23rd GAPS Meeting

27 Oct 2025, 08:30 → 30 Oct 2025, 13:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Ovest (INAF - Astrophysical Observatory of Catania)

Antonino Francesco Lanza (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

The 23rd GAPS Progress Meeting will be organized and hosted by the INAF - Astrophysical Observatory of Catania on the 27th-30th October 2025.

The maximum attendance (in person) will be 50 persons. Registration is required for both in-person or remote participation. 

The social dinner will be held on Wednesday 29th October at 8.00 pm at the "Il Pozzo" restaurant in Via Musumeci 124, Catania (https://ristoranteilpozzo.net/).

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SOC: GAPS Board

LOC: Giancarlo Bellassai, Giovanni Bruno, Salvo Buttaccio, Flavia Calderone, Gianfranco Fallica, Antonino F. Lanza (Chair), Carmelo Lauretta, Giuseppe Leto, Sergio Messina, Marco Montalto, Alessandro Ruggieri, Gaetano Scandariato, Daniela Sicilia, Vikash Singh

 

This meeting is organized thanks to the funds granted by the INAF Scientific Directorate.

Monday 27 October

08:30 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 10:50 GUI-BRUSH: Hands-on session

09:30 Software introduction

Speaker: Paolo Giacobbe

09:40 Working environment and hands-on program of the day

Speaker: Francesco Amadori

09:50 Software installation and initialization procedures

Speaker: Francesco Amadori

10:50 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 GUI-BRUSH: Hands-on session

11:00 Data reduction and calibration GIANO (from archive to GUIBRUSH) & Tellurics removal

Speakers: Francesco Amadori, Paolo Giacobbe

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:10 GUI-BRUSH: Hands-on session

14:00 Introduction of forward modeling for CC

Speaker: Paolo Giacobbe

14:10 Forward Modelling & Cross Correlation Technique

Speakers: Francesco Amadori, Paolo Giacobbe

15:10 → 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 → 16:30 GUI-BRUSH: Hands-on session

15:20 Introduction of forward modeling for retrievals

Speaker: Paolo Giacobbe

15:30 High and low resolution retrieval

Tuesday 28 October

09:00 → 10:30 General themes: Chair: I. Carleo

09:00 Welcome

Welcome - Dott.ssa Maria Elisabetta Palumbo (Direttrice INAF-OACT)

Speaker: Maria Elisabetta Palumbo

09:05 Welcome

Saluti Istituzionali da parte della Direzione Scientifica (Dr. I. Pagano)

Speaker: Isabella Pagano

09:10 Board Updates

Speaker: Serena Benatti

09:25 Updates on GAPS papers

Speaker: Katia Biazzo

09:40 Report junior

Speaker: Claudia Di Maio

09:50 The NOCTIS project and its role in studying exoplanets

Speaker: Mario Basilicata

10:05 Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first exoplanet discovered

Speaker: Daniela Sicilia

10:15 GAPS in support of Ariel: stellar obliquity and constraints on planet migration

Speaker: Andrea Bocchieri

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 ATMOSPHERES/BRIDGES: Chair: G. Mantovan

11:00 Status of the program

Speakers: Aldo S. Bonomo, Francesco Borsa

11:20 Stellar Abundance Ratios as diagnostics for Exoplanet Characterization

Speakers: Katia Biazzo, Martina Baratella

11:35 The never ending story between Giano-b and HD209458b

Speaker: Paolo Giacobbe

11:50 Linking disequilibrium chemistry models and observations for HD 209458 b

Speaker: Tomas De Azevedo Silva

12:10 Multi-instrument atmospheric characterization of the warm super-Neptune WASP-107 b using GUIBRUSH

Speaker: Francesco Amadori

12:25 Updates on the first investigation of the atmosphere of WASP-13 b with GIARPS

Speakers: Daniela Sicilia, Mario Basilicata

12:45 Beyond LTE: Probing the Extreme Atmosphere of KELT-9 b

Speaker: Alessia Di Paola

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:30 ATMOSPHERES/BRIDGES: Chair: G. Piccinini

14:00 Disentangling Planetary and Aliasing Signals in the CCF Analysis of KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b

Speaker: Federico Biassoni

14:15 Updates on V1298 Tau b

Speaker: Gloria Guilluy

14:30 → 16:00 Instrumentation: Chair: M. Basilicata

14:30 Updates from TNG

Speaker: Adriano Ghedina

14:45 HARPS-N Updates

Speaker: Rosario Cosentino

15:00 GIANO-B/GIARPS updates

Speaker: Avet Harutyunyan

15:15 LOCNES

Speaker: Riccardo Claudi

15:30 Status of the Observations

Speaker: Riccardo Claudi

15:45 RV jitter in the whole GAPS sample

Speaker: Riccardo Claudi

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Board meeting

Wednesday 29 October

09:00 → 10:30 Young Objects: Chair: M. D'Arpa

09:00 Status of the program

Speaker: Silvano Desidera

09:15 Updates on V1298 Tau

Speakers: Mario Damasso, Pietro Leonardi

09:30 HARPS+NIRPS observations of DS Tuc

Speaker: Mario Damasso

09:45 PASTAR: Spot Modeling with Photometric Data

Speaker: Antonino Petralia

10:00 Activity indicators from Ariel spectra through PASTAR grid

Speaker: Claudia Di Maio

10:15 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Ariel Masses Survey (ArMS):: Chair: F. Calderone

11:00 Status of the program

Speaker: Serena Benatti

11:30 Status of AMS18

Speaker: Valerio Fardella

11:45 Status of AMS20

Speaker: Claudia Di Maio

12:00 Status of YO46

Speaker: Mario Damasso

12:15 Principal component analysis to correct TESS systematics

Speaker: Antonino Petralia

12:30 Vetting of TESS candidates for Ariel

Speaker: Giulia Piccinini

12:45 Discussion

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Gaia Follow up: Chair: C. Di Maio

14:00 GFU Program Status

Speaker: Alessandro Sozzetti

14:15 Specific Systems: GFU02

Speaker: Giulia Piccinini

14:25 Specific Systems: GFU07

Speaker: Alessandro Ruggieri

14:35 Specific Systems: GFU08

Speaker: Matteo Pinamonti

14:45 Specific Systems: GFU25

Speaker: Mario Damasso

14:55 Detection completeness and follow-up potential of Gaia DR3 confirmed substellar companions

Speaker: Domenico Barbato

15:05 Gaia DR3 substellar companions around nearby M dwarfs: completeness and reliability in the 100pc sample

Speaker: Matteo Pinamonti

15:15 New Gaia candidates follow-up: Some considerations

Speaker: Alessandro Sozzetti

15:25 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Neptunian planets: Chair: A. Ruggieri

16:00 Status of the HONEI and SO programs

Speaker: Luca Naponiello

16:25 TOI-5789: A multiplanet and mutually inclined system

Speaker: Aldo S. Bonomo

16:45 Discussion

20:00 → 22:00 Social Dinner

Thursday 30 October

09:00 → 10:30 General themes: Chair: S. Benatti

09:00 Feedback on TNG observations

Speaker: Rosario Cosentino

09:15 Proposal for AOT53: Probing systems with meaningful TTVs

Speaker: Luca Naponiello

09:35 Discussion

09:45 Attività UTG-A

Speaker: Giusi Micela

09:55 Bandi di Astrofisica di Frontiera

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 General themes: Chair: S. Benatti

11:00 Bandi di Astrofisica di Frontiera (cont.) & Next activities of the Exoplanets community