Exoplanet Science with Small Telescopes Precise Radial Velocities
April 24, 25, 26 2017 Bodek Lounge, Perelman Quadrangle, University of Pennsylvania
April 24 (* = remote presentation)
9:00 Registration opens, Coffee and continental breakfast
10:00 – Cullen Blake – Welcome and workshop motivation
10:15 – Jason Eastman – The MINERVA Project
10:30 – Jian Ge – The Dharma Planet Survey
*10:45 – Ryan Terrien (NIST) “High resolution spectroscopy with small telescopes via optical heterodyning”
11:00 – John Michael Brewer – CHIRON and optimizing cadence in RV surveys
11:15 – Marcelo Tala Pinto – A Hi-Res spectrograph for the Waltz Telescope
11:30 – Adam Rains – The RHEA spectrograph
11:45 – Lunch – There are many good food trucks nearby!
1:30 – Discussion Session – The scientific niche for small telescopes having precise RV capabilities.
2:30 – Nate McCrady – MINERVA Scheduling
2:45 – Maurice Wilson – Capabilities of the MINERVA array
3:00 – Coffee and posters
3:45 – Stuart Barnes – Design considerations for high-resolution spectrometers for small telescopes
*4:00 – Justin Crepp – iLocator
4:15 – Peter Plavchan – Earthfinder and MICRONERVA
4:30 – Break for dinner.
Exoplanet Science with Small Telescopes Precise Radial Velocities
April 24, 25, 26 2017 Bodek Lounge, Perelman Quadrangle, University of Pennsylvania
April 25 (* = remote presentation)
9:00 Coffee and continental breakfast
9:30 – Rob Wittenmyer – SONG-Australia: A Dedicated Telescope to Study the Interiors of Stars from their Oscillations
9:45 – Bo Ma – The Dharma Planet Survey Data pipeline
10:00 – Sharon Wang – State of the Art Techniques for Measuring RVs Using an Iodine Cell
10:15 – Ashley Baker – Monitoring Atmospheric Absorption with CAMAL
10:30 – Cullen Blake – MINERVA Red
10:45 – David Sliski – Temperature control systems for small, highresolution spectrometers
11:00 – Christian Schwab – Design of a white pupil Echelle spectrograph for the 0.6m telescope at CWU
Lunch – There are many good food trucks nearby!
*2:00 – Tim Brown – NRES
2:15 – Dave Latham – The Role of Spectroscopy for Confirming and Characterizing TESS Planets
2:30 – Discussion Session – The important role small telescopes can play in TESS follow-up observations
3:30 – Coffee and posters
4:15 – Nicholas Troup – Spectroscopic Orbits from the APOGEE Survey
*4:30 – Dave Rowe – What’s next for small, robotic telescopes?
4:45 – Break for dinner.
6:00 – Dinner at 24 Restaurant (2401 Walnut Street) (map location)
Exoplanet Science with Small Telescopes Precise Radial Velocities
April 24, 25, 26 2017 Bodek Lounge, Perelman Quadrangle, University of Pennsylvania
April 26 (* = remote presentation)
9:00 Coffee and continental breakfast
9:45 – Jonti Horner – Testing Exoplanetary Systems to Destruction
10:00 Steve Gilhool – Rotation statistics for low-mass stars
10:15 “Poster pop” session
10:45 – Discussion Session – Technical issues specific to small telescopes and high-precision Doppler spectrometers
11: 45 – Meeting summary – Cullen Blake
12:00 – Adjourn, head to lunch, visit the UPenn Department of Physics and Astronomy at 209 South 33rd Street, David Rittenhouse Laboratory