Kepler News and Results

Predicting Planets in Kepler Multi-Planet Systems - identifying regions of stability between the known planet candidates.

Debris Disks in Kepler Exoplanet Systems - some weird things going on there: the inferred debris discs in some of the systems have very short predicted lifetimes.

NASA's Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepscicon-briefing.html

Watch the conference
http://www.universetoday.com/76578/watch-kepler-press-conference-today-live-on-universe-today/

There's now 2326 candidates !! (1000+ more than last report in february)

where you get this pictures?

here : http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=165
(pdf)

Sirius_Alpha wrote:

It's the other way around. Scaling up the size of the star, the transit depths of its planets will shrink. So the planets must scale up as well to preserve the transit depth.

Transit depth = R_star / R_pl

OOOOps, you are right. What a mistake!!

Kepler-22b.

If I' m right, the transit probability of this planet is about 0.54%. Taking into account a stellar magnitude of 11.6, in this star, and less than 2.000 G dwarf stars within than magnitude in the field of view... it implies 10% of miniNeptunes-big superearths in the HZs.

Very good news

It's a little bigger than I was hoping. I'm guessing it's more a mini-Neptune than a solid terrestrial planet. A 2.2 Earth-radii ball of solids would have been massive enough to undergo runaway accretion into a gas giant, so I believe this planet is probably a GJ 1214 b type world.

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog

2 Confirmed Habitable Exoplanets
14 Candidate Habitable Exoplanets

28 Confirmed Habitable Exomoons
6 Candidate Habitable Exomoons

*Exomoons are inferred from planetary dynamics, but none observed yet. (Mongo: I assume that they have been detected via transit timing variations)

Update: The recent confirmation of Kepler 22b (KOI-087) does not qualify as a potential habitable exoplanet on the catalog. It is in the habitable zone of the star but it is also too big and classified here as a Warm Neptunian. Most of the interesting exoplanets in our catalog are Kepler objects too just waiting for confirmation as Kepler 22b did today.

I agree with the site about Kepler-22 b, but I'm curious as to where they get the moons...

Mongo wrote:

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog

2 Confirmed Habitable Exoplanets
14 Candidate Habitable Exoplanets

28 Confirmed Habitable Exomoons
6 Candidate Habitable Exomoons

*Exomoons are inferred from planetary dynamics, but none observed yet. (Mongo: I assume that they have been detected via transit timing variations)

Update: The recent confirmation of Kepler 22b (KOI-087) does not qualify as a potential habitable exoplanet on the catalog. It is in the habitable zone of the star but it is also too big and classified here as a Warm Neptunian. Most of the interesting exoplanets in our catalog are Kepler objects too just waiting for confirmation as Kepler 22b did today.

I'm curious where all this information come from??? Is there any scientific paper about this habitable zone exomoons and exoplanets?

The site looks a lot more like a sort of ameture armchair worldbuilder's site using KOI candidates, than an actual scientific source. The giveaway was this page, which offers far more data (including qualitative data seemingly pulled out of thin air) than is known.

"2 Confirmed Habitable Exoplanets
28 Confirmed Habitable Exomoons"

specifically about it

I'm very intriguing about this information. this is all look suspicious

According to this news story, and this one too, this website is owned by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, and is run by Abel Méndez, a professor there.

"I'm a planetary scientist and director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. The PHL is a research and educational virtual laboratory dedicated to studies of the habitability of Earth, the Solar System, and extrasolar planets. Our main approach is to use the evolution of terrestrial habitability, from paleoclimates to climate change, as a baseline for comparisons."

Here is a press release about the unveiling of the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. It apparently was only publicly released today:

"Details of the catalogue were due to be described at the Kepler science conference at Nasa's Ames facility in California on Monday."

It sounds legitimate to me, they may have access to unpublished data from the Kepler team.

Yes, playing around with the mass-radius relationships given here strongly implies that Kepler-22b is almost certainly a mini-Neptune.

