Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru

"SEEDS" redirects here. Not to be confused with SeeDs, The Seeds, seeds, or SEED.
The Subaru Telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii.

Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) is a multi-year survey that used the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii in an effort to directly image extrasolar planets and protoplanetary/debris disks around hundreds of nearby stars.[1] SEEDS is a Japanese-led international project. It consists of some 120 researchers from a number of institutions in Japan, the U.S. and the EU.[2] The survey's headquarters is at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and led by Principal Investigator Motohide Tamura. The goals of the survey are to address the following key issues in the study of extrasolar planets and disks: the detection and census of exoplanets in the regions around solar-mass and massive stars; the evolution of protoplanetary disks and debris disks; and the link between exoplanets and circumstellar disks.[1]

  1. ^ a b Tamura, Motohide (August 2009). "Subaru Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with HiCIAO/AO188 (SEEDS)". AIP Conference Proceedings. 1158 (1): 11–16. Bibcode:2009AIPC.1158...11T. doi:10.1063/1.3215811.
  2. ^ TAMURA, Motohide (2016-02-10). "SEEDS — Strategic explorations of exoplanets and disks with the Subaru Telescope —". Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences. 92 (2): 45–55. Bibcode:2016PJAB...92...45T. doi:10.2183/pjab.92.45. ISSN 0386-2208. PMC 4906811. PMID 26860453.