- Okay, so myself and David Ciardi will be giving an update on ExEP Science and the Exoplanet Archive. I just wanted to remind the Exoplanet community of the Exoplanet Program Science Plan, most relevant to the discussion here is the Science Gap List. And this is a document that's updated every year as part of the ExEP Science Plan. So the Science Plan has tactical scope for the implementation of the science goals assigned to the ExEP program by NASA headquarters. It is not creating, new strategic goals or anything like that. It's feeding from the strategic goals and for NASA plans and mission concepts in the future. So the Gap List is specifying areas where additional work would enhance the science return of current and upcoming missions or provide information needed for the design of future mission. So a couple of famous examples of these from the past decade has been the frequency of tempered rocky planets has made up of Earth and the characteristics of exozodiacal disks needed for helping formulate direct imaging missions. There's two other documents, The Science Development Plan and The Science Plan Appendix. The Plan Appendix is a much longer document, provides a background information, and we'll be doing a big update to that here in a year after the decadal comes up. The Science Plan documents are intended for use in personal, sorry, proposal solicitation, writing, and evaluation. And they were actually referenced in the XRP calls in 2021 for identifying some Exoplanet Science topics that are of interest to NASA. The science gaps are, basically, you could write down on a page. Science gap has a title. It's got a summary description. What capabilities do we need? What are the capabilities now and what mitigations are in progress? And of course, one can come up with and propose for what mitigations should be started to address these gaps. And for it to be a Program gap, it should be cross-cutting. So we leave it to individual projects to track their own gaps. So we don't include things that are specific to a particular mission or project. They tend to cover a wide range of activities that NASA or to feed into proposing new concept studies. So in 2021, we'll be doing another update to the Gap List. We're following similar process and schedules. Last year, we just sent out an announcement on the exopagannounce list on June 10th. Our current plan is to leave an open comment period through September 30th. However, the cables delayed well past July or August. We may need to consider extending this deadline. Our usual schedule has us updating, the ExEP Program scientists updating the document October and December. And we get, we iterate with our headquarters colleagues and get signatures in December and January and release it January before the NASA ROSES 2022 call come out. As you recall, they usually come out on Valentine's day every year. And we also plan to, it's been a few years since we've updated the, Logger Science Plan. So it's clearly due for an update in this rapidly changing field. So what are you gonna see the community closed these science gaps through innovative research? I just wanted to point out a couple that have been hot topics of late, and I suspect will be hot topics after the decadal comes out. We've just gone through, we had a recommendation, the Exoplanet Science Strategy to advance extreme precision radial velocity. We have the EPRV working group. That community report made the recommendations to NASA and NSF they're writing up their final report. One of the takeaways is that EPRV, even if things go really, really well, they're still at least tens of percent of nearby stars that are plausible targets for a future direct imaging mission is something similar to Habex/LuVoir where EPRV is unlikely to be able to reach those planets. Probably, on the order of about a quarter of thirds of those targets. Even if we can get down to the centimeter per second range, there's just natural limitations due to the temperatures on the, rotational velocities of those stars. There not being enough information to make those measurements. And so what's the strategy going to be to fill in the massive, should a direct imaging mission be selected? We've had some internal discussions on this, but this is something we're gonna be seeking input from the community and the EC in the years ahead. Especially, if the decadal has a recommendation for direct imaging mission. So how are we gonna fill in the gap? The EPRV may not be able to fully fill? Another topic is Exozodi's. The Exozodi's affect the integration times for planets, for small planets orbiting nearby stars. There has been some work on this, there's some ongoing work understanding what the Roman Space Telescope may be able to provide. The LBTI host survey just recently came to an end, providing some statistical constraints, but there's a lot more that could be understood. We sort of just scratch the surface of understanding exozodis and how they're gonna limit our ability to take spectra of small planets around nearby stars. Right now, absent an endorsement from Astro2020, NASA is unlikely to fund an upgrade to LBTI, the large binocular telescope interferometers, that may vanish as an option after FY21. And so this will be an important topic after decadal comes up. We still need to understand what the capabilities are of, how much is James Webb, some of the ground based near-infrared interferometers, any ELTs, what can they provide to further constrain our knowledge of nearby exozodis. Gary reminded us of the fluid. It was this great new community resource and the, you saw some of the jaw-dropping radial velocity curves that were shown after the review last month. I'll remind us that we also, the ExEP is also supporting Southern Radio Velocity access to these facilities. There's ongoing support at the, using the SMARTS/Chiron spectrograph and MINERVA-Australis. As you see the current plan for the years ahead, the current mix and amounts of time is re-evaluated every year. You should be also had a short program at AAT/Veloce that it started and it had stopped as the performance was not quite what had been expected in terms of the radial velocity some other, but I'd like to remind people to propose for these real velocity resources. And there's also the High-Resolution Speckle Imaging Program. And Steve Howell's gonna remind us about that in a later talk. Okay, David Ciardi?