Most optimistic scenario would be a planet with a high fraction of ice in its makeup (the 75% ice model ends up below 10 Earth masses), this could give you an ocean 100km deep or so above a mantle of high-pressure ice, with a small silicate/iron core at the centre of the planet. Such an ocean is probably not too good a bet for life because of the issues with getting material (such as minerals and other elements necessary for life) from the core to the ocean.

I saw in Kepler science conference slides about Habitable planet catalog web site, look like the not so suspicious at all.

amazing news!

But I want know more details about it

https://sites.google.com/a/upr.edu/planetary-habitability-laboratory-upra/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog-old
estimated candidates from planetary formation dynamics.

For me: language - Sirius Alpha

The first exomoons would be announced officialy, not just in some news story websites...

Yes exactly stalker besides detecting exomoon is hard as short period planet can have problem to maintain moons at all and longer need at least 50-100 transits to see anything in the data.The info about exomoon is a joke

According to the discovery of kepler 22 b is very interesting but without mass determined we do not know the composition and density .Neverthelles it is typical mini neptune with density max 2.5 g/cm3.That is strange none closer transiting planets in that system? to enable mass measure by ttv.If we want to have rocky super earth hipothetical planet has to have radius smaller than 1.5 earth

I agree with you Stalker and tommi59.

the exomoon case of this web site is "too much talk and less action"

long as not see any official statement about exomoons of any kind, habitable or not, for me this is only misinformation

The web site has a disclaimer about the exomoons - it says they are inferred (from mathematical modelling I'm guessing) and that no direct evidence exists.

There's no need to be so negative about this.

p.s. apart from the directly imaged exoplanets, all of the other "known/confirmed" exoplanets are sort of inferred to one degree or another.

I dug into the site, and it appears that when they are talking about exomoons, they mean gas giants that are sufficiently large to plausibly host orbiting Earth-like moons.

The Mass and Radius of Potential Exomoons

Latest List of Potential Habitable Exoplanets and Exomoons

They are using the same planet to largest moon ratios seen in our solar system for the gas and ice giants (Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune all at about 3000:1, Uranus at about 10000:1)

They then use this ratio to estimate the mass of the largest moons of gas giants that are already known to be in the star's habitable zone.

So yes, the exomoon numbers are speculation based on solar system statistics. They do state on the home page that no exomoons have been observed yet, but they could be more clear that the listed exomoon statistics are conjectural.

edit -- I agree with tesh90. There is no need to be so nasty about this new website, you people are only making yourselves look petty. The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog is still a very interesting and useful website that I intend to regularly visit. They are also regularly updating this week:

"This week (December 5th to 9th) is running the First Kepler Science Conference at NASA Ames in California and new results and updates are expected. Additional updated resources, including the scientific tables and plots, will be added during this week."

Monday at the Kepler conference, The kepler team announced another 1000 candidates, many in the earth size, but surprizingly some giants in the 10 to 50 day ranges. So 400% more small earth size candidates and 22% more Jupiter.
Another news is the release of data for quarter 4,5,6 on January 7 and the complete release for September 1st.

Many talks on the formation of the small Neptune, as potential water world or rocky world with an atmospher of H/He
Sorry for this very short message.

Any online live transmission about kepler 20?

Kepler Science Conference Program

MONDAY, December 5

8:00 - 8:30 am Registration + pick up materials Building 152, Rooms 105-106. Unless specified, all sessions, breaks and poster sessions will be in Bldg. 152

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome Remarks.
Pete Worden, Center Dir., NASA ARC;
Roger Hunter, Kepler Project Mgr., NASA ARC;
William Borucki, PI Kepler Mission, NASA ARC;
Matt Holman, Kepler Science Conference Chair, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

SESSION A - KEPLER MISSION AND EXOPLANET STATISTICS
Alan Boss (chair) Carnegie Institution

8:45 - 9:15 101 · The Kepler Mission and Exoplanet Statistics. Greg Laughlin (invited) University of California, Santa Cruz

9:15 - 9:45 102 · CoRoT Exoplanet Search. Claire Moutou (invited) Laboratory of Astrophysics, Marseille

9:45 - 10:15 103 · Kepler Mission and Exoplanet Statistics. William Borucki (invited) NASA Ames Research Center

