Mikko Tuomi

Mikko Tuomi
Born
Espoo, Finland[1]
CitizenshipFinland
Alma materUniversity of Turku
Known for
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Turku
University of Hertfordshire
ThesisMultidata inverse problems and Bayesian solution methods in astronomy (2013)
Doctoral advisorHarry Lehto
Esko Valtaoja

Mikko Tuomi is a Finnish astronomer from the University of Hertfordshire, most known for his contributions to the discovery of a number of exoplanets, among them the Proxima Centauri b which orbits the closest star to the Sun. Mikko Tuomi was the first to find indications of the existence of Proxima Centauri b in archival observation data.[2] Other exoplanets to whose discovery or study Tuomi has contributed include HD 40307,[3] HD 154857 c,[4] Kapteyn c,[5] Gliese 682 c,[6] HD 154857,[4] Gliese 221,[7] Gliese 581 g[8] and the planetary system orbiting Tau Ceti.[9] He has led the development of new data analysis techniques for distinguishing observations caused by natural activity of the star and those caused by planets orbiting them.[10]

  1. ^ Milla Ollikainen (February 10, 2017). "Elämää avaruudessa? Mikko Tuomi löysi planeetan" (in Finnish). Retrieved February 21, 2020.
  2. ^ Astronomer, Dr Sten Odenwald; Consortium, NASA Heliophysics Education (2016-08-26). "Proxima Centauri b: Earth-sized? Earth-like? Or Habitable?". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2016-08-28.
  3. ^ Tuomi, Mikko; Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Gerlach, Enrico; Jones, Hugh R. A.; Reiners, Ansgar; Rivera, Eugenio J.; Vogt, Steven S.; Butler, R. Paul (17 December 2012). "Habitable-zone super-Earth candidate in a six-planet system around the K2.5V star HD 40307". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 549: A48. arXiv:1211.1617. Bibcode:2013A&A...549A..48T. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220268.
  4. ^ a b The Anglo-Australian Planet Search. XXIII. Two New Jupiter Analogs: Robert A. Wittenmyer, Jonathan Horner, C.G. Tinney, R.P. Butler, H.R.A. Jones, Mikko Tuomi, G.S. Salter, B.D. Carter, F. Elliott Koch, S.J. O'Toole, J. Bailey, D. Wright
  5. ^ Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Pamela Arriagada, Mikko Tuomi, Mathias Zechmeister, James S. Jenkins, Aviv Ofir, Stefan Dreizler, Enrico Gerlach, Chris J. Marvin, Ansgar Reiners, Sandra V. Jeffers, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, Pedro J. Amado, Cristina Rodríguez-López, Zaira M. Berdiñas, Julian Morin, Jeff D. Crane, Stephen A. Shectman, Ian B. Thompson, Matías Díaz, Eugenio Rivera, Luis F. Sarmiento, Hugh R.A. Jones, Two planets around Kapteyn's star : a cold and a temperate super-Earth orbiting the nearest halo red-dwarf. (Cornell University 3 June 2014).
  6. ^ Mikko Tuomi, Hugh R. A. Jones, John R. Barnes, Guillem Anglada-Escudé, James S. Jenkins, Bayesian search for low-mass planets around nearby M dwarfs. Estimates for occurrence rate based on global detectability statistics (Submitted on 3 Mar 2014).
  7. ^ A new cold sub-Saturnian candidate planet orbiting GJ 221: Mikko Tuomi, January 16, 2014
  8. ^ Mikko Tuomi (2011). "Bayesian re-analysis of the radial velocities of Gliese 581. Evidence in favour of only four planetary companions". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 528: L5. arXiv:1102.3314. Bibcode:2011A&A...528L...5T. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201015995.
  9. ^ Tuomi, M.; et al. (March 2013). "Signals embedded in the radial velocity noise: Periodic variations in the Tau Ceti velocities". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 551 (preprint): A79. arXiv:1212.4277. Bibcode:2012yCat..35510079T. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220509.
  10. ^ Stephens, Tim: Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star. Phys.org, August 9, 2017.