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Second Kepler Science Conference

NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA
Nov. 4-8, 2013

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Poster Session Group 1


Poster Session Group 2




Poster Group 1: Exoplanet Statistics, False Positives, and Completeness Corrections

Poster Number

Title Author

1-100

A Planet Search among Kepler Asteroseismic Giant Stars Artie Hatzes (Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg)

1-101

Frequency of Neptune and Saturn-mass planets in the solar neighborhood (view poster) Benjamin J. Fulton, Andrew W. Howard, and Evan J. Sinukoff (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)

1-102

Dynamic Black-Level Correction and Artifact Flagging in the Kepler Data Pipeline (view poster) Bruce Clarke (SETI)

1-103

Stellar Properties of Kepler Targets for the Q1-Q16 Planet Detection Run Daniel Huber (NASA Ames)

1-104

Correctly Accounting for Planets in Multiples when Determining Occurrence Rates (view poster) Darin Ragozzine (Florida Institute of Technology)

1-105

The Kepler Community Follow-Up Observation Program Website (view poster) Megan Crane, David Ciardi, Rachel Akeson (Caltech)

1-106

The Kepler Follow-Up Observation Program David Ciardi (Caltech)

1-107

Squeezing Blood from the Stone: Maximizing the Performance of Speckle Imaging at WIYN, Gemini North, and Beyond (view poster) Elliott Horch (Southern Connecticut State University)

1-108

Automatic False Positive Identification of KOIs Fergal Mullally (SETI/NASA Ames)

1-109

DSSI at DCT: Superearth Validation with High-Resolution Speckle Interferometry (view poster) Gerard van Belle (Lowell Observatory)

1-110

Improvements to the Presearch Data Conditioning Component of the Kepler Pipeline Jeffrey Smith (SETI Institute/NASA Ames)

1-111

Likely Planet Candidates Identified by Machine Learning Applied to Four Years of Kepler Data (view poster) Jon Jenkins (SETI Institute)

1-112

Prioritization of Kepler Planetary Candidates for Follow-up Observations Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

1-113

A search for giant planets orbiting M giant stars in the Kepler database (view poster) Louis J. Scuderi (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)

1-114

A Planet Hunters Assessment of the Kepler TCE Inventory (view poster) Meg Schwamb (Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA))

1-115

Characterization of the stellar population in the Kepler field: putting Kepler's small planets into a galactic context (view poster) Michael Endl McDonald Observatory (University of Texas at Austin)

1-116

SpiKeS: Spitzer Kepler Survey (view poster) Michael Werner (JPL)

1-117

Robotic Kepler follow-up: LGS-AO imaging of every KOI star Nicholas Law (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

1-118

Comparing HARPS and Kepler surveys: On the alignment of multiple-planet systems Nuno Santos (Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto)

1-119

Simulation Studies of the Recovery of Transiting Planet Signatures in the Kepler Mission Transiting Planet Search Algorithm Peter Tenenbaum (SETI Institute)

1-120

Characterizing the Cool KOIs (view poster) Philip Muirhead (Boston University)

1-121

Data and Tools for Kepler Users (view poster) Rachel Akeson (NExScI)

1-122

Testing for Stellar Cohabitation in Kepler's Multiple Transiting Planet Systems(view poster) Robert C. Morehead (Pennsylvania State University)

1-123

False Alarm Vetoes for Transiting Planet Searches (view poster) Shawn Seader (SETI)

1-124

Probabilistic Model-Based Analysis of Kepler Transit Signal Locations (view poster) Steve Bryson (NASA Ames)

1-125

The Kepler Sky Model Metric (view poster) Steve Bryson (NASA Ames)

1-126

High Resolution Active Optics Observations from the Kepler Follow-up Observation Program Thomas Gautier (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

1-127

The Radius Distribution of Planets Around Cool Stars Timothy Morton (Princeton)

1-128

Measurement of Stellar Rotation of Exoplanet Host Stars from Kepler Mission Photometry: Scarcity of Short Period Planets around Fast Rotators (view poster) Tsevi Mazeh (Tel Aviv University)

1-129

Planet-Metallicity Correlation Revealed by Kepler (view poster) Ji Wang (Yale University)

Poster Group 1: Earth Analogues and Super-Earths

Poster Number

Title Author

1-200

Just How Earth-like are Super-Earths? Constraints on H+He Envelope Fractions from Kepler's Planet Candidates (view poster) Angie Wolfgang (University of California, Santa Cruz)

