Callingham Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2024

Radio stars and exoplanets: Discovering the space weather of other worlds

A fundamental goal of astronomy in the coming decades is to determine whether a planet around another star could be habitable. An important piece in this habitability puzzle is the environmental conditions of an exoplanet: the 'space weather' it experiences. However, determining the space weather conditions around a star has been challenging because of the limited sensitivity of low-frequency radio telescopes. A low-frequency radio detection of a star or exoplanet can provide evidence of plasma ejection from the star, or a direct measurement of an exoplanet's magnetic field strength. Such information determines if a planet's atmosphere can survive the onslaught of stellar activity.…

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