February 3 - 7, 2025 • Ramo Hall on the Caltech Campus

#KnowThyStar2

Agenda

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  Monday 2025 February 03
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  Time      
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  08:00-09:00     Registration Check-In
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  08:45-09:00 PDF Video David Ciardi (NExScI-Caltech/IPAC) Welcoming Remarks
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    Stellar Properties of Exoplanet Host stars I
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  09:00-09:15 PDF Video Dan Huber
(U. of Hawaii)
How Well Do We Really Know Our Stars?
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  09:15-09:30
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  09:30-09:45 PDF Video Zafar Rustamkulov (JHU) The Transit Age: Precise Main Sequence Planet Host Ages in the Era of Gaia and JWST
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  09:45-10:00 PDF Video Luke Bouma (Caltech) Ages For Exoplanet Host Stars: Rotation & Lithium in the Kepler Field
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  10:00-10:15 PDF Video Tim Bedding (U Sydney) Should We Trust Asteroseismic Scaling Relations?
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  10:15-10:30 PDF Video Isabel Angelo (UCLA) Searching for Unresolved Binaries Among Kepler's Planet Hosts
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  10:30-11:00 30 min Break
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  11:00-11:15 PDF Video Jamie Tayar
(UFlorida)
Host Star Properties: Possibilities, Hopes, and Uncertainties
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  11:15-11:30
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  11:30-11:45 PDF Video Angharad Weeks (UCL) The Galactic Context of sub-Neptunes and the Radius Valley
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  11:45-12:00 PDF Video Aida Behmard (CCA) Examining Planet Formation with Detailed M Dwarf Host Star Chemistry
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  12:00-12:15 PDF Video Travis Metcalfe (WDRC) Spectropolarimetry: a tool to characterize exoplanet host stars
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  12:15-12:30 PDF Video Jack Lubin (UC Irvine) Delivering accurate and precise vsini measurements in the sub-2 km/s regime to reveal small planet obliquities
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  12:30-14:00 Lunch
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    Stellar Activity and Variability I
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  14:00-14:15 PDF   Rachael Roettenbacher
(U. Michigan)
The Impact of Stellar Activitiy on Dectecting and Characterizing Planets
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  14:15-14:30
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  14:30-14:45 PDF Video Robert Oliver Parke Loyd (Eureka) Beyond Light: Why Thy Star’s Corpuscular Space Weather is Key for Understanding Exoplanets
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  14:45-15:00 PDF Video Jessica Libby-Roberts (PSU) A Spot of Trouble: Examining Stellar Activity of TOI-3884 and Its Impact on Its Super-Neptune Companion
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  15:00-15:15 PDF Video Michael Palumbo (Flatiron) Resolving Granulation-Driven Line Distortions in Disk-Integrated Solar Spectra
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  15:15-15:30 PDF Video Sara Seager (MIT) The Curious Case of Dark Faculae on M dwarf Stars
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  15:30-16:00 30 min Break
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    Sun as a Star
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  16:00-16:15 PDF Video Bill Chaplin
(Birmingham)
The Sun as a Star
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  16:15-16:30
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  16:30-16:45     Marcelo Emilio
(Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa)
Measuring Solar Radius with Planetary Transits
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  16:45-17:00 PDF Video Niamh O'Sullivan (U Oxford) Enhancing Exoplanet Detection: Tackling Supergranulation in Earth-Twin Surveys using the HARPS-N Solar Data
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  17:00-17:15 PDF Video Elizabeth Gonzalez (PSU) Shining Light on Granulation: Using Solar Eclipses to Advance Radial Velocity Models for Granulation Mitigation
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  17:15-17:30 PDF Video Sara Tavella (U Geneva) Pushing down the solar radial velocity precision to 50 cm/s with a data-driven correction at the spectral level
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  Tuesday 2025 February 04
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  Time      
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  08:45-09:00     Opening Remarks
