The discovery of new worlds has driven efforts to characterize in detail the properties of their host stars. For a given planet hosting star, we want to know its size, mass, age, effective temperature, metallicity, activity cycle and any other physical features that would aid in understanding the corresponding planetary system. Fortuitously, much of the characterization can be done using the same data that enabled the initial planet discoveries. The spectra obtained from radial velocity surveys, and the photometry and imaging data from transit and microlensing surveys, contain a wealth of information about the host stars' atmospheres, interiors and prior evolution.
The goal of this session is to highlight and review some of the results concerning stellar science from the past 20 years of planet surveys, to promote dialogue to encourage new ideas about existing and future planet survey data, and to provide answers to the following questions:
1) What stellar information can we infer from RV, transit, microlensing and direct detection data?
2) What are the current caveats, limitations and challenges when interpreting the results?
The goal of this session is to highlight and review some of the results concerning stellar science from the past 20 years of planet surveys, to promote dialogue to encourage new ideas about existing and future planet survey data, and to provide answers to the following questions:
1) What stellar information can we infer from RV, transit, microlensing and direct detection data?
2) What are the current caveats, limitations and challenges when interpreting the results?
3)How will new instruments and missions transform our understanding of cool stars?
Schedule*
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TIME |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
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14:00-14:10 |
Babs/Phil/Isabelle |
Introduction |
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14:10-14:30 |
Isabelle Boisse |
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14:30-14:50 |
Jason Dittmann |
Trigonometric Parallaxes and the Inferred Properties for 1507 mid-to-late M-dwarfs from the MEarth Planet Survey |
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14:50-15:10 |
Jennifer Yee |
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15:10-15:30 |
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POSTER POP-UP |
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15:30-16:15 |
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Coffee Break |
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16:15-16:25 |
Jean-François Donati |
SPIRou : a nIR spectropolarimeter & high-precision velocimeter for the CFHT |
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16:25-16:45 |
Scott Fleming | Near-Infrared Radial Velocities of Hundreds of Kepler Eclipsing Binaries With APOGEE |
16:45-16:55 |
Stefanie Raetz |
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16:55-17:05 |
Anna-Lea Lesage |
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17:05-17:15 |
Alex Binks |
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17:15-17:45 |
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PANEL DISCUSSION |
*Due to unforeseen circumstances, Tsevi Mazeh could not make it to the conference, and his talk "Measuring 34,030 Rotation Periods of Kepler Field Stars with a New Autocorrelation Method and the Planet Connection" was cancelled.