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Mikko Tuomi

Mikko Tuomi

Finnish astronomer who contributed to the discoveries of some exoplanets


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]

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Publications

Mikko Tuomi has contributed to many cosmologist research articles including:

  • "A Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone"[11]
  • "Two planets around Kapteyn's star: A cold and a temperate super-Earth orbiting the nearest halo red dwarf"[12]
  • "Bayesian search for low-mass planets around nearby M. draws. Estimates for occurrence rate based on global detestability statistics"[13]
  • "A dynamically-packed planetary system around GJ667C with three super-Earths in its habitable zone"[14]

Discoveries

Mikko Tuomi helped discover the Proxima Centauri b planet by observing the gravitational tug of Proxima Centauri's star, Proxima Centauri.[2]

See also


References

  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. 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. 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.
  8. Wittenmyer, Robert A.; Tuomi, Mikko; Butler, R. P.; Jones, H. R. A.; Anglada-Escude, Guillem; Horner, Jonathan; Tinney, C. G.; Marshall, J. P.; Carter, B. D. (2014-06-21). "GJ 832c: A Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone". The Astrophysical Journal. 791 (2): 114. arXiv:1406.5587. Bibcode:2014ApJ...791..114W. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/791/2/114. ISSN 0004-637X.
  9. Anglada-Escude, G.; Arriagada, P.; Tuomi, M.; Zechmeister, M.; Jenkins, J. S.; Ofir, A.; Dreizler, S.; Gerlach, E.; Marvin, C. J. (2014-06-03). "Two planets around Kapteyn's star: a cold and a temperate super-Earth orbiting the nearest halo red dwarf". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 443 (1): L89–L93. arXiv:1406.0818. Bibcode:2014MNRAS.443L..89A. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slu076. ISSN 1745-3925.
  10. Tuomi, M.; Jones, H. R. A.; Barnes, J. R.; Anglada-Escude, G.; Jenkins, J. S. (2014-03-03). "Bayesian search for low-mass planets around nearby M dwarfs - estimates for occurrence rate based on global detectability statistics". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 441 (2): 1545–1569. arXiv:1403.0430. Bibcode:2014MNRAS.441.1545T. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu358. ISSN 0035-8711.
  11. Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Tuomi, Mikko; Gerlach, Enrico; Barnes, Rory; Heller, René; Jenkins, James S.; Wende, Sebastian; Vogt, Steven S.; Butler, R. Paul (2013-06-25). "A dynamically-packed planetary system around GJ 667C with three super-Earths in its habitable zone". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 556: A126. arXiv:1306.6074. Bibcode:2013A&A...556A.126A. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201321331. ISSN 0004-6361.

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