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
    • 1
      M4 - M5 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

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

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Coffee and fruits at Nordita

    • 2
      Exoplanets - General talk 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

      50min + 10min questions
      Speakers: Alessandro Sozzetti (INAF), Guillem Anglada (Queen Mary)
      Slides
    • 3
      Exoplanets - Mission specific 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

      25min + 5min questions
      Speaker: Fabien Malbet (IPAG)
      Slides
    • 4
      Exoplanets - Discussion 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

    • 13:00
      Lunch break - (-)

      -

      -

      -
    • 5
      Old Systems: what will we learn with Theia? 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

      50min + 10min questions
      Speaker: Eva Villaver (UAM)
      Slides
    • 6
      Old Systems - Discussion 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

    • 16:00
      Coffee break 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

    • 7
      Micro-lensing to Probe Inflation - General talk (via skype) 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Adrienne Erickeck (UNC)
      Slides
    • 8
      Final discussion 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

  • Tuesday, 3 November
    • 9
      Dark Matter - General talk 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

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

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

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

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Coffee and fruits at Nordita

    • 11
      Galactic Centre - Dust extinction + IR 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Douglas Spolyar (Stockholm University)
      Slides
    • 12
      Galactic Centre - Outflows A. Brown 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

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

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Slides
    • 13:10
      Lunch break - (-)

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      -

      -
    • 14
      Dark Objects in the Milky Way - Dwarf properties 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

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

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

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

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

    • 16:00
      Coffee break 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Coffee and fruits at Nordita

    • 17
      Pulsar/Neutron star 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Angeles Perez-Garcia (University of Salamanca)
      Slides
    • 18
      Final Discussion of the Mission 132:028

      132:028

      Nordita, Stockholm

      - 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)