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    Trends in Stellar and Exoplanetary Systems Architectures and Demographics I
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  09:00-09:15 PDF Video Jessie Christiansen
(NExScI-Caltech/IPAC)
Location, Location, Location: Exoplanets as a Function of Host Stars and Galactic Zipcode
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  09:15-09:30
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  09:30-09:45 PDF Video Songhu Wang (Indiana) Stellar Mass, Not Metallicity, Drives Dynamically Hot Properties of Hot Jupiters
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  09:45-10:00 PDF Video Laura Rogers (NOIRLab) Probing Exoplanetary Composition using White Dwarf Stars
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  10:00-10:15 PDF Video Greg Gilbert (UCLA) Planets larger than Neptune have elevated eccentricities
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  10:15-10:30 PDF Video Gudmundur Stefansson (Princeton) Spectroscopic Confirmation of Gaia Astrometric Exoplanet Candidates
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  10:30-11:00 30 min Break
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  11:00-11:15 PDF Video Eve Lee
(UCSD)
Star-Planet Interaction and Small Planet Demographics
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  11:15-11:30
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  11:30-11:45 PDF Video Stephen Schmidt (JHU) Time-resolving Hot Jupiter System Evolution with Population-level Stellar Age Inferences
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  11:45-12:00 PDF Video Samuel Yee (CfA Harvard SAO) The Ultimate Fates of Hot Jupiters
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  12:00-12:15 PDF   Harshitha M Parashivamurthy (University of Chile) TESS Insights into the Impact of Stellar Mass on the Exoplanet Radius Valley
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  12:15-12:30 PDF Video Anne Dattilo ( UCSC) The Stellar Dependence of the Radius Cliff
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  12:30-14:00 Lunch
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    Stellar Properties II and Stellar Activity II
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  14:00-14:15 PDF Video David Wilson (Colorado) Ultraviolet and X-ray Characterisation of JWST and HWO Planet Host Stars
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  14:15-14:30 PDF Video Jose Sebastian Carrazco Gaxiola (GSU) Chromospheric Activity, Lithium, and Rotational Velocities Among 1600 K dwarfs within 40 pc
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  14:30-14:45 PDF Video Aneesh Baburaj (UCSD) Directly imaged host star abundances as tracers for planet formation and occurrence
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  14:45-15:00 PDF Video Federica Rescigno (U Birmingham) The mean longitudinal magnetic field for RV stellar activity analysis
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  15:00-15:15 PDF Video Arvind Gupta (NOIRLab) Following the flows: coordinated observations of stellar supergranulation with EPRV facilities across the globe
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  15:15-15:30 PDF Video Prajwal Niraula (EAPS, MIT) Unveiling spot coverages of exoplanetary host stars with HST
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  15:30-19:00 Free Time for Networking
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  19:00 - 21:00 Conference Dinner: The Caltech Athenaeum
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  Wednesday 2025 February 05
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  Time      
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  08:45-09:00     Opening Remarks
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    Influence of Stellar Properties on Inferred Planet Properties
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  09:00-09:15 PDF Video Elisabeth Newton
(Dartmouth)
Transiting Planets Around Young, Active Stars
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  09:15-09:30
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  09:30-09:45 PDF Video Jeff Valenti (STScI) Limb Darkening for JWST Spectroscopic Light Curves: Theory vs. Data
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  09:45-10:00 PDF Video Nathanael Allen Burns-Watson (UT Austin) Know Thy Host Star: Determining Host Stars for Planets in Binary Star Systems Using Asterodensity Profiling
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  10:00-10:15 PDF Video Galen Bergsten (UArizona) Correcting for Unresolved Stellar Companions in Kepler Occurrence Rates
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  10:15-10:30 PDF Video Kevin Schluafman (JHU) Stars and Their Planets: Are Terrestrial Exoplanet Internal Constraints dependent on host star analysis methodology?
