7th GAPS Progress Meeting

4 Nov 2015, 13:00 → 6 Nov 2015, 14:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Ovest (Catania Astrophysical Observatory)

Antonino Francesco Lanza, Isabella Pagano

GAPS (Global Architecture of Planetary Systems) is a synergic research program dedicated to a better understanding of the census and architecture of planetary systems around different kinds of stars in the Galaxy and a study of the properties, including chemical composition, angular momentum, and magnetic activity, of the host stars. To reach these goals, GAPS makes use of HARPS-N, the high-resolution spectrograph installed in summer 2012 at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo that provides unrivalled precise radial velocity measurements, and of several other instruments, especially for follow-up observations. The 7th GAPS Progress Meeting is the second plenary meeting of the GAPS collaboration in 2015. It will be dedicated to the presentation and the discussion of the new results obtained by the collaboration and to the work in progress. GAPS coordinated program elements are dedicated to search for planets orbiting M dwarfs, metal-poor stars, and stars in open clusters; to a better understanding of the planetary content and architecture of already known planetary systems through long-term radial velocity monitoring and the measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect; to the study of the interactions between stars and their close-in planets, including effects on stellar activity and the evolution of angular momentum.

Wednesday, 4 November

13:00 Welcome Lunch

1 Accomodation in the hall and logistics (Chair: A.F. Lanza)

2 Welcome address by G. Umana, Director of INAF-Catania Observatory

Technical session

3 Instrument status

Speaker: Rosario Cosentino (INAF-FGG)

4 Status of GAPS observations

Speaker: Riccardo Claudi

5 Discussion (including possible questions on data archive and software tools)

6 Presentation of the new authorship policy

Speaker: Antonino francesco Lanza

7 Discussion on the policy

16:00 Coffee break

Status of the program elements: (including reports on work and papers in progress)

8 Status of the Metal Poor Stars program

Speaker: Alessandro Sozzetti

9 Status of the Open Cluster program and the first planetary system discovered by GAPS in an OC

Speaker: Luca Malavolta

Thursday, 5 November

Status of the program elements: (including reports on work and papers in progress)

10 status of the M-type star program

Speakers: Alessandro Sozzetti, Giuseppina Micela

11 GJ3998 - GAPS-M87: A super-earth around an M star

Speaker: Laura Affer

12 Rotation, magnetic activity, and flux-flux relationships in M-type stars

Speakers: Gaetano Scandariato, Jesus Maldonado prado

13 New masks for M stars

Speaker: Monica Rainer

14 M107 – a status report

Speaker: Alessandro Sozzetti

15 Spectropolarimetry of M dwarfs to constrain RV jitter

Speaker: Dr Rim Fares (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)

10:45 Coffee break

Status of the program elements

16 Status of the program on known planetary systems

Speaker: Silvano Desidera

17 The planetary system around HD 108874

Speaker: Serena Benatti

18 Structure and evolution of transiting giant planets: a Bayesian homogeneous determination of orbital and physical parameters

Speaker: Aldo stefano Bonomo

19 Status of abundance analysis of stars with transiting planets

Speaker: Katia Biazzo

20 The Yale Radial Velocity Challenge: results and application for testing tools to detect low-mass planets

Speaker: Mario Damasso

Slides gaps_nov15_Damasso%20[2437712].pdf

21 Status of the program on Rossiter-McLaughlin effect

Speaker: Elvira Covino

13:15 Launch

Status of the program elements

22 GAPS planets and further characterization

Speaker: Gaetano Scandariato

The new proposal to TNG TAC for AOT33/2016A (March 1 –August 31)

23 Presentation of the proposal

Speaker: Alessandro Sozzetti

24 Discussion of the proposal

16:30 Coffee break

Status of the program elements

25 Star-planet interactions: lessons on chromospheric activity learned through the investigation of HD 17156

Speaker: Antonio Maggio

26 Status of the investigation on line asymmetry indicators in active stars

Speaker: Antonino francesco Lanza

27 Looking for reflected light in tau Bootis

Speaker: Francesco Borsa

28 “Altri mondi e dintorni …”: status of outreach and education

Speakers: Caterina Boccato, Sabrina Masiero

29 General discussion on GAPS program element

20:30 Social Dinner

Friday, 6 November

Synergies with other facilities and new proposals to exploit HARPS-N

30 Status of GIARPS, the GIANO+HARPS synergic program

Speaker: Riccardo Claudi

31 PMP update

Speaker: Isabella Pagano

32 Coordination of activities with amateur astronomers

Speaker: Sergio Messina

33 APACHE - status update, new tools, preliminary exoplanet frequency estimates

Speaker: Paolo Giacobbe

34 Status of the photometric follow-up at Serra La Nave

Speaker: Ricardo zanmar Sanchez castelan

35 The KOI-372 planetary system

Speaker: Luigi Mancini

36 Comparative study of algorithms for periodogram analysis of radial velocities

Speaker: Matteo Pinamonti

10:30 Coffee break

37 General discussion on the future development of GAPS, in the prospect of a new agreement between HARPS-N Consortium and INAF

38 Conclusions