1-201

A Survey for Very Short-Period Planets in the Kepler Data (view poster) Brian Jackson (Carnegie Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism)

1-202

Orbital Stability Analysis of GJ 581 Cesar Sul (San Jose State University)

1-203

KOI 2626: A Quadruple System With a Planet? David Ciardi (Caltech)

1-204

The Radius of the Super-Earth Kepler-9d Justin Stevick (San Diego State University)

1-205

A Relation between Mass and Radius for 59 Exoplanets with R < 4R⊕ Lauren M. Weiss (UC Berkeley)

1-206

Water- versus Water-Land-worlds in the HZ - the example of Kepler 62 Lisa Kaltenegger (MPIA/CfA)

1-207

Small Planet Validation from High- and Ultra-high-resolution Images Mark E. Everett (NOAO)

1-208

Colors of extreme exo-Earths through time Siddharth Hegde (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

Poster Group 1: Multiple Planets and Multiple Star Systems

Poster Number

Title Author

1-300

Populating the mass-radius diagram using TTVs Aviv Ofir (Institute for Astrophysics, Göttingen University)

1-301

Search for Exoplanets Orbiting the Kepler Contact Binaries (view poster) Billy Quarles (NASA Ames)

1-302

Applying the Titius-Bode Relation to Exoplanetary Systems: a new useful tool Charley Lineweaver (Australian National University)

1-303

The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) David Kipping (Harvard College Observatory)

1-304

Planets transiting non-eclipsing binaries (view poster) David Martin (Université de Genève)

1-305

What Can the Phase Signatures of Kepler Multi-Planet Systems Teach Us? (view poster) Dawn M. Gelino (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute)

1-306

Fast computation of transit times, and application to Kepler multi-planet systems Eric Agol (University of Washington)

1-307

Searching for Extreme TTV Planets with QATS (view poster) Ethan Kruse (University of Washington)

1-308

Lessons from Kepler exomoon surveys: planets host not much larger moons than Ganymede (view poster) Gyula M. Szabo (Gothard Observatory, Eötvös University)

1-309

Fine Structure in the Architectures of Kepler Systems Jason Steffen (Northwestern University)

1-310

Searching for planets around hot stars in the Kepler Field John R Hodgson II (California State University, Northridge)

1-311

A TTV-fueled study of non-resonant companions to multiple-transiting systems in the Kepler sample (view poster) Juliette Becker (Caltech)

1-312

Searching for Trojans in the Kepler Data Markus Janson (Queen's University Belfast)

1-313

Satellite Stability in Multi-Planet Systems Matthew J. Payne (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

1-314

The locus and compound locus for the research of exoplanets and other cosmological objects (Theory) Robert Olivares Morales (Paris VI University Astrophysics Institute)

1-315

Searching for Third Bodies Around Heartbeat Stars Susan Thompson (SETI Institute/NASA Ames)

1-316

Applying the Titius-Bode Relation to Exoplanetary Systems: Results, Predictions and Confirmations Timothy Bovaird (Australian National University)

1-317

TRADES: a new code for the orbital fit of TTV multiple planetary systems Valerio Nascimbeni (INAF-OAPd)

1-318

Kepler Circumbinary Planets: Emerging Trends (view poster) William F. Welsh (San Diego State University)

1-319

Searching planets in Kepler predicted with a general Titus-Bode relation (view poster) Xu (Chelsea) Huang (Princeton University)

Poster Group 1: Planet Formation and Migration Theories

Poster Number

Title Author

1-400

Orbital Migration of Protoplanets in a Marginally Gravitationally Unstable Disk (view poster) Alan Boss (Carnegie Institution)

1-401

Interplanetary Exchange of Meteoritic Material: From Europa to the Earth (view poster) Carmen Ayala (Instituto de Astronomia UNAM)

1-402

Linear Corotation Torques in Non-Isothermal Disks (view poster) David Tsang (McGill University)

1-403

A Dynamic One-Dimensional Implementation of a GEC heating model for Hot Jupiters (view poster) Derek Buzasi (Florida Gulf Coast University)

1-404

KOI-1474: A Case Study for Giant Planet Migration Rebekah Dawson (UC Berkeley)

1-405

Spin-Orbit Alignment for 110-Day-Period KOI-368.01 from Gravity Darkening Shayne A. Seubert (University of Idaho)