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  10:30-11:00 30 min Break
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  11:00-11:15 PDF Video James Davenport
(UWashington)
A Diferent Star Every Day: How Stellar Activity Impacts Exoplanet Science
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  11:15-11:30
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  11:30-11:45 PDF Video Mike Greklek-McKeon (Caltech) Observational Constraints on Rocky Planet Interior and Atmospheric Compositions from Stellar Abundances and XUV Irradiation
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  11:45-12:00 PDF Video Rob Kavanagh (U Amsterdam) Know Thy Ultracool Dwarf, Know Thy Magnetized Planet
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  12:00-12:15 PDF Video Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb (U Chicago) Constraining Secondary Atmospheres on the Temperate Exo-Earth TRAPPIST-1d: New Insights from Transmission Spectroscopy
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  12:15-12:30 PDF Video Elise Koo (U Amsterdam) Know Thy Radio-Emitting M Star: Spectroscopic Insights into Star-Planet Interaction Candidates
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  12:30-14:00 Lunch
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    Determining Planet Masses in the presence of stellar activity
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  14:00-14:15 PDF Video BJ Fulton
(NExScI-Caltech/IPAC)
Planeary Masses in Motion: Navigating the Impact of Stellar Variability on Exoplanet Mass and Orbit Determinations
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  14:15-14:30
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  14:30-14:45 PDF Video Alejandro Suárez Mascareño (IAC) NIRPS takes a look at Proxima
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  14:45-15:00 PDF Video Kyle Franson (UTAustin) Astrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: Imaging Planets Around Young Accelerating Stars
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  15:00-15:15 PDF Video Zoe Luca de Beurs (MIT) Machine learning enables accurate exoplanet mass characterization
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  15:15-15:30 PDF Video Melissa Janice Hobson (Obs. de Geneve) Planets at the stellar rotation period from ESPRESSO and TESS
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  15:30-16:00 PDF Video Megan Bedell
(Flatiron)
Mitigation Methods for Stellar Spectral Variability
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  16:00-16:15 Know Thy Posters
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  16:15-16:30
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  16:30-16:45
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  16:45-17:00
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  17:00-17:15
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  17:15-17:30
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  Thursday 2025 February 06
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  Time      
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  08:45-09:00     Opening Remarks
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    Observations of Exoplanet Atmospheres in the presence of stellar activity
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  09:00-09:15 PDF Video Ben Rackham
(MIT)
Knowing Stars, Knowing Planets: Unlocking JWST Exploration of Exoplanet Atmospheres through New Stellar Insights
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  09:15-09:30
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  09:30-09:45 PDF Video Arianna Saba (UCL) A Population Analysis of 20 Exoplanets Observed with HST: Evidence for Widespread Stellar Contamination
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  09:45-10:00 PDF Video Annabella Meech (CfA Harvard SAO) Assessing the impact of stellar inhomogeneities on high-resolution transmission spectroscopy
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  10:00-10:15 PDF Video Catriona Anne Murray (Colorado) Impact of starspot-crossing events on transmission spectra; the first precise panchromatic spectrum of a starspot with JWST
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  10:15-10:30 PDF Video Natalie Allen (JHU) Characterizing the atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1 e in the face of stellar contamination
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  10:30-11:00 30 min Break
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  11:00-11:15 PDF Video Luis Welbanks
(ASU)
Learning about the planet and star with atmospheric infrerence methods
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  11:15-11:30
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  11:30-11:45 PDF Video Michael Radica (UChicago) Promise and Peril: Stellar Contamination and Strict Limits in the Atmosphere Composition of Trappist-1c from JWST NIRISS
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  11:45-12:00 PDF Video Daniel Krolikowski (UA) The Helium NIR Triplet in Young Stars: Stellar Activity and Effects on Exosphere Detection
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  12:00-12:15 PDF Video Gloria Canocchi (Stockholm) Challenging Na detections in the atmospheres of giant planets with 3D non-LTE stellar spectra
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  12:15-12:30 PDF Video Ward Howard (Colorado) Advances in flare mitigation and photochemistry for JWST observations of the TRAPPIST-1 and applications to the EVE
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  12:30-14:00 Lunch
