Final program

 Wednesday, October 24, 2018

09:00 - 09:30  The PLATO mission - Don Pollacco/Heike Rauer

09:30 - 13:00 Session: Impacts of stellar activity on planet detection and candidate ranking  - Chair: Juan Cabrera

09:30 - 10:05 Planet detection in presence of stellar noise, review of methods - Sascha Grziwa (invited)

10:05 - 10:35 The Variable Variability of Stars: Four Years of Kepler - David Ciardi

10:35 - 10:55 Coffee break

10:55 - 11:30 the Impact of Stellar Variability on the Detection of Transiting Earth-like Planets - Jon Jenkins

11:30 - 12:00 Detection of extrasolar moons in the presence of stellar variability - Rene Heller

12:00 - 12:30 Discussion

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

 

14:00 - 18:00 Session: Planet characterization in presence of stellar activity - Chair: Szilard Csizmadia

14:00 - 14:35 Characterization of long-period small planets in presence of stellar activity - Susana Barros (invited)

14:35 - 15:05 Robust Transiting Exoplanet Radii in the Presence of Starspots - Morris Brett

15:05 - 15:35 Exoplanet and stellar activity: white light vs. multicolor photometry - Mahmouzedra Oshagh

15:35 - 16:10 Stellar oscillation and planet characterization: what asteroseismology can do for small planet characterization - Vincent Van Eylen (invited)

16:10 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:00 Stellar ages and planetary evolution: the CHRONOS initiative - David Barrado

17:00 - 17:30 Advantages of the multicolour photometry in characterisation of exoplanets - Valeriy Vasilyev

17:30 - 17:50 Measuring starspot physical properties with Kepler/K2 and high resolution near IR spectroscopy - Michael Gully-Santiago

17:50 - 18:20 Discussion

 

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Thursday, October 25, 2018

09:00 - 12:30 Session: Theory and modelling of stellar activity and variability - Chair: Isabella Pagano

09:00 - 09:30 Methods to remove stellar activity for planet detection - Suzanne Aigrain (invited)

09:30 - 10:00 Space-borne photometry, stellar activity, and small planets - Nuccio Lanza (invited)

10:00 - 10:20 TOSC: an algorithm for the tomography of spotted transit chords - Gaetano Scandariato

10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break

10:40 - 11:10 Modelling stellar activity and its effects on planet detection - Yvonne Unruh (invited)

11:10 - 11:40 Applying results on stellar variability from convection simulations to exoplanet detection - Heather Cegla (invited)

11:40 - 12:00 Testing the GPS method in the Sun as a Kepler Star - Eliana M. Amazo-Gómez

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break

 

13:30 - 13:50 Understanding the Sun to discover Earth-twin planets with the HARPS-N Solar Telescope - Luca Malavolta

13:50 - 14:10 Three years of solar radial velocities on the approach to solar minimum - Andrew Collier-Cameron

14:10 - 14:45 Discussion  

14:45 - 18:00 Session: Effect of stellar activity on planetary evolution and habitability - Chair: Richard Nelson

14:45 - 15:15 Evolution of primary H/He atmospheres due to stellar activity - Christoph Mordasini (invited)

15:15 - 15:45 Stellar activity as a driving force behind the loss processes from atmospheres of terrestrial planets - Kristina Kislyakova (invited)

15:45 - 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 - 16:40  Effect of stellar variability on terrestrial planet atmospheres - Lee Grenfell (invited)

16:40 - 17:00 Atmospheric characterization of exoplanets around active stars - Sara Khalafinejad

17:00 - 17:20  Radial Velocity support to K2 and TESS - David Armstrong

17:20 - 18:00 Discussion

 

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Friday, October 26, 2018

09:00 - 10:45  Session: Radial Follow-up : lessons learned and strategy to mitigate stellar effects - Chair Alexandre Santerne

09:00 - 09:20 Radial Velocity in support to K2 and TESS data - Davide Gandolfi

09:20 - 9:40  High precision ir spectroscopy for RV studies - Ignasi Ribas 

9:40 - 10:00  Detecting Radial Velocity Variations due to Starspot Jitter in the CARMENES Survey for Exoplanets - Sepideh Sadegi     

10:00 - 12:40 Session: New RV facilities and new stellar effects diagnostics

10:00 - 10:30 SPIROU new spectropolarimeter - Jean-François Donati

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30 ESPRESSO at the level of 10 cm/s - Francesco Pepe

11:30 - 11:50 Strongly mitigating the stellar activity signal in radial velocity - Xavier Dumusque

11:50 - 12:10 PLATOSPec new RV follow-up facility - Petr Kabath

12:10 - 12:40   Discussion

12:40-14:00 Lunch break


14:00 - 16:40  Session:  Atmospheric characterization and impact of stellar effects - Chair Stéphane Udry

14:00 - 14:30 The effect of stellar variability on characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with high resolution spectroscopy - Jayne Birkby

14:30 - 15:00  The effect of stellar variability on characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with transmission and emission spectroscopy from space   -  Jean-Michel Desert 

15:00 - 15:20  Stellar contributions to the line profiles of high-resolution transmission spectra of exoplanets - Francesco Borsa   

15:20 - 15:40 Disentangling the albedo of the exoplanet from the stellar activityLuisa Maria Serrano

15:40 - 16:40  Discussion / Summary / Next steps / Conclusions

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