1-406

Hot Big Planets Survey: Measuring tidal migration of planets, the tidal dissipation strength of stars, and the differences in distributions of iron-r (view poster) Stuart F. Taylor (Participation Worldscope)

1-407

Planet Complication Surround the Earth Adil Hakeen Khan (Kasturba College, Jiwaji University)

1-408

Heat effect of orientation a mechanical systems in the space (view poster) Murat Zhussupov (Noosphereorder Co)

Poster Group 1: Habitable Zone

Poster Number

Title Author

1-500

Small Habitable Zone Planets Around Cool Stars Elisa Quintana (SETI Institute/NASA Ames)

1-501

3-D Atmospheric Modeling of an Earthlike Planet in a Kepler-16b Type Orbit Laurance R. Doyle (SETI Institute)

1-502

Venuses in the Habitable Zone: The Case of Kepler-69 (view poster) Stephen Kane (San Francisco State University)

1-503

The Distribution of Water Content Amongst Earth-sized Habitable Zone Planets Thomas Barclay (NASA Ames)

Poster Group 1: Future Exoplanet Telescopes and Instrumentation

Poster Number

Title Author

1-600

Implications of the value of η earth for the choice of a spectroscopic mission - visible or thermal IR? Alain Leger (IAS)

1-601

Impacts of a prior identification of potentially habitable planets by an astrometric mission on the capabilities of future spectroscopic missions Alain Leger (IAS)

1-602

The Laser Frequency Comb Wavelength Calibrator at HARPS-N Alexander G. Glenday (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

1-603

PULSE: Palomar Ultraviolet Laser for the Study of Exoplanets (view poster) Christoph Baranec (University of Hawai'i, Institute for Astronomy)

1-604

Visible-light laser-adaptive-optics imaging of thousands of exoplanet hosts with Robo-AO (view poster) Christoph Baranec (University of Hawai'i, Institute for Astronomy)

1-605

Optimization of Automated Planet Finder Observing Strategy (view poster) Evan Sinukoff (University of Hawai'i, Institute for Astronomy)

1-606

SOPHIE+ spectrograph for the follow-up of transiting exoplanets Francois Bouchy (Laboratoire Astrophysique Marseille)

1-607

The KELT Network: Small Telescope Follow Up for Kepler EBs and KOIs (view poster) Joshua Pepper (Lehigh University)

1-608

Increasing the sensitivity of the Kepler legacy archive to transiting planets (view poster) Martin Still (BAERI/NASA Ames)

1-609

Open Source Software Development for Transit Detection using Cloud Computing (view poster) Peter McCullough (STScI & Johns Hopkins)

Poster Group 2: Characterizing Transiting Planets

Poster Number

Title Author

2-100

Kepler Astrometry: An Attempt Angelle Tanner (Mississippi State University)

2-101

Atmospheric characterization of the hot Jupiter Kepler-13b Avi Shporer (Caltech/JPL)

2-102

LHS 6343: Precise Constraints on the Mass and Radius of a Transiting Brown Dwarf Discovered by Kepler (view poster) Benjamin T. Montet (California Institute of Technology)

2-103

Lightly blended exoplanets: the curious confirmation of KOI 1089 (view poster) Brandon Tingley (Aarhus University)

2-104

Recently Discovered Exoplanetary System in Spin-Orbit Misalignment from Rossiter-McLauglin Measurements (view poster) Brett Addison (University of New South Wales)

2-105

Kepler's Optical Secondary Eclipse Of HAT-P-7b And Probable Detection Of Planet-Induced Stellar Gravity Darkening (view poster) Brett Morris (University of Washington)

2-106

Magnetic characterization of planet-host stars: unveiling star-planet interactions? Claire Moutou (CFHT)

2-107

A comprehensive study of Kepler phase curves and secondary eclipses Daniel Angerhausen (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI))

2-108

Flexible non-parametric models for the simultaneous inference of systematics and astrophysical signals in Kepler light curves (view poster) Daniel Foreman-Mackey (NYU)

2-109

Just the Photometry: Constraining exoplanet orbits by measuring stellar densities David Sliski (Harvard College Observatory)

2-110

Solid Planets from Kepler: How do the New EOS and Models Do? Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

2-111

Transit Observations with SOFIA (view poster) Edward Dunham (Lowell Observatory)

2-112

Characterizing the Hot Kepler Objects of Interest Ellen Price (California Institute of Technology)