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    Trends in Stellar and Exoplanetary Systems Architectures and Demographics II
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  14:00-14:15 PDF Video Adam Kraus
(UT Austin)
The Influence of Stellar Multiplicity on Planet Formation and Evolution
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  14:15-14:30
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  14:30-14:45     Sarah Blunt (UCSC) Orbit-fitting in the Gaia Era
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  14:45-15:00 PDF Video Shishir Dholakia (USQ) The Occurrence of Long-period, Small Planets around M-dwarfs with TESS
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  15:00-15:15 PDF Video Noah Vowell (MSU) Using Transiting Brown Dwarfs to Define the Planetary Mass Limit
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  15:15-15:30 PDF Video Vincent Savignac (UCSD) Unveiling Gas-Poor Planet Formation Beyond 1 AU: Theoretical Predictions for the Roman Microlensing Surveys
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  15:30-16:00 30 min Break
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  16:00-16:15 PDF Video Malena Rice
(Yale)
Demograhics of Star-Planet Orbital Orientations
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  16:15-16:30
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  16:30-16:45 PDF Video Lou Baya Ould Rouis (BU) Constraints on Remnant Planetary Systems as a Function of Main-Sequence Mass with HST/COS
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  16:45-17:00 PDF Video Rayna Rampalli (Dartmouth) From Planetary Architectures to Galactic Influences: Understanding Our Sun’s Unique(ish) Chemistry
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  17:00-17:15 PDF Video John Jacob Zanazzi (UC Berkeley) Damping stellar obliquities by resonance locking
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  17:15-17:30 PDF Video Xianyu Wang (Indiana) Single-Star Warm-Jupiter Systems Tend to Be Aligned, Even Around Hot Stellar Hosts: No Teff−λ Dependency
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  Friday 2025 February 07
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  Time      
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  08:45-09:00     Opening Remarks
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    Physical Impacts of Stellar Evolution and Activity on Exoplanets
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  09:00-09:15 PDF Video Jessica Spake
(Carnegie)
Stellar and Planetary Mass Loss Measurements from a Double Exoplanet Tail
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  09:15-09:30
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  09:30-09:45 PDF Video Ethan Schreyer (UCSC) Identifying circumstellar gas generated by the extreme mass loss of close-in planets
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  09:45-10:00 PDF Video Raissa Estrela (JPL) Keep it or Lose it: the Fate of Exoplanetary Atmospheres Under the Influence of their Host Star
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  10:00-10:15 PDF Video Morgan Saidel (Caltech) Initial Results from the First Dedicated Mass Loss Survey of Gas Giants Orbiting F Stars
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  10:15-10:30 PDF Video Lori Huseby (UA) Ultraviolet Radiation Effects on Water-World Exoplanet Hazes Through Laboratory Experiments
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  10:30-11:00 30 min Break
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  11:00-11:15 PDF Video James Rogers
(Cambridge, UK)
The Impact of Stellar Evolution on the Road to the Radius Valley
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  11:15-11:30
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  11:30-11:45 PDF Video Aidan Gibbs (UCLA) Modelling the Impact of Flares on Short-Period Brown Dwarfs
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  11:45-12:00 PDF Video Kevin France (Colorado) UV & Xray Observations of Rocky Planet M Dwarf Host Stars: Inputs for Atmospheric Photochemistry and Escape Calculations
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  12:00-12:15 PDF Video Sarah Rugheimer (York U) Spectral Fingerprints Earth analogs in Brown dwarf systems
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  12:15-12:30 PDF Video Thea Faridani (UCLA) Extracting the Initial Stellar Spins of >1 Gyr old Sun-Like Stars through Secular Dynamics
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  12:30-14:00 Lunch
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    Future Directions and Missions
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  14:00-14:15 PDF Video Alessandro Sozetti INAF) The Gaia Mission and DR4
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  14:15-14:30 PDF Video Knicole Colon (GSFC) The Pandora Mission
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  14:30-14:45 PDF Video Davy Kirkpatrick (IPAC-Caltech) The SPHEREx Mission
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  14:45-15:00 PDF Video Rob Zellem (GSFC) The Nancy Grace Roman Mission
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  15:00-15:15 PDF Video Annelies Mortier (U Birmingham) The PLATO Mission
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  15:15-15:30 PDF Video Peter Plavchan (GMU) The Landolt mission
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  15:30-16:00 PDF Video Mark Swain (JPL) The Ariel Mission
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  16:00-16:15 PDF Video Josh Pepper (NASA HQ) The Habitable Worlds Observatory
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  16:15-16:30 PDF Video David Ciardi (NExScI-Caltech/IPAC) CLOSING REMARKS