10:15 - 10:45 104 · Kepler's Exoplanet Survey: Honing in on eta-Earth. Natalie Batalha (invited) San Jose State University

10:45 - 11:15 BREAK

11:15 - 11:30 105 · Overview of the Kepler Science Operations Center Pipeline. Jon Jenkins, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center

11:30 - 11:45 106 · Detection of Threshold Crossing Events in the First Three Quarters of Kepler Data. Peter Tenenbaum, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center

11:45 - 12:00 107 · Uniform Modeling of the Kepler Objects of Interest Catalog. Jason Rowe, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center

12:00 - 12:15 108 · Kepler Completeness Study. Jessie Christiansen, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center

12:15 - 12:30 109 · Noise Sources Impacting Kepler's Photometry and Mission Goals. Douglas Caldwell, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center

12:30 - 12:45 110 · Using Spitzer to Estimate the Kepler False Positive Rate and to Validate Kepler Candidates. Jean-Michel Desert, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

12:45 - 2:15 LUNCH ON SITE, Building 3, Demos of Kepler User Data

SESSION B - EARTH ANALOG AND SUB-NEPTUNE-SIZE PLANETS
Sara Seager (chair) Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:15 - 2:45 111 · Patterns of Low-mass Planet Occurrence from Kepler and Doppler Planet Searches. Andrew Howard (invited) University of California, Berkeley

2:45 - 3:15 112 · Occurrence, Mass Distribution and Orbital Properties of Super-Earths and Neptune-Mass Planets from the HARPS Survey. Christophe Lovis (invited) University of Geneva

3:15 - 3:30 113 · Formation and Structure of Neptune-size Exoplanets. Peter Bodenheimer, UCO/Lick Observatory, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

3:30 - 3:45 114 · RV Follow-Up of Small Planets from Kepler: Verification, Masses, and Densities. Geoff Marcy, University of California, Berkeley

3:45 - 4:00 115 · RV Follow-Up of Small Planets from Kepler: Planet Bulk Composition and Interior Structure. Leslie Rogers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:00 - 4:30 BREAK

4:30 - 4:45 116 · Limits from Kepler and the MEarch Project on the Occurrence Rate of Super-Earths and Neptunes Around M Dwarfs. Courtney Dressing, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

4:45 - 5:00 117 · Kepler Transit Frequency Statistics in the Presence of Statistical False Positives. Philip Nutzman, University of California, Santa Cruz

5:00 - 5:15 118 · The Validation of Earth-size Planets. Francois Fressin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

5:15 - 5:30 119 · Kepler-11: Super-Earths or Mini-Neptunes? Constraints from Mass Loss. Eric Lopez, University of California, Santa Cruz

5:30 - 5:45 120 · The Chemistry of Planet Formation: Detailed Abundances of Stars with Low-Mass Planets Discovered by Kepler. Simon Schuler, NOAO

5:45 - 6:00 121 · When is an Earth-analog Really an Earth-analog? Jill Tarter, SETI Institute

6:00 - 8:00 POSTER SESSION, Room 117

TUESDAY, December 6

8:00 - 8:30 am Registration + pick up materials Building 152, Rooms 105-106

SESSION A CONTINUED - KEPLER MISSION AND EXOPLANET STATISTICS

8:30 - 8:45 201 · Kepler Exoplanet Candidate Host Stars are Preferentially Metal Rich. Kevin Schlaufman, University of California, Santa Cruz

8:45 - 9:00 202 · Follow-up Observations and Modelling of Kepler Circumbinary Planet Candidates. Jerome Orosz, San Diego State University

9:00 - 9:15 203 · Validation of Habitable-Zone Super Earth Kepler Candidates with Warm Spitzer. Sarah Ballard, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

9:15 - 9:30 204 · Accurate Stellar Parameters of Low-Mass Kepler Planet Hosts. Philip Muirhead, California Institute of Technology

9:30 - 9:45 205 · Measuring the Physical Properties of Kepler's M Dwarf Planet Hosts. John Johnson, Caltech

10:00 - 10:30 BREAK

10:30 - 10:45 206 · Assessing the Kepler Inventory with Planet Hunters. Megan Schwamb, Yale University

