宇宙科学談話会

ISAS Space Science Colloquium & Space Science Seminar

ENGLISH

TMT science cases and the project status

AOKI Wako(青木 和光)
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan(NAOJ)

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project is an international collaboration of five countries to construct an optical/infrared extremely large telescope. It will achieve more than three times higher resolving power and 100 times higher sensitivity for point sources than the current large telescopes. This will significantly enhance studies of extrasolar planets to enable direct imaging of earth-like planets and determining compositions of their atmospheres that might include signatures of life. TMT will also explore the light from first stars in distant galaxies and determine elements produced by explosions studied by multi-messenger astronomy. The project expects collaborations with space sciences and Solar System missions in 2030s and beyond. The TMT project has been engaging community in Hawaii to have understanding for astronomy and the telescope, having remarkable progress in dialogues in the community. Founding a new management organization involving native Hawaiians was recently approved by Hawaii state legislature. Following the recommendations in the Decadal Survey, NSF will start reviewing process for the US-ELT project including TMT. The status and prospect of the project are presented in this seminar.

A 2F Conf. room(1236) / 研究管理棟2階会議場(1236号室)、Via Zoom / Zoom 開催