Date:

October 4, 2013 - October 5, 2013

Location:

Denver, CO
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NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) will hold its eighth meeting on Saturday-Sunday, October 5-6, 2013, just prior to, and at the same venue as, the AAS-DPS Meeting in Denver, CO. ExoPAG meetings are open to the entire scientific community, and offer an opportunity to participate in discussions of scientific and technical issues in exoplanet exploration, and to provide input into NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP). All interested members of the astronomical and planetary science communities are invited to attend and participate.

ExoPAG-8 will continue to focus on expanding the inclusiveness of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) to the wider exoplanet community. Preliminary agenda topics include the progress toward a coronagraph/occulter in space, and progress toward establishing a robust estimate of the frequency of potentially habitable planets. In addition, there will be reports from the active Study Analysis Groups (SAGs), including SAG-9, which is considering the science requirements for an exoplanet probe to medium-scale direct-imaging mission.

Presentations

Saturday October 5, 2013

Start Title Presenter
9:00 - 10:00 Introduction
9:00 AM Introduction/Welcome Scott Gaudi
9:15 AM NASA HQ Updates Gary Blackwood
10:15 - 2:15 Mini Workshop: Progress toward a coronagraph/occulter in space
10:15 AM AFTA-C Intro/Update Wes Traub
10:45 AM AFTA-C Coronagraph Recommendation Process Gary Blackwood
11:15 AM STDT - Exoplanet Direct Imaging: Coronagraph Probe Mission Study ‘EXO-C’
Karl Stapelfeldt - remote

Sara Seager
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
ExEP Overview Gary Blackwood
1:00 PM SAG-9 Update: Exoplanet Probe to Medium Scale Direct-Imaging Mission Requirements and Characteristics Remi Soummer
1:30 PM RV overlap with direct imaging surveys Nick Cowan
1:45 PM Discussion
2:15 - 5:00 SAGs New and Old
2:15 PM SAG-4 Planetary Measurements Needed for Exoplanet Characterization Lisa Kaltenegger - remote
2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 PM SAG-8: Requirements and Limits of Future Precision Radial Velocity Measurements Peter Plavchan & Dave Latham
3:45 PM SAG-10: Requirements for the Characterization of Giant Planets Nick Cowan
4:15 PM SAG11: Preparing for the WFIRST uLensing Survey Andrew Gould
4:45 PM Discussion
5:00 PM Adjourn

Sunday October 6, 2013

Start Title Presenter
8:30 - 12:00 Mini Workshop: Toward a Robust Estimate of Eta_Earth
8:30 AM Why do we need to know eta_Earth and how do we define it? Ravi Kopparapu
9:00 AM Update on Kepler Nick Gautier, Ingolf Heinrichsen
9:30 AM Kepler Estimate #1 Courtney Dressing
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 AM Kepler Estimate #3 Wes Traub
10:45 AM What is needed to measure eta_Earth from Kepler? Eric Ford
11:15 AM Prospects for measuring eta_Earth from WFIRST Matthew Penny
11:30 AM Prospects for measuring eta_Earth from RV Dave Latham
11:45 AM Discussion
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 PM Starshade and Coronagraph technology gaps and paths to close them Peter Lawson & Nick Siegler
1:45 - 3:00 Toward an Exoplanet Roadmap
1:45 PM Roadmap Scott Gaudi
2:00 PM Discussion
3:00 PM Adjourn