10:45 - 11:00 207 · What will Gaia do for Kepler?. Alessandro Sozzetti, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino

11:00 - 11:15 208 · Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). George Ricker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:15 - 11:30 209 · SOFIA: Capabilities for Studying Exoplanets in the Kepler Era and Beyond. Bill Reach. [addendum]

11:45 – 12:00 Kepler in an Extended Mission. Steve Howell, Kepler Deputy Project Scientist. [addendum]

11:30 - 11:45 210 · Astrophysics with Kepler During an Extended Mission. Martin Still, NASA Ames Research Ctr/ Bay Area Environmental Research Inst.

12:00 – 12:15 Recent Operational Improvements to High Precision Photometric Observations with Warm IRAC. Sean Carey. [addendum]

12:00 - 2:00 LUNCH ON SITE, Building 3, Support for Community Involvement in Kepler for Follow-up Observing and the Extended Mission, Chair: Steve Howell

SESSION C - MULTIPLE PLANET SYSTEMS
Jack Lissauer (chair) NASA Ames Research Center

2:00 - 2:15 211 · Statistical Arguments that Most Kepler Multi-Planet Candidates are Real Planets. Jack Lissauer, NASA Ames Research Center

2:15 - 2:45 212 · Detailed Dynamical Portraits of Other Planetary Systems. Daniel Fabrycky (invited) University of California, Santa Cruz

2:45 - 3:00 213 · The Kepler-18 Three Planet System. William Cochran, McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin

3:00 - 3:15 214 · The Multiple Planet System Kepler-20. Nick Gautier, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

3:15 - 3:30 215 · In Situ Planet Formation Models of the Kepler-11 Six Planet System. Elisa Quintana, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center

3:30 - 4:00 BREAK

4:00 - 4:15 216 · Detection of Quasi-periodic Transiting Planets with Kepler. Eric Agol, University of Washington

4:15 - 4:30 217 · Eccentricities & Inclinations in Kepler's Planetary Systems. Eric Ford, University of Florida

4:30 - 4:45 218 · Constraining Orbital Eccentricity through Transit Photometry Alone: Multibody Asterodensity Profiling (MAP). Varun Manthri, University College London

4:45 - 5:00 219 · Confirmation and Characterization of Multitransiting Exoplanet Systems with Anti-Correlated Transit Timing Variations. Jason Steffen, Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics

5:00 - 5:15 220 · The Secular Character of Multi-planet Systems: Kepler-10, 11 and 16. Christa Van Laerhoven, The University of Arizona

5:15 - 5:30 221 · Analysis of 224 Kepler Exoplanets in 93 Multiple Systems. David Ciardi, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute/Caltech

5:30 ADJOURN

7:00 PUBLIC TALKS, Building 152, Room 171

7:00 - 7:30 Natalie Batalha

7:45 - 8:15 Donald Kurtz

WEDNESDAY, December 7

8:00 - 8:30 am Registration + pick up materials Building 152, Rooms 105-106

SESSION D - EXOPLANET THEORY
Dimitar Sasselov (chair) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

8:30 - 9:00 301 · Using the Composition of Super-Earths to Track Formation Processes. Diana Valencia (invited) Massachusetts Institute of Technology

9:00 - 9:15 302 · Accumulation of Hydrogen-Rich Atmospheres of Nebular Origin on Short-Period Super-Earths: Implications for Kepler-11 Planets. Masahiro Ikoma, Tokyo Institute of Technology

9:15 - 9:30 303 · Core Erosion in Gas Giant Exoplanets Predicted from Ab Initio Simulations. Burkhard Militzer, University of California, Berkeley

9:30 - 9:45 304 · Theoretical Issues for Rocky Planet Interiors Near 1.0 Earth-mass and M-R Relations. Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

9:45 - 10:00 305 · Planet Formation and the Diversity of Planetary Systems. Benjamin Bromley, University of Utah

10:00 - 10:30 BREAK

10:30 - 10:45 306 · The Final Stage of Terrestrial Planet Formation. Eiichiro Kokubo, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

