Telluric Line Hack Week

Feb 25, 2019, 9:00 AM → Feb 28, 2019, 5:30 PM America/New_York

6th floor Library (Flatiron Institute)

A workshop partially supported by NASA for spectroscopic calibration.

Participant Dropbox

Main Room: 6th floor Library

Breakout Rooms: 6th floor Library, 4th floor Library, 6th floor Conference Room, 3rd floor Conference Room

Zoom (call-in) info: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://simonsfoundation.zoom.us/j/946818233

Or Telephone:
    Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): 
        US: +1 646 558 8656  or +1 669 900 6833 
    Meeting ID: 946 818 233
    International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/abT7lubJcp

Or an H.323 room system:
        162.255.36.11 (US East)
    Meeting ID: 946 818 233

Additional rooms for breakouts: 6th floor Conference Room, 3rd floor Conference Room, 4th floor Library

Ashley Baker		Joe Llama
Megan Bedell		Gordon Louli
Aida Behmard		Gregory Mace
Chad Bender		Suvrath Mahadevan
Jean-Loup Bertaux		Evangelos Nagel
Cullen Blake		Ricky Nilsson
Cam Buzard		Joe Ninan
John Callas		Rebecca Oppenheimer
Caleb Cañas		Peter Plavchan
Neil Jame Cook		Andreas Quirrenbach
Jerome de Leon		Lee Rosenthal
Dan Foreman-Mackey		Arpita Roy
BJ Fulton		Andreas Seifahrt
Rose Gibson		Julian Stuermer
Sam Grunblatt		Angelle Tanner
Sam Halverson		Ryan Terrien
David W Hogg		Brian Thorsbro
Andrew Howard		Solène Ulmer-Moll
Chih-Chun "Dino" Hsu		Sharon Xuesong Wang
Adrian Kaminski		Alexander Wise
Kyle Kaplan		Mathias Zechmeister
Rosine  Lallement		Michael Zhang
Christopher Leet

 

Monday, February 25

9:00 AM Coffee and light breakfast

1 Welcome and introduction from the LOC

2 Roundtable discussion

Each workshop participant introduces himself or herself with one slide to describe their interests in telluric lines and goals for the meeting (2 minutes per participant)

11:15 AM Coffee break

3 Arpita Roy: An introduction to modern Doppler spectrometers and the measurement of stellar radial velocities

4 Sharon Wang: The impact of telluric absorption lines on extreme precision Doppler measurements

12:20 PM Lunch

5 Reports from the field

Short presentations and discussion around participants’ experiences with different approaches to mitigating the impact of telluric lines on Doppler measurements

6 Megan Bedell: Next-generation techniques for inferring radial velocities and dealing with telluric lines

7 Discussion and brainstorming of ideas for hack week projects, work time

5:00 PM Break for dinner at nearby restaurants

Tuesday, February 26

9:00 AM Coffee and light breakfast

8 “Tag up” – Brief descriptions of proposed projects.

9 Jean-Loup Bertaux: An introduction to radiative transfer calculations with TAPAS and the structure of Earth’s atmosphere, along with a discussion of Fabry-Perot Interferometers as a tool for calibrating Doppler spectrometers

10 Youli Gordon: The HITRAN database and molecular transitions of water vapor

10:40 AM Coffee break

11 The rest of this day will be unstructured work time

12:20 PM Lunch

12 The rest of this day will be unstructured work time

13 “Tag up” – Updates on progress, discussion of new ideas

14 Break for dinner at nearby restaurants

Wednesday, February 27

9:00 AM Coffee and light breakfast

15 “Tag up” – Updates on progress, discussion of new ideas

16 The rest of this day will be unstructured work time

12:20 PM Lunch

17 The rest of this day will be unstructured work time

18 “Tag up” – Updates on progress, discussion of new ideas

19 Break for dinner at nearby restaurants

Thursday, February 28

9:00 AM Coffee and light breakfast

20 Presentations on results from Hack Week, ideas for new directions and collaborations

21 Event Close