Transits: Exoplanet and Stellar Astrophysics
April 7-11, 2008
PLEASE NOTE: This meeting has been merged with IAUS 253, to be held in Boston, MA, in May 2008.
There is broad interest in the contributions made by precision photometric measurements of exoplanet and stellar transits. This broad interest, combined with results from Spitzer, CoRoT, and the upcoming Kepler mission, make the time right for a conference on transit-based science. This conference will survey the breadth of exoplanet and stellar astrophysics relevant to transit techniques, and place transiting planet astrophysics in the larger context of our knowledge of exoplanet systems.
Workshop Location & Date
PLEASE NOTE: This meeting has been merged with IAUS 253
, to be held in Boston, MA, in May 2008. For more information, please see the IAUS website: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2008/IAUS253/
Preliminary List of Topics
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Physics of Exoplanets from transiting measurements -- bulk properties and atmospheres
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Results, Roles, and Impacts of ground and space-based photometric surveys
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Planetary system formation & architectures: the relative roles of transiting and other detection/characterization techniques
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Correlation of planetary system & host-star properties
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eta_Earth: how we measure it -- what it tells us
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Stellar Astrophysics from Eclipsing Binaries
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Impacts of Future Large-Scale Variability Surveys
Last update: 2/4/2008