Schedule / Recorded Talks

Day 1 — Mar. 8, 2021
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Times in Eastern Standard Time (UTC – 5:00)

09:00 – 09:10

Introduction to the Symposium

Néstor Espinoza & Benjamin Rackham

09:10 – 09:40

Stellar Photospheric & Chromospheric Heterogeneity

SAG21 Overview Talk

Svetlana Berdyugina, Heidi Korhonen & Alexander Shapiro

09:40 – 10:46

Contributed Talks 1

Session Chair: Heidi Korhonen | 9+2 min talks

9:40

Solar Transits: Finding Earth-like Planets Around Sun-like Stars

Greg Kopp (U. of Colorado)

9:51

Measuring and modeling the variability of solar Balmer lines

Serena Criscuoli (National Solar Observatory)

10:02

Modeling Starspot Features on a Solar-type Star with an M-dwarf Companion

Maria C. Schutte (University of Oklahoma)

10:13

Forward modelling of stellar atmospheres in support of transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets

Sven Wedemeyer (Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, U. of Oslo)

10:24

Stellar RV calculations from realistic MHD atmospheres of spots, plages, and quiet star regions on different spectral types

Mayukh Panja (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)

10:35

Spectral limb darkening response to stellar surface magnetic field

Nadiia Kostogryz (Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung)

Break 10:46 – 11:00

11:00 – 11:30

Occulted Active Regions

SAG21 Overview Talk

Brett Morris & Mahmoud Oshagh

11:30 – 12:30

Contributed Talks 2

Session Chair: Mahmoud Oshagh | 9+2 min talks

11:30

Observing planet-starspot crossings with the James Webb Space Telescope

Giovanni Bruno (INAF)

11:41

On the fraction of variable host stars among the known hot Jupiters

Matthias Mallonn (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam)

11:52

Using multi-band photometry to model and correct stellar activity effects in transmission spectroscopy

Ignasi Ribas (Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC) & IEEC)

12:03

Stellar Decomposition Using Out of Transit Transmission Spectral Data

Chima McGruder (Harvard University)

12:14

The challenge of combining multi-epoch observations of exoplanet atmospheres

Vatsal Panwar (University of Amsterdam)

12:30 – 13:00

Stellar & Planetary Retrievals

SAG21 Overview Talk

Ryan MacDonald & Benjamin Rackham
(on behalf of Joanna Barstow and Subgroup 2)

Day 2 — Mar. 9, 2021
(Full program PDF for day 2)

09:00 – 09:30

Unocculted Active Regions

SAG21 Overview Talk

Ben Montet & Yvonne Unruh

09:30 – 10:30

Contributed Talks 3

Session Chair: Elisabeth Newton | 9+2 min talks

9:30

Rinse and Repeat: Strategies for Transit Spectroscopy in the Ultraviolet

Leonardo dos Santos (University of Geneva)

9:41

Hubble Spectroscopy of the Habitable-zone Super-Earth LHS 1140 b

Billy Edwards (University College London)

9:52

Trappist-1h transmission spectrum: knowing the star

Lionel Garcia (University of Liège, Belgium)

10:03

The GIARPS view of the extended helium atmosphere of HD 189733 b accounting for stellar activity

Gloria Guilluy (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino)

10:14

Spectral Resolution-Linked Bias in Transit Spectroscopy

Drake Deming (University of Maryland)

10:30 – 11:00

Future Complimentary Observations

SAG21 Overview Talk

Elisa Quintana & Rob Zellem

Break 11:00 – 11:15

11:15 – 12:00

Contributed Talks 4

Session Chair: Néstor Espinoza | 9+2 min talks

11:15

Gaussian Process Kernels and Their Relation to Stellar Spot Distribution Models

Manuel Perger (Institut de Ciéncies de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC, IEEC))

11:26

PoET: a solar telescope for planet hunters

Nuno C. Santos (IA/U. Porto)

11:37

The Pandora SmallSat: Multiwavelength Characterization of Exoplanets and their Host Stars

Jessie Dotson (NASA Ames Research Center)

11:48

Studying Terrestrial Atmospheres Remotely via a Habitable Earth Lagrange Instrument Explorer

Laura Mayorga (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)

12:00 – 13:00

Discussion