The stellar characterisation WG is composed by scientists specialised in different field of the stellar characterisation. The team is mostly composed by European members, with collaborations from NASA and JPL (US).
The working group is divided in different sub-working groups, each one responsible for determining different sets of stellar parameters.
The Team works closely in synergy within other WG within the Ariel Consortium and with other consortia within and outside Europe.
Camilla coordinates the activities between the various sub-WGs and all the synergies within and beyond the Ariel consortium.
Observations:
Monica Rainer (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Brera, Italy )
Kris Helminiak (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Toruń, Poland)
Atmospheric parameters: Laura Magrini (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy)
Elemental abundances: Elisa Delgado Mena (Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain)
Age, Mass, Radius:
Tiago Campante (Universidade do Porto, Oporto, Portugal)
Andy Moya (University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain)
Activity indexes: Serena Benatti (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy)
The working group closely works with other working groups in the Ariel consortium. In particular our synergies are with:
The planetary formation WG: Diego Turrini (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Turin, Italy).
The stellar activity WG:
Giusi Micela (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy).
Bart Vandenbussche (KU Leuven, Leuven Belgium).
Ignasi Ribas (IEEC– CSIC, Spain).
The planetary mass WG:
Giusi Micela (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy).
Lars Buchave (DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark)
The Simulations WG: Billy Edwards (SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research).
ExoClock: Angelos Tsiaras (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece).
Anastasia Kokori (University College London, London, UK).
The star-planet interaction & activity diagnostics sub-WG: Sudeshna Boro Saikia (Department of Astrophysics, Vienna, Austria).
Stellar surface modelling sub-WG: Stefano Bellotti (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands).
The SPICA consortium - Roxanne Ligi (Observatoire de la cote d'Azure, Nice, France)
Denis Mourard (Observatoire de la cote d'Azure, Nice, France)
Andrea Chiavassa (Observatoire de la cote d'Azure, Nice, France)
The CARMENES consortium, in particular the Stellar Parameters WP.
Observatori del Montsec - Gemma Domènech Rams
David W. Latham (Harvard CFA, Cambridge, MA, USA)
David Ciardi (Caltech/IPAC - NASA Exoplanet Science Institute)
George Helou (Caltech/IPAC)
Douglas Hudgins (NASA HQ)
Norio Narita (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
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