRIME telescope is designed to perform world's first NIR (JH-band) microlensing surveys for exoplanets in galactic center to dramatically increase detections of exoplanets.
Then, we can detect dozens of exoplanets including Earth-mass planet, and free floating planets too.
This will provide answers to questions about planet formation including Earth-mass planets and evolutional process. |
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| We also conduct world's first estimate of planet frequency in galactic center region where stars are highly crowded in order to study planet frequency in a different environment.
Obtaining these data enable us to achieve our science goals as well as to make significant contributions to NASA by optimizing Roman fields in advance. |
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| Furthermore, as off-bulge season sciences, transit search for M-dwarfs and search of counterparts of high-z GRB and GW will be carried out. In future, we will conduct radial velocity survey for giant planets around M-dwarf with H-band spectrograph.
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