2018 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop

Did I Really Just Find an Exoplanet?

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Sunday July 22

Registration Gathering at Beckman Institute Courtyard, Caltech

• 4-6 pm: Please join us on the patio outside the Beckman Institute for the opportunity to register and greet colleagues. We'll have light snacks available but you'll want to get dinner afterwards.

Monday July 23: Transits

• 8:30 am: Welcome and Opening Comments
• 8:45 am: Quantifying the Strength of Evidence for a Planet — Tom Loredo (Cornell University) (view presentation)
• 9:45 am: Morning Break
• 10:15 am: Transits: Planet Detection and False Signals — Raphaëlle Haywood (Harvard College Observatory) (view presentation)
• 11:00 am: The Role of Transit Timing Variations — Dan Fabrycky (University of Chicago) (view presentation)
• 11:45 am: Attendee Pops
• 12:05 pm: Lunch
• 1:30 pm: Astronomical Observations for Transit Validation — Tim Morton (Princeton) (view presentation)
• 2:00 pm: From Pixels to Planets: The Process of Validating Transiting Planets — Andrew Vanderburg (UT Austin) (view presentation)
• 2:30 pm: Introduction to Hands-on Sessions
  • 2:30-2:35 pm: General Introduction — Elise Furlan (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) (view presentation)
  • 2:35-3:05 pm: EXOFAST v2 Introduction — Jason Eastman (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) (view presentation)
  • 3:05-3:35 pm: VESPA — Tim Morton (Princeton) (view presentation)
• 3:35 pm: Afternoon Break
• 4:00 pm: Introductory Hands-on Session
  • 4:00-4:30 pm: TESS — Elisa Quintana (NASA GSFC) (view presentation)
  • 4:30-5:00 pm: Group Discussions — Jessie Christiansen (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI)
  • 5:00-5:30 pm: Groups Report Findings
• 5:30 pm: Adjourn

Tuesday July 24: Radial Velocities

• 8:30 am: Generating Precise Radial Velocities — Sharon Wang (Carnegie DTM) (view presentation)
• 9:15 am: Instrumental Challenges of High Precision Radial Velocity Instruments — Sam Halverson (University of Pennsylvania) (view presentation)
• 9:45 am: Breaking the 1 m/s Barrier: Data Collection and Data Analysis — Arpita Roy (California Institute of Technology) (view presentation)
• 10:30 am: Morning Break
• 11:00 am: Perils of False Signals — Raphaëlle Haywood (Harvard College Observatory) (view presentation)
• 11:45 am: Attendee Pops
• 12:05 pm: Lunch
• 1:30 pm: Orbit Determination and Degeneracy of Models — Jennifer Burt (MIT Kavli Institute) (view presentation)
• 2:00 pm: Quantifying the Evidence for a Planet in Radial Velocity Data — Benjamin Nelson (Northwestern University) (view presentation)
• 2:30 pm: Workshop Picture followed by Afternoon Break and Poster Session 1
• 3:30 pm: Hands-on sessions: Transit Validation (VESPA), Orbit Determination (EXOFASTv2)
• 5:30 pm: Adjourn

Wednesday July 25: Direct Imaging

• 8:30 am: Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Achieving the High Contrast Needed — Jared Males (University of Arizona) (view presentation)
• 9:15 am: Direct Imaging 101: Rejecting Background Sources, Artifacts, and Disk Emission — Kate Follette (Amherst College) (view presentation)
• 10:00 am: Morning Break
• 10:30 am: Stellar Ages and Properties — Eric Mamajek (NASA JPL) (view presentation)
• 11:15 am: Characterization of Directly Imaged Planets — Travis Barman (LPL, University of Arizona) (view presentation)
• 12:00 pm: Attendee Pops
• 12:20 pm: Lunch
• 1:45 pm: Spectral Retrieval — Heather Knutson (Caltech) (view presentation)
• 2:30 pm: Afternoon Break and Poster Session 2
• 3:30 pm: Hands-on sessions: Transit Validation (VESPA), Orbit Determination (EXOFASTv2)
• 5:30 pm: Adjourn
• 7:00 pm: Workshop Dinner

Thursday July 26: Astrometry and Microlensing

• 8:30 am: 100 Years of Not Finding a Planet with Astrometry — Fritz Benedict (UT Austin) (view presentation)
• 9:15 am: Gaia — Alessandro Sozzetti (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino) (view presentation)
• 10:00 am: Morning Break
• 10:30 am: Finding Planets with Microlensing — Calen Henderson (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) (view presentation)
• 11:15 am: Microlensing Planets: Modeling and Unique Solutions — Jennifer Yee (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) (view presentation)
• 12:00 pm: Attendee Pops
• 12:20 pm: Lunch
• 1:45 pm: Hands-on sessions: work on group projects and preparation for presentations
• 5:30 pm: Adjourn

Friday July 27: Looking to the Future

• 8:30 am: Combining Transits and Radial Velocities — Jason Eastman (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) (view presentation)
• 9:15 am: Combining Astrometry and Direct Imaging: Breaking the 1 micro-arcsecond Barrier — Quinn Konopacky (UC San Diego) (view presentation)
• 10:00 am: Morning Break
• 10:30 am: Radial Velocities from Space — Peter Plavchan (George Mason University) (view presentation)
• 11:15 am: Current and Future Knowledge of Planet Populations — Angie Wolfgang (Penn State University) (view presentation)
• 12:00 pm: Lunch
• 1:15 pm: Introduction to ExoFOP — Jessie Christiansen (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) (no video available)
• 1:45 pm: The Future with TESS, JWST, WFIRST, and Beyond (Introduction to NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program) — Karl Stapelfeldt (NASA JPL) (no video available)
• 2:30 pm: Group Project Presentations
• 4:30 pm: Survey and Closing Comments
• 4:45 pm: Adjourn

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