Scientific Goals and Missions - JASMINE Project

Purpose

The JASMINE project participates in and contributes to the JASMINE mission of JAXA/ISAS, aiming to realize the world’s first near-infrared high-precision astrometry and time-series photometry.

Missions

The missions of this project are:

1. to contribute to scientific verification and development of the instruments and the data analysis software for the JASMINE mission of JAXA/ISAS; and
2. to provide the scientific community with a catalogue of physical information, including parallaxes, proper motions and light curves, for stars in the Galactic Center and time-series photometric data of candidate stars for exoplanetary systems, through an international framework under the leadership of JAXA/ISAS.

These contributions will be finalized in the System Definition Review (SDR) of JAXA/ISAS.

Primary Scientific Goals

The primary scientific goals of this project are:

1. to explore the Galactic nuclear region, which plays a key role in the formation of the Galaxy, by measuring the distances and the motions of stars;
2. to search for Earth-like exoplanets that are located in habitable zones and whose atmospheres can be observed, as promising targets for future life exploration.

Target Date

End of March 2028