10:45 - 11:00 307 · Snagging an Earth-Class Exoplanetary Moon. Darren Williams, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

11:00 - 11:15 308 · Are Hot Neptunes Partially Evaporated Hot Jupiters?. Gwenael Boue, CAUP

11:15 - 11:30 309 · Transit Constraints for a General Planet Formation Theory Provided by CoRoT and Kepler. Gunther Wuchterl, Thüringer Landessternwarte, CoRoT (DLR)

11:30 - 11:45 310 · Formation and Diversity of Planetary Systems around M dwarfs: Toward the Next-Generation Observations. Yasunori Hori, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

11:45 - 2:00 LUNCH ON SITE, Building 3, Discussion, Kepler Data Analysis Workshop

SESSION E · GIANT PLANETS AND PLANET ATMOSPHERES
Jonathan Fortney (chair) University of California, Santa Cruz


2:00 - 2:30 311 · Kepler Giant Planet Discoveries. Sara Seager (invited) Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:30 - 2:45 312 · The Heavy-Element Masses of Extrasolar Giant Planets, Revealed. Jonathan Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz

2:45 - 3:00 313 · Kepler's Dark and Reflective Worlds. Brice-Olivier Demory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:00 - 3:15 314 · Albedo Spectra of Extrasolar Giant Planets. Mark Marley, NASA Ames Research Center

3:15 - 3:45 BREAK

3:45 - 4:00 315 · Search for Secondary Eclipses of Hot Jupiters in Kepler Q2 Light Curves. Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Inst. de Ciencies de L'Espai (CSIC-IEEC), Spain

4:00 - 4:15 316 · Asymmetric Transit Curves as Indication of Orbital Obliquity: Stars and Companion in KOI-13. Gyula Szabo, Konkoly Observatory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

4:15 - 4:30 317 · Interpreting Geometric Albedos, Phase Curves, and Polarization of Reflected Light from Exoplanets. Nikku Madhusudhan, Princeton University

4:30 - 4:45 318 · Constraints on the True Obliquity of the Orbit of HAT-P-7b. Joshua Carter, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

4:45 - 5:00 319 · Measuring the Spin-Orbit Misalignment of KOI-13.01 from Kepler Transit Photometry Using Gravity Darkening. Jason Barnes, University of Idaho

5:00 - 5:15 320 · Clues of the Origins of Hot Jupiters. Amaury Triaud, Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève

5:15 ADJOURN

THURSDAY, December 8

8:00 - 8:30 am Registration + pick up materials Building 152, Rooms 105-106

SESSION F - ECLIPSING AND INTERACTING BINARIES
William Welsh (chair) San Diego State University

8:30 - 9:00 401 · Kepler Harvest of Eclipsing Binary Stars. Andrej Prsa (invited) Villanova University

9:00 - 9:15 402 · KOI-54: A Remarkable Periastron-Pumped Pulsating Binary Star. William Welsh, San Diego State University

9:15 - 9:30 403 · Heartbeat Stars: A Class of Tidally Excited Eccentric Binaries. Susan Thompson, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center

9:30 - 9:45 404 · Tests of Age, Mass, and Radius from Binary Stars in Open Clusters. Eric Sandquist, San Diego State University

9:45 - 10:00 405 · An Eclipsing White Dwarf-M Dwarf System Observed with Kepler. Roi Alonso, Observatoire Astronomique de l'Univ. de Genève, Switzerland

10:00 - 10:30 BREAK

10:30 - 10:45 406 · Circumbinary Companions of Intermediate-Mass Eclipsing Binary Stars. Douglas Gies, Georgia State University

10:45 - 11:00 407 · Photometric Detection of Non-transiting Short-period Binaries Through the Beaming, Ellipsoidal and Reflection Effects in the Kepler Light Curves. Tsevi Mazeh, Tel Aviv University

11:00 - 11:15 408 · Dynamical Tides in Aeccentric Binaries and Tidally Excited Stellar Pulsations in Kepler KOI-54. Jim Fuller, Cornell University

11:15 - 11:30 409 · Kepler Observations of Rapid Optical Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei. Rick Edelson, University of Maryland

