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Towards Other Earths III: The Planet-Star connection


Conference programme

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17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July
Monday, 17 July
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome

Topic 1 – Detection
Session 1 – Chair: Vincent Van Eylen
09:15 - 09:45 João Faria (IA)
(IT) Revealing new worlds with precise radial velocities
09:45 - 10:05 Shweta Dalal (University of Exeter)
Predicting convective blueshift and radial-velocity dispersion due to granulation for FGK stars
10:05 - 10:25 Andrea Bonfanti (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Cleaning RV time series from stellar activity: SN-fit and bp-method
10:25 - 11:00 Coffee Break & Posters

Topic 1 – Detection
Session 2 – Chair: Jorge Lillo-Box
11:00 - 11:20 Ancy Anna John (University of St Andrews)
Pushing through the 1 m/s Radial-Velocity barrier in HARPS-N Rocky Planet Search targets
11:20 - 11:40 André M. Silva (IA)
Approaches for RV extraction: s-BART and the first steps towards a fully Bayesian model
11:40 - 12:00 Jennifer Burt (JPL)
An Archival Radial Velocity Survey of Targets for NASA's Direct Imaging Flagship
12:00 - 12:20 Angelica Psaridi (Geneva Observatory)
Exploring the densities of planets orbiting hot stars above the Kraft break
12:20 - 12:40 Elisa Delgado Mena (IA)
Long period RV signals in intermediate mass evolved stars: planets, oscillations or stellar activity?
12:40 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Topic 1 – Atmospheres
Session 1 – Chair: Vincent Bourrier
14:30 - 15:00 James Owen (Imperial College London)
(IT) Escape-driven evolution of exoplanets: demographic trends to compositional evolution
15:00 - 15:20 Daria Kubyshkina (Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
The mass-radius relation of intermediate-mass planets outlined by hydrodynamic escape and thermal evolution
15:20 - 15:40 Daniele Locci (INAF-OAPa)
Signatures of X-ray induced chemistry in exoplanetary atmospheres
15:40 - 16:00 Jorge Fernandez (University of Warwick)
The atmosphere of ultra-hot Neptune LTT 9779 b survived thanks to an unusually X-ray faint star
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break & Posters

Topic 1 – Atmospheres
Session 2 – Chair: David Ehrenreich
16:30 - 16:50 Kevin France (University of Colorado)
Ultraviolet Observations of Exoplanet Host Stars: Inputs for Atmospheric Photochemistry and Escape Calculations
16:50 - 17:10 Leonardo dos Santos (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Atmospheric escape of the young exo-Neptune DS Tuc Ab
17:10 - 17:30 Michael Gully-Santiago (The University of Texas at Austin)
Observing Helium Outflows from Irradiated Exoplanets with HPF: Runaway Mass Loss
Tuesday, 18 July

Topic 2 – Populations
Session 1 – Chair: Monika Lendl
09:00 - 09:30 Katia Biazzo (INAF-Rome)
(IT) Know the star to know the planet
09:30 - 09:50 Edward Bryant (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL)
The Occurrence Rate of Giant Planets Orbiting Low-Mass Stars with TESS
09:50 - 10:10 Matteo Pinamonti (INAF-OATo)
Occurrence rates of Solar System-type architectures across spectral types: a multi-technique approach
10:10 - 10:30 Sheila Sagear (University of Florida)
The Orbital Eccentricity Distribution of Planets Orbiting M dwarfs
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break & Posters

Topic 2 – Populations
Session 2 – Chair: Vardan Adibekyan
11:00 - 11:20 Emily Pass (CA/Harvard-Smithsonian)
The Volume-Complete Survey of Mid-to-Late M Dwarfs within 15pc: Insights on the Spindown of Fully Convective Stars and the Rarity of Jupiter Analogs
11:20 - 11:40 Jesús Maldonado (INAF-OAPa)
M dwarfs analysis and characterisation of exoplanets
11:40 - 12:00 Heather Johnston (University of Leeds)
Giant planet formation around intermediate-mass stars
12:00 - 12:20 Bárbara Soares (IA)
Assessing the processes behind planet engulfment and its imprints
12:20 - 12:40 Jingyi Mah (MPIA)
Forming super-Mercuries: The role of stellar abundances
12:40 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Topic 1 – Atmospheres
Session 3 – Chair: Clara Sousa Silva
14:30 - 15:00 Benjamin Rackham (MIT)
(IT) The impact of stellar activity on the detection and characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres: challenges and opportunities
15:00 - 15:20 William Dethier (IPAG)
Combined analysis of stellar and planetary absorption lines via global forward-transit simulations
15:20 - 15:40 Hritam Chakraborty (Geneva Observatory, Univ. Geneva)
Constraining the impacts of stellar activity on transmission spectroscopy
15:40 - 16:00 Adrien Deline (University of Geneva)
Probing ultra-hot Jupiters with CHEOPS phase curves
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break & Posters

Topic 1 – Atmospheres
Session 4 – Chair: Antonio Garcia Muñoz
16:30 - 16:50 Michal Steiner (Geneva Observatory)
Characterizing transiting exoplanets with high-resolution spectroscopy
16:50 - 17:10 Erik Meier Valdés (Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern)
An exploration of the visible phase curve variability of the super-Earth 55 Cnc e with CHEOPS
17:10 - 17:30 Ana Rita Costa Silva (IA)Neutral iron detection in dayside emission spectra of WASP-76b
Wednesday, 19 July