2-113

Transit transmission spectroscopy with GTC: First results Enric Palle (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)

2-114

Reduced Proper Motion Diagrams and Kepler Astrometry G. Fritz Benedict (University of Texas)

2-115

Spin-orbit misalignment for the long period companion KOI-368.01 using gravity darkening George Zhou (Australian National University)

2-116

Mapping a star with transits: orbit precession effects in the Kepler-13 system (view poster) Gyula M. Szabo (Gothard Observatory, Eötvös University)

2-117

The starspots-transit depth relation of KIC 12557548 b (view poster) Hajime Kawahara (University of Tokyo)

2-118

Kepler-77b: a low albedo, Saturn-mass transiting planet Hannu Parviainen (University of Oxford)

2-119

A Statistical Characterization of the Atmospheres of Kepler's Planet Candidates (view poster) Holly Sheets (University of Maryland at College Park)

2-120

Performance of Transit Model Fitting in Processing 4 Years of Kepler Data (view poster) Jie Li (SETI Institute)

2-121

A Transmission Spectrum of the Possibly Disintegrating Planet KIC 12557548b (view poster) Johanna Teske (University of Arizona, Steward Observatory)

2-122

Characterization and Validation of Small HZ Planet Candidates in the Kepler SOC Pipeline (view poster) Joseph Twicken (SETI Institute)

2-123

Threshold Masses and Radii for Survival of Photo-Evaporating Low-Density Low-Mass Planets Orbiting G-Type and M-Type Stars Kenji Kurosaki (University of Tokyo)

2-124

Exoplanet Secondary Eclipses Using WFC3 (view poster) Korey Haynes (George Mason University/NASA GSFC)

2-125

Effect of stellar spots on the high precision transit light curve (view poster) Mahmoudreza Oshagh (University of Porto)

2-126

Validation of Kepler Planet Candidates Using Doppler Tomography (view poster) Marshall C. Johnson (University of Texas at Austin)

2-127

Mass-Radius Relationship for Old, Cold Jupiters Matthew J. Payne (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

2-128

TERMS and Conditions of Transiting Exoplanets Natalie Hinkel (San Francisco State University)

2-129

SME@XSEDE: An Embarrassingly Parallel Approach to Stellar Characterization of Planet Hosting Stars Phillip Cargile (Vanderbilt University)

2-130

Densities and Eccentricities of Kepler Planets from TTV through Q12 (view poster) Sam Hadden (Northwestern)

2-131

Detection of superrotation in Kepler light curves of hot Jupiters (view poster) Simchon Faigler (Tel Aviv University)

2-132

Strategies to photometric follow-up transiting exoplanets (view poster) Simona Ciceri (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

2-133

The NASA Exoplanet Archive (view poster) Solange V. Ramirez (NExScI/Caltech)

2-134

Two seasons of HARPS-N follow-up of Kepler planetary candidates Stephane Udry (Geneva University (Geneva Observatory))

2-135

What asteroseismology can do for exoplanets: obliquity, eccentricity and confirmation (view poster) Vincent Van Eylen (Aarhus University)

2-136

Using the TTV to Explore the Dynamical Configurations of Kepler Planets (view poster) Jiwei Xei (University of Toronto/Nanjing University)

2-137

Sizing Up the Stars and Planet Hunters "100,000 Eyes" Guest Scientist Program Tabetha Boyajian (Yale University)

Poster Group 2: Eclipsing and Interacting Binaries

Poster Number

Title Author

2-200

KOI-1120: A spotted giant and a sun-like eclipsing stellar pair Alexandria Gonzales (Scripps College)

2-201

Combined analysis of the pulsating, eccentric, long period eclipsing binary KIC 008560861 Aliz Derekas (Konkoly Observatory)

2-202

Long-Term Quadrature Light Variability in Algol-Type Binary Systems (view poster) Geraldine J. Peters (University of Southern California)

2-203

Revisiting the Mass-Radius relation of low mass stars using SOPHIE and the Kepler and CoRoT planet search surveys Guillaume Montagnier (OHP/IAP)

2-204

Tidal friction, tidally excited oscillations, and heartbeat stars (view poster) Jim Fuller (Cornell/Caltech)

2-205

The effect of Micro-lensing in eclipsing binary-star systems Kelsey Hoffman (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)

2-206

Analytic Approach to ETV Analysis of Eccentric Binaries with Close Tertiaries Tamas Borkovits (Baja Astronomical Observatory)