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- Hello, everybody. So I'm David Ciardi, I'm the Chief Scientist at the Exoplanet Science Institute, which is the science center part of the access program. I'm not gonna give a full update today on all the activities for next time. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact either me or Dawn Gelino, the Deputy Director. I think, Chas Beichman, and Sean Carey are also on, if you need that specific question. Or anybody that you may know at that site, please feel free to reach out to us at any time, if there's any questions. And I'm gonna give you a short update on some of the archive activities and on the second program. So as many as you are aware, NASA archive has been working to reconfigure itself to be more flexible, and to be able to continue more information. And for more than a year and a half, we have these New Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Parameters tables that were in development. They were intended to replace the older Confirmed, Extended and Composite Parameters tables. Those now have been fully released and the older tables have been retired. And to help service easy tables, we established a new VO compliant tap service. And we have, I just put it on the side here. I should have. We work with the Astroquery group and have edited and worked on that softwares. So now Astroquery is fully compatible with the tables and the new tap service. We are also developed a new set of overview tables. As many of you may recall, the Extended archive had grown in fits and spurts. And so we had all these massive different numbers of kinds of overview pages. We've now consolidated into a single overview page, we've updated their book, but the point of these overview pages are to be able to get to all of the information for a single system from one page. Now, right now, that information is trapped within the duty. We are working on a full API, so you can get all of the information from an overview page for the content of that stuff for that system. Next slide, Eric, please. No, back one. Thank you. So the, oh! Right, thank you. Okay. Also, many of you may or may not be aware of the Exo archive also works with the community to serve contributed datasets. We have many dozen different datasets available that have be donated to the archive over the years. The two most recent ones were a modeling and software suite donated by Himes and Joe Harrington, from University of Central Florida called, "Marge-Homer." And then, another dataset that was donated by Mic Warner and Gorjian. Gorjian, which was a Spitzer Survey of the Kepler field. So those were released this week, but I also wanna just draw attention to community that if you have a program or a proposal, and you wish to have your data serves a Biomass Archive and it's associated with the Exoplanet community efforts, we'd be more than happy to talk with you about serving as data for you. All right, next slide, please. The Exo archives sibling service, of course, is the ExoFOP, where we have been surveyed community observations since the early days of Kepler. We are actively involved in the TESS Community Follow-Up and we're part of the TESS Follow-Up Program. So all of the data that the TESS Follow-Up Program is being contributed, is being contributed to the ExoFOP community. I didn't update the slide as many of you know, we're now up to more than 4,000 TOIs. And I'd like to point out that we have 1,600 community identified TOIs in addition to the 30 4,000. And roughly about 10% of the project TOIs have been identified through the community efforts. So it's a good combination between what the project is doing and what the community is doing. We're constantly developing on the ExoFOP in a rapid way to try and meet the needs of the community. And so we just released a new functionality where there's a search page. That search page has been there for quite awhile, and now you can structure the search page and save it. And then that saved search can now be access through an actual API. So we can embed the searches into your, into your command line workflows or your Python workflows, that kind of idea. We are consolidating the ExoFOP. It originally had Kepler-22 and TESS. We've moved all the Kepler stuff over and we're in the process of moving over. And by the end of the year, we are expecting to have a single portal entrance to the ExoFOP. Next slide, please. This is another part of next slide, which is the Sagan Program and the NASA Keck Time. Dawn Gelino, online to give you a very specific question. Let's take a workshop is in less than a month, it will be fully virtual on the topic of Circumstellar Disks and Young Planets. Registration is still open. And if you are wanting to submit a poster or a pop out that is due by July 12th. Also, for the NASA Keck Observatory Time for 20, 20, 2A, sorry, I cannot say that. The call for proposals is gonna be released a little bit earlier this time. It's gonna be released at the end of July. Proposals due at the same time as usual mid-September, but there are two main differences with this call. One is that, this call will be Dual Anonymous. And that there'll be a community training webinar on how to do that for the Keck Time in August. And also this call will contain Key Strategic Mission Support proposals, and notices of intent for those proposals are due in mid-August, a month before the due date. There's lots of details and all of that that I skipped over. So if you have any very specific questions, please contact us at NExScI. In particular, Dawn Gelino or Elise Furlan. Thank you, Eric.