Fall 2012
From Exoplanet Reading Group
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10/1/12
Introductory Meeting
3 minutes from each of the ~20 attendees
TAAC 67
[[ 10/2/12
"Fast track to find an inhabited exoplanet" Brinson Lecture, Adler Planetarium
David Charbonneau from Harvard University ]]
[[ 10/3/12
"How to Find the Nearest Habitable Exoplanets" Astro Dept. Colloquium
David Charbonneau from Harvard University ]]
[[ 10/8/12
"Characterizing Super-Earth Exoplanets with Transmission Spectroscopy:
Applications to GJ1214b" Theory underlying observations of transits.
Bjoern Benneke visitor from MIT ]]
[[ 10/11/12
"Transit Anomalies in Extrasolar Planets"
Geza Kovacs visitor from Konkoly Observatory, Budapest ]]
10/15/12
"Alignment of the stellar spin with the orbits of a three-planet system" Sanchis-Ojeda, Fabrycky, Winn, et al. 2012
"Planet-Planet Eclipse and the Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect of a Multiple Transiting System: Joint Analysis of the Subaru Spectroscopy and the Kepler Photometry" Hirano et al. 2012
Dan Fabrycky
Hinds 451
[[ 10/26/12 @ 3:30 "Atmospheric chemistry of water worlds" seminar
by Ray Pierrehumbert in Hinds 101 ]]
10/29/12
"An Earth-mass planet orbiting α Centauri B" Dumusque et al. 2012
Laura Kreidberg
Hinds 451
[[Tues. 11/6/12 @ 1:00 "Indication of insensitivity of weathering behavior and
habitable zone to surface land fraction" practice seminar by Dorian
Abbot in Hinds 451]]
11/12/12
40 min: "Two nearby sub-Earth-sized exoplanet candidates in the GJ 436 system" Stevenson et al. 2012; Kevin Stevenson
20 min: "Kepler-47: A Transiting Circumbinary Multiplanet System" Orosz et al. 2012; Daniel Koll
[[ 11/14/12 "Infrared Spectroscopy of Extrasolar Planetary Atmospheres" Astronomy Colloquium Drake Deming visitor from University of Maryland, College Park ]]
11/26/12
"Discovery of a Candidate for the Coolest Known Brown Dwarf" Luhman et al. 2011
"Discovery of a Companion at the L/T Transition with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer" Loutrel et al. 2011
Camilo Delgado
12/10/12
"Direct Imaging Discovery of a `Super-Jupiter' Around the late B-Type Star Kappa And" Carson et al. 2012
Joe Carson visitor from College of Charleston
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