2-207

Characterizing the Brown Dwarf candidate KOI-1152.01: A short period transiting companion with high obliquity and eccentric orbit (view poster) Tamas Norbert Varga (Eötvös Lorand University)

2-208

The Mass and Radius of the Eclipsing Binary KIC 8736245 (view poster) Tara Fetherolf (San Diego State University)

Poster Group 2: Stellar Activity, Rotation, Ages, Metallicity

Poster Number

Title Author

2-300

Kepler Variable Star Interactive (view poster) Alan Gould (Univerity of California - The Lawrence Hall of Science)

2-301

Determining the orbital geometry of HAT-P-11b from photometry only using starspots (view poster) Bence Beky (Harvard University)

2-302

Solar Analogs in the Kepler Field Derek Buzasi (Florida Gulf Coast University)

2-303

Spots and Flares: Tracing 3 years of magnetic activity on GJ 1243 with Kepler (view poster) James R. A. Davenport (University of Washington)

2-304

Improving Photometry and Stellar Signal Preservation with Pixel-Level Systematic Error Correction Jeff Kolodziejczak (NASA/MSFC)

2-305

Star Tickling: Searching for Signals from Extraterrestrial Civilizations (view poster) Jeff Scargle (NASA Ames)

2-306

The Preservation of Stellar Signals in Kepler Pipeline Processed Data Jeffrey Smith (SETI Institute/NASA Ames)

2-307

A spectroscopic and photometric search for star-planet interactions (view poster) John Hodgson II (California State University, Northridge)

2-308

Atmospheric Stellar Parameters from Numerical CCFs with HARPS/HARPS-N (view poster) Luca Malavolta (Universita degli Studi di Padova)

2-309

Mining of Kepler Data through Machine Learning Lucianne Walkowicz (Princeton University)

2-310

Do Large Planets with Short Orbital Periods Affect the Rotational Velocity of a Star? Marcus Lee (NASA)

2-311

Stellar rotation from starspot variability (view poster) Martin Nielsen (Goettingen University)

2-312

Relation between surface rotation, stellar activity, and pulsations. Impact of Kepler data processing Rafael A. Garcia (Service d'Astrophysique CEA/Saclay)

2-313

Correcting Astrophysical Noise in HARPS-N RV Measurements Sara Gettel (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

2-314

Kepler at MAST: New Data Products and An Introduction To the Portal (view poster) Scott Fleming (Space Telescope Science Institute)

2-315

Characterization of Kepler Exoplanet Host Stars Steve B. Howell (NASA Ames)

Poster Group 2: Asteroseismology

Poster Number

Title Author

2-400

Artifacts in the short cadence Kepler data (view poster) Andrzej Baran (Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie)

2-401

The Interplay of Seismology and Stellar Populations Courtney Epstein (Ohio State University)

2-402

Beyond the Nyquist Frequency with Kepler data Donald Kurtz (University of Central Lancashire)

2-403

A Pulsating Hot Subdwarf KIC 10670103 - 2.5 Year Light Curve Data Analysis (view poster) Jerzy Krzesinski (Pedagogical University of Cracow)

2-404

A close look into the core of low-mass evolved stars Kevin Belkacem (Observatory of Paris, LESIA)

2-405

Kepler Observations of Pulsating Subdwarf B Stars (view poster) Mike Reed (Missouri State University)

2-406

The 'Keplerian' revolution in our understanding of RR Lyrae stars (view poster) Robert Szabo (MTA CSFK, Konkoly Observatory)

2-407

Heat-driven pulsations in eclipsing binary stars Valentina S. Schmid (KU Leuven)

2-409

Asteroseismology of Pulsating Stars in 23 Eclipsing Binaries Zhao Guo (Georgia State University)

Poster Group 2: Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Poster Number

Title Author

2-500

Digging for Gold: Exoplanet and Kepler Object Observations in the Keck Observatory Archive (view poster) G. Bruce Berriman (NExScI/IPAC/Caltech)

2-501

Kepler-RATS - a deep high cadence survey of the Kepler field (view poster) Gavin Ramsay (Armagh Observatory)

2-502

A Kepler Galaxy Survey: Establishing the Temporal Baseline for Extragalactic Systems Michael N Fanelli (NASA Ames/BAERI)

2-503

Photometric Monitoring of Quasars with Kepler (view poster) Stephen Unwin (JPL/Caltech)

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