In June 2017, an international symposium on space weather and the habitable zone of the planet was held at Kyoto University, and the extrasolar planet database "ExoKyoto" developed and operated by Professor Yosuke Yamashiki of the General Survival Academy (Shinshukan) and others. The latest research results based on were announced.
Exo Kyoto, which was released on the Web in 2016, is a new habitable zone (area where life can live) calculation method and multiple based on the information and results of stellar observations accumulated by Professor Yamashiki and others. The world's first public platform where you can compare the definitions of.In addition to the more than 3,500 exoplanets already discovered, it has a database of more than 120,000 stars, and it is possible to calculate the habitable zone for all of them.
Shiga Prefectural Moriyama High School cooperated in the construction of this ExoKyoto database.The school has been designated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as a base school for fostering global leaders (Super Global High School), and the "Habitable Study Group" was established as one of its efforts.Since the original members were members of the art club, I decided to draw an imaginary map of an exoplanet at the request of Professor Yamashiki.This planetary painting was also presented at NASA by Professor Yamashiki and was well received.
Professor Yamashiki's specialty is environmental engineering, and ExoKyoto's database started from his hobby. In December 2017, as an important initiative for observing and exploring exoplanets, we talked with Dr. Irapedian, a senior researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and cooperated in improving the stellar flare impact assessment module. ..In the future, it is expected to contribute to the discovery of unknown exoplanets and become a useful tool for exoplanet observations for experts and amateur astronomers.
reference:[Exosolar Planet`s Catalog produced by Kyoto University] EXOK yoto