Topic 3 – Dynamics
Session 1 – Chair: Christina Schoettler
09:00 - 09:30 Antoine Strugarek (CEA Paris-Saclay)
(IT) Detectability of star-planet magnetic interactions
09:30 - 09:50 Joseph Callingham (ASTRON / Leiden University)
Radio stars and exoplanets at low-frequencies: First detections
09:50 - 10:10 John Barnes (Open University)
Planet Discoveries from the Dispersed Matter Planet Project
10:10 - 10:30 Alexandre Correia (University of Coimbra)
Asynchronous rotation for Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of M-dwarf stars
10:30 - 10:50 Maria Helena Moreira Morais (Universidade Estadual Paulista-UNESP)
Retrograde resonances in extrasolar systems
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break & Posters

Topic 2 – Populations
Session 3 – Chair: Elisa Delgado Mena
11:20 - 11:50 Bertram Bitsch (MPIA)
(IT) Stellar abundances and their role in bulk compositions of planets
11:50 - 12:10 Kiersten Boley (The Ohio State University)
Metallicity Cliff: An Abrupt drop in Super-Earth Occurrence around Metal-Poor Stars
12:10 - 12:30 Tim Hallatt (McGill University-iREx)
On the Formation of Planets in the Milky Way's Thick Disk
12:30 - 12:50 Amadeo Castro-González (CAB)
Exploring TOI-244 b and the growing population of low-density super-Earths
12:50 - 13:10 Thomas Wilson (University of St Andrews)
The first four planet M-dwarf system spanning the radius valley contains a rocky, long-period body
Thrusday, 20 July

Topic 2 – Populations
Session 4 – Chair: Vera Passegger
09:00 - 09:30 Giovanna Tinetti (University College London)
(IT) Chemical trends: from individual planets to populations
09:30 - 09:50 Anna Shapiro (MPS)
Planetary UV stress intensifies with stellar metallicity
09:50 - 10:10 David Coria (University of Kansas)
CNO Isotope Ratios Across Exoplanet Systems: Implications for Planet Formation and Atmospheric Composition
10:10 - 10:30 David Charbonneau (Harvard University)
The Occurrence Rate of Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Nearby Mid-to-late M Dwarfs
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break & Posters

Topic 1 – Detection
Session 3 – Chair: Andrew Collier Cameron
11:00 - 11:20 Nuno C. Santos (IA)
Looking at the Sun, finding other Earths: the Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope
11:20 - 11:40 Baptiste Klein (University of Oxford)
Understanding and modelling activity-induced distortions in the absorption lines of Sun-like stars
11:40 - 12:00 Oscar Barragán (University of Oxford)
On the Stellar Signal Modelling with Gaussian Process
12:00 - 12:20 Haochuan Yu (University of Oxford)
A Gaussian process model for stellar activity in 2D CCF time-series
12:20 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Topic 3 – Dynamics
Session 2 – Chair: Alexandre Correia
14:30 - 15:00 Susana Barros (IA)
(IT) Tidal deformation and tidal decay with CHEOPS
15:00 - 15:20 Babatunde Akinsanmi (University of Geneva)
The Shape, Orbit and Atmosphere of the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-12b
15:20 - 15:40 Olga Balsalobre Ruza (Center for Astrobiology CAB)
Genesis of PDS 70 b Trojans hunted with ALMA
15:40 - 16:00 Omar Attia (University of Geneva)
The spin-orbit angle distribution of close-in exoplanets under the lens of tides
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break & Posters

Topic 3 – Dynamics
Session 3 – Chair: Stéphane Udry
16:30 - 17:00 Alexander Mustill (Lund University)
(IT) The evolution of planetary systems through time
17:00 - 17:20 Leon Ka-Wang, Kwok (Geneva Observatory)
Can the stellar dynamical tide destabilize the resonant chains of planets formed in the disk?
17:20 - 17:40 Aurélie Astoul (University of Leeds)
Do non-linear effects disrupt tidal dissipation estimates in the convective envelopes of compact star-planet systems?
19:30 Conference dinner
Friday, 21 July

Topic 2 – Populations
Session 5 – Chair: Nuno Santos
09:30 - 10:00 Gijs Mulders (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez)
(IT) The demographics of exoplanets and its dependence on host star type
10:00 - 10:20 Serena Benatti (INAF-OAPa)
Understanding the evolution of planetary systems with GAPS
10:20 - 10:40 Ignasi Ribas (ICE-CSIC)
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: exoplanet discoveries and insights into stellar astrophysics
10:40 - 11:20 Coffee Break & Posters

Topic 1 – Atmospheres
Session 5 – Chair: Julia Seidel
11:20 - 11:50 Aline Vidotto (Leiden Observatory)
(IT) The impact of stellar activity and winds on the evolution of planets
11:50 - 12:10 Marina Lafarga Magro (University of Warwick)
The hot Neptune WASP-166 b with ESPRESSO: A tentative blue-shifted water signal constrains the presence of clouds
12:10 - 12:30 Eduardo Alexandre de Sousa Cristo (IA)
Unveiling the HD 189733 system with ESPRESSO
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Topic 1 – Detection
Session 4 – Chair: Diana Dragomir
14:30 - 15:00 Sophia Sulis (LAM)
(IT) Characterizing transiting planets in the presence of stellar noise
15:00 - 15:20 Giacomo Mantovan (University of Padova)
The youngest compact multi-planet system with an inner sub-Neptune and an outer warm-Saturn
15:20 - 15:40 Nuno Miguel Rosário (IA)
Constraining the structure and composition of two short-period rocky planets spanning the radius valley
15:40 - 16:00 Hugh Osborn (University of Bern)
Planetary hide & seek: Confirming TESS's hidden long-period planets using CHEOPS
16:00 - 16:20 Neda HEIDARI (IAP)
HD88986: a multi-planet system with a temperate transiting sub-Neptune and a wide-orbit Jupiter mass planet
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break & Posters

Conference End
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia COMPETE 2020 PORTUGAL 2020 União Europeia