Mikko Tuomi

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Mikko Tuomi
Born (1979-06-17) 17 June 1979 (age 45)
Espoo, Finland [1]
CitizenshipFinland
Alma mater University of Turku (Ph.D.)
Political party Left Alliance
Scientific career
Fields Astronomy
Institutions University of Turku
University of Hertfordshire
Thesis Multidata inverse problems and Bayesian solution methods in astronomy  (2013)
Doctoral advisor Harry Lehto
Esko Valtaoja

Mikko Tuomi (born 17 June 1979) is a Finnish astronomer most known for his contributions to the discovery of the exoplanet Proxima Centauri b together with other scientists at the University of Hertfordshire. Other exoplanets to whose discovery or study Tuomi has contributed include HD 40307, [2] HD 154857 c, [3] Kapteyn c, [4] Gliese 682 c, [5] HD 154857, [3] Gliese 221, [6] Gliese 581 g [7] and the planetary system orbiting Tau Ceti. [8]

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Publications

Mikko Tuomi has contributed to many cosmologist research articles including:

Discoveries

Mikko Tuomi helped discover the Proxima Centauri b planet by observing the gravitational tug of Proxima Centauri's star, Proxima Centauri. [13]

Political career

Tuomi participated in the concurrent 2025 Finnish municipal elections and 2025 Finnish county elections in the Turku constituency as a member of the Left Alliance. [14] He received 132 and 113 votes respectively. [15] [16]

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References

  1. ↑ Milla Ollikainen (February 10, 2017). "Elämää avaruudessa? Mikko Tuomi löysi planeetan" (in Finnish). Retrieved February 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. 1 2 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
  4. ↑ 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).
  5. ↑ 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).
  6. ↑ A new cold sub-Saturnian candidate planet orbiting GJ 221: Mikko Tuomi, January 16, 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. ↑ Tuomi, M.; et al. (March 2013). "Signals embedded in the radial velocity noise: Periodic variations in the Tau Ceti velocities". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 551 (preprint): A79. arXiv: 1212.4277 . Bibcode:2012yCat..35510079T. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220509.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ "Vaalikone - Mikko Tuomi" (in Finnish). MTVuutiset.
  15. ↑ "Mikko Tuomi kuntavaaleissa 2025" (in Finnish). YLE.
  16. ↑ "Mikko Tuomi aluevaaleissa 2025" (in Finnish). YLE.
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