PLATO Ground-based Observation Program (GOP)

Workshop 2022

17--19 October 2022
Observatoire de Genève, Versoix, Switzerland

GENERALITIES

Session 1: Information and landscape

EXOPLANETS

Session 2: Radial Velocity instruments, requirements and operations

  • RV instrument requirements, Benchmark and foreseen operation & coordination [François Bouchy] → slides, recording
  • Recent development in RV technics + new instruments [Francesco Pepe] → slides, recording
  • Existing facilities + Recon spectroscopy [Eike Günther] → slides, recording
  • Combining TTVs and RV for mass determination [Dan Fabrycky] → slides, recording

Session 3: Radial velocity extraction & analysis

  • Small-planets at long period : A test case for PLATO, HIP 41378 [Alexandre Santerne] → slides, recording
  • Lessons learned from RV FU of long-period Kepler and TESS small-size candidates [Nolan Grieves] → slides, recording
  • Modelling or mitigating stellar noise [Luca Malavolta] → slides
  • Recent development in RV Extraction and analysis [Xavier Dumusque] → slides

Session 4: Vetting I: Time critical photometry

  • Strategy, needs, deliverables [Roi Alonso] → slides, recording
  • Benefits of photometric follow up: when is it useful, and what do we need? [Hans Deeg] → slides, recording
  • Operating the Muscat2 transit follow-up program: an example of TESS follow-up [Enric Pallé] → recording
  • Citizen science [Günther Wuchterl] → recording

Session 5: Vetting II: Imaging (needs, science and outputs)

  • Need for imaging follow-up in the Gaia era [Markus Janson] → slides, recording
  • Community tools for imaging archive data: SPHERE-DC and DIVA [Philippe Delorme] → slides, recording
  • Science with imaging vetting data [Mariangela Bonavita] → slides, recording
  • TOI-179: a test case of a transiting system characterised through high contrast imaging [Silvano Desidera] → slides, recording
  • Discussion → recording

Session 6: Non-standard cases, science enhancement and implications for GOP activities

  • Mono-transit and plan for complementary ground-based observations (implications for obs. strategy) [Paul Strøm] → slides, recording
  • Use of dynamical knowledge to improve follow-up efficiency [Adrien Leleu] → slides, recording
  • Exo-comets [Alain Lecavelier des Etangs] → recording
  • Circumbinary planets [Amaury Triaud] → slides, recording

SYNERGIES WITH OTHER SPACE MISSIONS

Session 7: Role of the GOP in enhancing synergies with other space missions

STELLAR SCIENCE

Sessions 8-9: Stellar parameter determination (with and without asteroseismology)

  • “Systematic” limitations of estimates from high-resolution spectra [Thierry Morel] → slides, recording
  • Stellar activity, rotation, ages [Antonio Lanza] → slides, recording
  • Chemical abundances [Morgan Deal] → slides, recording
  • Calibrators [Nikki Miller] → slides, recording
  • Interferometric radius measurements [Denis Mourard] → slides, recording
  • Importance of polarimetry [Pascal Petit] → recording
  • Multi-object spectroscopy [Maria Bergemann] → recording
  • Complementary topics on stellar science [Andrew Tkachenko] → slides, recording

GENERALITIES

Session 10: General closing discussion → recording

  • Enhancement of scientific return (non-core exoplanet science)  
  • Broader involvement of the community
  • Non-core sample science 
  • Others

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