Precision Spectroscopy: Towards Earth 2.0
1-4 August 2017, São Paulo, Brazil
Program
Monday 31 Jul 2017: Auditório 1
14:30 - 17:30 Registration and Support for installing codes (optional)
Tuesday 1 Aug 2017: Auditório G
09:00 - 10:00 Registration
Chair: Lorenzo Spina
10:00 - 10:10 Opening, Jorge Melendez
10:10 - 11:00 The Role of Precision Spectroscopy in the Search for Earth 2.0 (Jacob Bean)
11:00 - 12:00 Explaining the solar system (André Izidoro)
Chair: Ivan Ramírez
13:30 - 14:30 Evolution of rotation and magnetic field of Sun-like stars (Jose Dias do Nascimento Jr.)
14:30 - 15:30 The effect of stellar activity on radial velocities (Raphaëlle Haywood)
Chair: Jorge Melendez
- Starspot magnetic fields (Adriana Valio)
- On the formation of Earth like planets in the habitable zone of binary star systems (Othon Winter). Movie Kepler-16
- Constraining the influence of stellar mass on planet formation (Luan Ghezzi)
- Solar twins with a spin: old but still kicking (Leonardo A. dos Santos)
17:00 - 17:30 Light curve analysis - periodograms (José Dias do Nascimento Jr.)
17:30 - 18:00 Radial velocities (Leonardo dos Santos)
Wednesday 2 Aug 2017: Auditório G
Chair: Leonardo Santos
10:00 - 10:40 The Connection between Planets and Stellar Chemical Composition (Lorenzo Spina)
10:40 - 11:00 On the origin of the planet-host star iota Horologii (Iván Ramírez)
11:00 - 11:30 The evolution of chromospheric activity in solar type stars (Diego Lorenzo de Oliveira)
11:30 - 12:30 Accounting for activity-induced RV variations through Gaussian process regression (Raphaëlle Haywood)
14:00 - 15:10 10:10 - 11:00 Comparative exoplanetology in the era of the Great Observatories, JWST, and beyond (Jacob Bean) [IAG Astronomy colloquium]
Chair: Alan Alves-Brito
- Activity of HD 43587: The primary CoRoT target under a maunder minimum phase (Rafael Ramon Ferreira)
- Deriving abundances in medium resolution spectra (Andressa Cristina Silva Ferreira)
- Abundances in solar analogues (Ricardo López Valdivia)
- Carbon and nitrogen in a sample of solar analogs using molecular lines (Andre de Castro Milone)
- Detailed chemical abundances of M-dwarfs planet hosts from APOGEE observations (Diogo Souto)
- SPECIES: Spectroscopic Parameters and atmosphEric ChemIstriEs of Stars (Maritza Soto)
16:50 - 17:20 Measuring equivalent widths for high precision abundances (Jorge Meléndez)
17:20 - 18:00 Automatic stellar parameters with q2 (Iván Ramírez)
19:30 Workshop dinner: Consulado da Bahia (Rua dos Pinheiros, 534)
Thursday 3 Aug 2017: Auditório G
Chair: José-Dias do Nascimento, Jr.
10:00 – 11:00 The Sun as an exoplanet host star: testbed for radial velocity variations (Raphaëlle Haywood)
11:00 – 11:30 MAROON-X: Detecting Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of mid- to late-M dwarfs (Jacob Bean)
11:30 - 12:00 The GMT-Consortium Large Earth Finder (G-CLEF): An optical echelle spectrograph for the Giant Magellan Telescope (Andrew Szentgyorgyi)
Chair: Raphaëlle Haywood
13:30 - 13:50 Next generation Doppler spectrometers in the optical and near-infrared: the Extreme Precision Doppler Spectrometer and the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (Samuel Halverson)
13:50 - 14:10 Near infrared atmospheric correction for precise radial velocities (Solène C. Ulmer-Moll)
14:10 - 14:30 Precision RV measurements of predicted TESS planets with the Automated Planet Finder telescope (Jennifer Burt)
14:30 - 15:30 Brazilian access to future spectroscopic/spectropolarimetric and space-based photometric facilities to characterize solar type stars and their planets (José-Dias do Nascimento Jr.)
Chair: Chiara Battistini
- Radial Velocity Challenge at FIDEOS (Abner Zapata)
[canceled] - Lithium as a chemical signature of planet engulfment (Claudia Aguilera Gómez)
- Volatiles and refractories in pairs of similar solar like stars: candidates for hosting planets (Rafael Bueno Botelho)
- Differential abundances in the HAT-P-4 binary system (Emiliano Jofré)
- 16 Cygni: A key binary system for the study of the planet-star chemical connection (Marcelo Tucci Maia)
17:00 - 18:00 Stellar abundances, masses and ages using q2 (Iván Ramírez)
Friday 4 Aug 2017: Auditório G
Chair: Romina Petrucci
10:00 – 11:00 Simulating the formation of Earths and Super-Earths (André Izidoro)
11:00 – 12:00 Transit Spectroscopy (Jacob Bean)
Chair: Jorge Melendez
- Mass Constraints of the Kepler-46 Planetary System from Transit Timing Variations (Ximena Saad Olivera) [canceled]
- The light curves of planetary rings (Cindy Vanesa Ramírez Gómez) [canceled]
- Characterizing the atmospheres of extrasolar planets in Southern Stars (Romina Petrucci)
- Kepler-96 system: exploring the habitability of its super-Earth and of an hypothetical Earth in an environment of strong superflares (Raissa Estrela)
14:20 - 14:50 Challenges for the future: how to detect Earth 2.0? (Raphaëlle Haywood)
14:50 - 15:20 Highlights (Raphaëlle Haywood, José-Dias do Nascimento Jr., André Izidoro, Iván Ramírez, Jacob Bean)
15:20 - 15:30: Closure, Jorge Meléndez
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