2020 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Virtual Workshop

Extreme Precision Radial Velocity

Agenda

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• Virtual Poster Session
• Q&A from the webinar

  This spreadsheet has 4 pages, one for each day of the workshop, with the questions and answers that were asked/answered online during the webinar.

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Notes on the Agenda:

The original 5-day agenda for the in-person meeting was compressed to 4 days for the virtual meeting.

Pre-recorded Presentations are viewable on the Sagan Exoplanet Workshop YouTube Channel.

Live Presentations:

Most of the speakers will present a slightly shortened version of their presentation live. These will be available July 20-23 and will be recorded for eventual posting on the Sagan Workshop YouTube channel.

Panel Discussions:

The panel discussions will give attendees a chance to ask questions in real time. Panel members will give a summary of their talks and then answer questions from the live audience, and also questions submitted ahead of time.

Q & A:

During the meeting, we ask that you submit questions through the Zoom Webinar Q&A function; you can also upvote questions.

Virtual Poster Session:

Attendees can submit a poster about their exoplanet or radial velocity-related research and also a short, pre-recorded (2 min) poster advertisement. The deadline for submission is July 14. We do not have any requirements on size, but keep in mind that posters will be viewed on computer screens. While we do not have space in the agenda for a dedicated poster session, posters will be available on a web page and attendees will be encouraged to use a Slack channel for discussions about posters.

Poster files should include your name "last_first.pdf or mp4" and be submitted through the Caltech Drop Box to the sagan_workshop@ipac.caltech.edu email address.

Monday July 20: Fundamentals of PRV, Error Budgets, Instrumentation

	Title (click title to view slide deck)	Presenter	Link
8:15 am	Welcome and Opening Comments	Chas Beichman, Dawn Gelino, Elise Furlan (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI)
8:30 am	Why RVs Are Important	Chad Bender (Univ. of Arizona)	View
	Session Chair: BJ Fulton
9:00 am	Fundamentals of PRV	Debra Fischer (Yale Univ.)	View
9:30 am	Break
9:45 am	Fundamentals of Instrumentation	Andreas Quirrenbach (Univ. of Heidelberg)	View
	Session Chair: Johanna Teske
10:15 am	Panel Discussion: PRV, Error Budgets, Instumentation I	Chad Bender, Debra Fischer, Andreas Quirrenbach, Mike Endl	View
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Panel Discussion: PRV, Error Budgets, Instumentation II	Sam Halverson, Stephanie Leifer	View
12:00 pm	Hands-on Session Tutorial	BJ Fulton, Chad Bender, Heather Cegla, Nathan Hara	View
12:45 pm	Adjourn
	Talks listed below will have pre-recorded versions
	Fundamentals of PRV	Debra Fischer (Yale Univ.)	View
	Fundamentals of Instrumentation	Andreas Quirrenbach (Univ. of Heidelberg)	View
	Error Budgets	Sam Halverson (JPL)	View
	Wavelength Calibration for EPRV Detection of Exoplanets	Stephanie Leifer (JPL)	View
	Overview of EPRV Instruments	Mike Endl (Univ. of Texas)	View
	Lessons Learned from Building Instruments: Interviews with 5 Astronomers	conducted by Debra Fischer (Yale Univ.)
	1. Lessons Learned from Building Instruments: Hectospec, TRES, GCLEF and others	Andy Szentgyorgyi (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)	View
	2. Lessons Learned from Building Instruments: CHIRON, VUES, EXPRES	Debra Fischer (Yale Univ.)	View
	3. Lessons Learned from Building Instruments: The Habitable Zone Planet Finder and NEID	Suvrath Mahadevan (Penn State Univ.)	View
	4. Lessons Learned from Building Instruments: WINTER, LLAMAS and others	Gabor Furesz (MIT)	View
	5. Lessons Learned from Building Instruments: HARPS, ESPRESSO & others	Francesco Pepe (Geneva University)	View
	Past and Future of RV Science: RVs in the Greater Context of Exoplanet Science	Andreas Quirrenbach (Univ. of Heidelberg)	View
	Hands-on Session: DACE Tutorials	Nathan Hara (Univ. of Geneva)	Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Tuesday July 21: Fundamentals of Data Analysis and Statistical Significance

	Title (click title to view slide deck)	Presenter	Link
	Session Chair: Heather Cegla
8:30 am	Overview of RV Planet Signal Fitting	Jason Wright (Penn State)	View
9:00 am	Standard Method for Measuring RVs and their Uncertainties	Sharon Wang (Carnegie Observatories)	View
	Session Chair: Eric Ford
9:30 am	Statistical Significance of Signals	Nathan Hara (Univ. of Geneva)	View
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Panel Discussion: Measuring and Fitting RVs, Statistical Significance of Signals	Jason Wright, Sharon Wang, Nathan Hara, Vinesh Maguire-Rajpaul	View
11:00 am	Hands-on Session Tutorial	BJ Fulton, Chad Bender, Heather Cegla, Nathan Hara	View
12:00 pm	Adjourn
	Talks listed below will have pre-recorded versions
	Overview of RV Planet Signal Fitting	Jason Wright (Penn State)	View
	Standard Method for Measuring RVs and their Uncertainties	Sharon Wang (Carnegie Observatories)	View
	Statistical Significance of Signals	Nathan Hara (Univ. of Geneva)	View
	Gaussian Processes: Their Power and Limitations	Vinesh Maguire-Rajpaul (Cambridge Univ.)	View

