Theia: Dark Matter and Exoplanets

Europe/Stockholm
132:028 (Nordita, Stockholm)

132:028

Nordita, Stockholm

Celine Boehm, Douglas Spolyar, Katherine Freese (Nordita and Stockholm University)
Description

Venue

Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden

Scope

This is a collaboration meeting to answer an ESA call about medium space missions (5th call) referred to as M5. The application is to launch a satellite capable of doing microlensing and astrometry to discover (very best case scenario) exoplanets and dark matter, thus bring together two communities into one project.

Timetable

Sponsored by:

Nordita

  • Monday, 2 November
    • 09:30 10:30
      M4 - M5 1h 132:028

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      Introduction to Astrometry and summary of Theia & Neat
      Speaker: Fabien Malbet (IPAG)
      Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee break 30m 132:028

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      Coffee and fruits at Nordita

    • 11:00 12:00
      Exoplanets - General talk 1h 132:028

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      50min + 10min questions
      Speakers: Alessandro Sozzetti (INAF), Guillem Anglada (Queen Mary)
      Slides
    • 12:00 12:30
      Exoplanets - Mission specific 30m 132:028

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      25min + 5min questions
      Speaker: Fabien Malbet (IPAG)
      Slides
    • 12:30 13:00
      Exoplanets - Discussion 30m 132:028

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    • 13:00 14:30
      Lunch break 1h 30m - (-)

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    • 14:30 15:30
      Old Systems: what will we learn with Theia? 1h 132:028

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      50min + 10min questions
      Speaker: Eva Villaver (UAM)
      Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Old Systems - Discussion 30m 132:028

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    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee break 30m 132:028

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    • 16:30 17:00
      Micro-lensing to Probe Inflation - General talk (via skype) 30m 132:028

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      Speaker: Adrienne Erickeck (UNC)
      Slides
    • 17:30 18:30
      Final discussion 1h 132:028

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  • Tuesday, 3 November
    • 09:30 10:30
      Dark Matter - General talk 1h 132:028

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      50min + 10min questions
      Speaker: Celine Boehm (IPPP)
      Slides
    • 10:30 11:30
      Dark Matter - Stochastic lensing 1h 132:028

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      50min + 10min questions
      Speaker: Francis-Yan Cyr Racine (JPL)
      Slides
    • 11:30 12:00
      Coffee break 30m 132:028

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      Coffee and fruits at Nordita

    • 12:00 12:30
      Galactic Centre - Dust extinction + IR 30m 132:028

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      Speaker: Douglas Spolyar (Stockholm University)
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    • 12:30 12:40
      Galactic Centre - Outflows A. Brown 10m 132:028

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      Slides presented by Celine Boehm, TBC
      Speaker: Celine Boehm (IPPP)
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    • 12:40 13:10
      Galactic Centre - Discussion - Berry Holl on Theia's Calibration 30m 132:028

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      Slides
    • 13:10 14:30
      Lunch break 1h 20m - (-)

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    • 14:30 15:00
      Dark Objects in the Milky Way - Dwarf properties 30m 132:028

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      Speaker: Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College)
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    • 15:00 15:30
      Dark Objects in the Milky Way - Perturbations in the disc 30m 132:028

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      Speaker: Arnaud Siebert (Strasbourg Observatory)
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    • 15:30 16:00
      Dark Objects in the Milky Way - Discussion 30m 132:028

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    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee break 30m 132:028

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      Coffee and fruits at Nordita

    • 16:30 17:10
      Pulsar/Neutron star 40m 132:028

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      Speaker: Angeles Perez-Garcia (University of Salamanca)
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    • 17:10 17:40
      Final Discussion of the Mission 30m 132:028

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      - Astrometry: Precision, best regions of observations - Engineering (is the precision really doable etc.) - Which design? - IR? - Competitors (Omega and Gaia2,...) - Networking with robonet and CTA - Industrial contacts - Next meeting (preliminary date: 2nd week of Jan in Durham)