Meeting-in-Meeting held at the 224th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, in Boston MA, June 3-4, 2014.
What kind of planets lie at orbit radii of 1-2 AU - beyond the reach of Kepler? In the last two decades we have explored a sample of RV-detected planets, discovered distant planets with microlensing, and several hot young planets at large radii have been detected by direct imaging, as well as the debris disks that provide clues to formation and evolution. In these 4 sessions, we explore the near future, and how we can expect to learn much more about the demographics and properties of cold outer planets. AFTA-WFIRST will open up this area, with a microlensing survey to probe the population of long-orbit planets, and coronagraphy to take images and spectra of large planets in orbits at a few AU. NASA also has probe--scale mission concepts under study for direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets.
Planets Beyond the Reach of Kepler I: What We Know Today and What We Would Like to Learn
- Planets Beyond the Reach of Kepler - Introduction - S. Unwin, NASA JPL
- Studying Extrasolar Planets with WFIRST - D.N. Spergel, Princeton
- Theory of giant planet atmospheres and spectra - A. Burrows, Princeton
- Observed & Predicted Debris Disks Structures Beyond the Reach of Kepler - C. Stark, NASA-GSFC
- Theoretical Albedo Spectra of Exoplanet Direct Imaging Targets - N. Lewis, MIT
Planets Beyond the Reach of Kepler II: Demographics
- Demographics of Giant Planets--Insights from Theory - R. Murray-Clay, CfA
- Characterizing Cold Giant Planets in Reflected Light: Lessons from 50 Years of Outer Solar System Observation and Exploration - M. S. Marley, NASA Ames
- The Occurrence Rate of Giant Planets around M-dwarf Stars - J.R. Crepp, U Notre Dame
- Planet frequency beyond the snow line from MOA-II microlensing survey - D. Suzuki, Osaka University
- Free-floating planets from microlensing - T. Sumi, Osaka University
Planets Beyond the Reach of Kepler III: Ground-based Imaging and Spectroscopy
- Detecting and Characterizing Exoplanets with Direct Imaging from the Ground - B. Biller, U Edinburgh
- The Gemini Planet Imager - B. Macintosh, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Direct Imaging of Exoplanets and Their Forming Disks with the Subaru Telescope - M. Tamura, University of Tokyo
- Tracing Planetary System Architecture with Debris Disk Imaging - G. Bryden, NASA-JPL
- Pushing the radial velocity accuracy of HARPS and HARPS- N - X. Dumusque, CfA
- First science results from the K2 mission - T. Barclay, NASA Ames
Planets Beyond the Reach of Kepler IV: The Near Future
- Overview of WFIRST-AFTA Mission Capabilities - N. Gehrels, NASA-GSFC
- Mass Measurements for Microlens Planets with WFIRST/AFTA - J.C. Yee, CfA
- WFIRST-AFTA: What Can We Learn by Detecting Thousands of Cold Exoplanets via Microlensing? - M. Penny, Ohio State University
- Observing Other Worlds With JWST - C. A. Beichman, NExScI
- Exo-S: A Probe-scale Space Mission to Directly Image and Spectroscopically Characterize Exoplanetary Systems Using a Starshade and Telescope System - S. Seager, MIT
- Exo-C: A probe-scale space mission to directly image and spectroscopically characterize exoplanetary systems using an internal coronagraph - K. R. Stapelfeldt, NASA-GSFC