Assignment task:
First Paragraph: TESS Exoplanet Mission
- What does TESS stand for?
- What type of stars is TESS focusing on?
- What technique will TESS use to detect exoplanets? Describe this exoplanet detection technique. What properties of the planet can you learn from this exoplanet detection technique?
- Interesting systems found by TESS will be able to be followed up by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). What part of the exoplanet will JWST study?
- Interesting systems found by TESS will also be able to be followed up by ground telescopes on the Earth. These ground bases telescopes study these systems with the Doppler method. What property of the star can ground telescopes measure for the Earth?
- Combining measurements from TESS and ground based telescopes, what property of an exoplanet can astronomers measure? Why is it important to measure this property of the exoplanet?
Second Paragraph: TOI 700 Exoplanet System
- Why is this exoplanet system interesting?
- Why type of star are the planets orbiting in this system? How does the mass, size, and temperature of this star compare to our Sun?
- How many planets are in this exoplanet system?
- What is the composition of each of these planets?
- Discuss the properties of the planet in the Habitable zone. Also, discuss the models Astronomers produced for the planet in the Habitable zone.