Wednesday July 22: Stellar Signals and Tellurics

	Title (click title to view slide deck)	Presenter	Link
	Session Chair: Andreas Quirrenbach
8:30 am	Physics Responsible for Various Sources of Stellar Variability	Heather Cegla (Univ. of Geneva/Univ. of Warwick)	View
9:00 am	Lessons from Sun as a Star Observations	Annelies Mortier (Univ. of Cambridge)	View
9:30 am	Break
9:45 am	Strategies for Mitigating Stellar Variability	Jenn Burt (JPL)	View
10:15 am	The Impact of Telluric Lines on EPRV Measurements	Cullen Blake (University of Pennsylvania)	View
10:45 am	Break
	Session Chair: Jason Wright
11:00 am	Panel Discussion: Stellar Signals, Variability & Mitigation	Annelies Mortier, Cullen Blake, Heather Cegla, Jenn Burt, Peter Plavchan	View
12:00 pm	The EPRV Initiative	Scott Gaudi (Ohio State Univ.)	View
12:30 pm	Hands-on Session: Planet Hunt Challenge Tutorial and Q & A	BJ Fulton, Chad Bender, Heather Cegla, Nathan Hara	View
1:15 pm	Adjourn
	Talks listed below will have pre-recorded versions
	Physics Responsible for Various Sources of Stellar Variability	Heather Cegla (Univ. of Geneva/Univ. of Warwick)	View
	Lessons from "Sun as a Star" Observations	Annelies Mortier (Univ. of Cambridge)	View
	Strategies for Mitigating Stellar Variability	Jenn Burt (JPL)	View
	The Impact of Telluric Lines on EPRV Measurements	Cullen Blake (University of Pennsylvania)	View
	The EPRV Initiative	Scott Gaudi (Ohio State Univ.)	View
	Advantages of RVs from Space	Peter Plavchan (George Mason Univ.)	View

Thursday July 23: Beyond EPRVs: Characterizing Planets

	Title (click title to view slide deck)	Presenter	Link
	Session Chair: Chas Beichman
8:30 am	Writing a Transit Exoplanet Spectroscopy Proposal	Natasha Batalha (NASA Ames)	View
9:00 am	High-resolution Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres	Jayne Birkby (Univ. of Oxford)	View
9:30 am	Break
9:45 am	Panel Discussion: Spectroscopy of planet atmospheres, habitability	Natasha Batalha, Jayne Birkby, Leslie Rogers (Rogers: The Importance of Planet Mass in Assessing Planetary Habitability)	View
	Session Chair: Chad Bender
10:30 am	Determining the Reliability, Composition, and Stability of Transiting Planet Candidates	Courtney Dressing (UC Berkeley)	View
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Beyond Bare Detection to Biological and Geological Indicators	Jim Kasting (Penn State)	View
11:45 am	Panel Discussion: RV, Direct Imaging, and Spectroscopy of Earths	Jim Kasting, Courtney Dressing, Scott Gaudi, Jonathan Fortney (Fortney: Origins Space Telescope)	View
12:35 pm	Closing Comments	Dawn Gelino
12:45 pm	Adjourn
	Talks listed below will have pre-recorded versions
	Writing a Transit Exoplanet Spectroscopy Proposal	Natasha Batalha (NASA Ames)	1. View Talk 2. Tutorial 3. propexo on GitHub
	Determining the Reliability, Composition, and Stability of Transiting Planet Candidates	Courtney Dressing (UC Berkeley)	View
	Beyond Bare Detection to Biological and Geological Indicators	Jim Kasting (Penn State)	View
	The Importance of Planet Mass in Assessing Planetary Habitability	Leslie Rogers (Univ. of Chicago)	View

Friday July 24: Hands-on Session Wrap-up and "Lunch" with Speakers

	Title (click title to view slide deck)	Presenter	Link
8:30 am	Hands-On Sessions: Wrap-Up: Discussion of Results and Challenges	BJ Fulton (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI)
9:00 am	Lunch/Tea/Coffee/Dinner with speakers	sign-up here before July 24
10:00 am	Lunch/Tea/Coffee/Dinner with speakers	sign-up here before July 24
11:00 am	Lunch/Tea/Coffee/Dinner with speakers	sign-up here before July 24
12:00 pm	Lunch/Tea/Coffee/Dinner with speakers	sign-up here before July 24

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