Theia: Dark Matter and Exoplanets

2 Nov 2015, 09:00 → 3 Nov 2015, 18:00 Europe/Stockholm

132:028 (Nordita, Stockholm)

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

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:

Monday 2 November

1 M4 - M5

Introduction to Astrometry and summary of Theia & Neat

Speaker: Fabien Malbet (IPAG)

Slides Fabien_Malbet_-_[General]_THEIA_2015.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

Coffee and fruits at Nordita

2 Exoplanets - General talk

50min + 10min questions

Speakers: Alessandro Sozzetti (INAF), Guillem Anglada (Queen Mary)

Slides Alessandro_Sozzetti_-_Theia_2015.pdf Guillem_Anglada_-_THEIA_2015.pdf

3 Exoplanets - Mission specific

25min + 5min questions

Speaker: Fabien Malbet (IPAG)

Slides FabienMalbet_-_[Exoplanets]_THEIA_2015.pdf

4 Exoplanets - Discussion

13:00 Lunch break

5 Old Systems: what will we learn with Theia?

50min + 10min questions

Speaker: Eva Villaver (UAM)

Slides Eva_Villaver_-_THEIA_2015.pdf

6 Old Systems - Discussion

16:00 Coffee break

7 Micro-lensing to Probe Inflation - General talk (via skype)

Speaker: Adrienne Erickeck (UNC)

Slides Adrienne_Erickcek_THEIA_November_2015.pdf

8 Final discussion

Tuesday 3 November

9 Dark Matter - General talk

50min + 10min questions

Speaker: Celine Boehm (IPPP)

Slides Celine_Boehm_-_THEIA_2015.pdf

10 Dark Matter - Stochastic lensing

50min + 10min questions

Speaker: Francis-Yan Cyr Racine (JPL)

Slides Cyr-Racine_-_THEIA_2015.pdf

11:30 Coffee break

Coffee and fruits at Nordita

11 Galactic Centre - Dust extinction + IR

Speaker: Douglas Spolyar (Stockholm University)

Slides theia2015-spolyar.pdf

12 Galactic Centre - Outflows A. Brown

Slides presented by Celine Boehm, TBC

Speaker: Celine Boehm (IPPP)

Slides Anthony_Brown_-_THEIA_2015.pdf

13 Galactic Centre - Discussion - Berry Holl on Theia's Calibration

Slides Berry_Holl_-_THEIA_2015.pdf

13:10 Lunch break

14 Dark Objects in the Milky Way - Dwarf properties

Speaker: Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College)

Slides Malcolm_Fairbairn_-_THEIA_2015.pdf

15 Dark Objects in the Milky Way - Perturbations in the disc

Speaker: Arnaud Siebert (Strasbourg Observatory)

Slides Arnaud_Siebert_-_THEIA_2015.pdf

16 Dark Objects in the Milky Way - Discussion

16:00 Coffee break

Coffee and fruits at Nordita

17 Pulsar/Neutron star

Speaker: Angeles Perez-Garcia (University of Salamanca)

Slides Angeles_Perez_-_THEIA_2015.pdf

18 Final Discussion of the Mission

- 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)