11:30 - 1:30 LUNCH OFF SITE

SESSION G · STELLAR ACTIVITY AND ROTATION
Andrea Dupree (chair) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

1:30 - 2:00 410 · Early Results from Kepler on Stellar Activity. Gibor Basri (invited) University of California, Berkeley

2:00 - 2:15 411 · The Flaring Behavior of G Stars Observed by Kepler. David Soderblom, Space Telescope Science Institute

2:15 - 2:45 412 · Starspotting: Looking at Kepler Data for Insight into Stellar Magnetic Activity. Lucianne Walkowicz (invited) Princeton University

2:45 - 3:00 413 · Spot Evolution and Differential Rotation on Sun-like Stars. Svetlana Berdyugina, KIS, Freiburg

3:00 - 3:30 BREAK + POSTER SESSION, Room 117

3:30 - 3:45 414 · New Methods to Model Activity-Induced Signals in Photometry and Radial Velocity. Suzanne Aigrain, University of Oxford

3:45 - 4:00 415 · Starspots and Spin-orbit Alignment for Kepler Planetary Systems. Roberto Sanchis Ojeda, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:00 - 4:30 416 · The Kepler Cluster Study and Stellar Rotation in Clusters. Soren Meibom (invited) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

4:30 - 6:30 POSTER SESSION, Room 117

6:30 ADJOURN

FRIDAY, December 9

8:00 - 8:30 am Registration + pick up materials Building 152, Rooms 105-106

SESSION H - ASTEROSEISMOLOGY
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard (chair) University of Aarhus, Denmark

8:30 - 9:00 501 · Asteroseismology: New Insights in Variable Stars in the Classical Instability Strip. Donald Kurtz (invited) University of Central Lancashire

9:00 - 9:30 502 · The Physics of Stochastic Excitation. Peter Goldreich (invited) California Institute of Technology

9:30 - 9:45 503 · Asteroseismology of the Solar Analogs 16 Cyg A & B from Kepler Observations. Travis Metcalfe, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR

9:45 - 10:00 504 · Observational Constraints, Stellar Models, and Kepler Data for Theta Cyg, the Brightest Star Observable in the Kepler Field of View. Joyce Guzik, Los Alamos National Laboratory

10:00 - 10:15 505 · Seismic Age Calibration and Heavy-element Abundance in Solar-type Stars. Guenter Houdek, Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna

10:15 - 10:45 BREAK

SESSION I · ENSEMBLE ASTEROSEISMOLOGY OF SOLAR-TYPE STARS
Hans Kjeldsen (chair) University of Aarhus, Denmark

10:45 - 11:15 506 · Ensemble Asteroseismology of Solar-type Stars. Bill Chaplin (invited) University of Birmingham

11:15 - 11:45 507 · Asteroseismic Modelling of Kepler Stars. Sarbani Basu (invited) Yale University

11:45 - 12:00 508 · Long-baseline Interferometry Follow-up of Kepler Stars Using the CHARA Array. Daniel Huber, NASA Ames Research Center/ University of Sydney

12:00 - 12:15 509 · Asteroseismic Analysis of Two Sun-like Kepler Subgiants: KIC11395018 and KIC10920273. Gulnur Dogan, NCAR/High Altitude Observatory

12:15 - 2:15 LUNCH OFF SITE

SESSION J · RED GIANT OSCILLATIONS
Thomas Kallinger (chair) Ku Leuven

2:15 - 2:45 510 · Asteroseismology of Red Giants. Tim Bedding (invited) School of Physics, University of Sydney

2:45 - 3:00 511 · Red Giants Unveiled. Benoit Mosser, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris

3:00 - 3:15 512 · The Intersection of Asteroseismology and Abundances. Courtney Epstein, Ohio State University

3:15 - 3:30 513 · Probing the Inner Rotation Profile of the Subgiant KIC7341231. Sebastien Deheuvels, Yale University

FINAL TALK · ASTROBIOLOGY

3:30 - 4:00 514 · Astrobiology. Carl Pilcher (invited) NASA Ames Research Center

4:00 ADJOURN

PDF of program including posters

(Very interesting reading)