24th GAPS Progress Meeting

27 Apr 2026, 08:30 → 29 Apr 2026, 16:30 Europe/Rome

Sala Marconi & Sala A Biblioteca (Centro Nazionale Ricerche)

The 24th GAPS Progress Meeting will be organized by the INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Rome, together with two Universities in Rome (Roma Tre, Tor Vergata) and INAF-IAPS and will be hosted at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) on the 27th-29th April 2026.

Make sure to register for the Meeting and the Social Dinner (for logistic reasons the deadline is April 4th). 

The social dinner will be held on Apr 28th at the Trattoria Pommidoro in Piazza Dei Sanniti 44/46. 

Instructions on how to reach the venues are found in the Logistics page.

Please, note that the number of on site participants is limited to 88

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SOC: GAPS Board

LOC: Simone Antoniucci, Katia Biazzo (co-Chair), Riccardo Claudi (co-Chair), Valentina D'Orazi, Mario Damasso, Simone Filomeno, Luigi Mancini, Francesca Manni 

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

Monday 27 April

09:00 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 10:50 GOFIO Hands-on session

10:50 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 12:40 GOFIO Hands-on session

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:30 General themes (Updates from board, ...) [chair: Damasso]

14:00 Welcome

Speaker: Biazzo/Claudi

14:10 Board updates

Speaker: Borsa

14:20 Junior updates

Speaker: Mantovan

14:30 → 15:30 Atmospheres/BRIDGES [chair: Di Maio/Spinelli]

14:30 Status of the programme

Speaker: Borsa/Bonomo/Nascimbeni

14:40 Measured performance of stare observations for [infrared] atmospheric characterisation of exoplanets

Speaker: Brogi (online)

15:00 Unraveling the He I Absorption Feature in V1298 Tau b: Status Report and Next Steps

Speaker: Guilluy

15:20 Wasp-12b

Speaker: Colombo

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 18:15 Atmospheres/BRIDGES [chair: Di Maio/Spinelli]

15:50 GUIBRUSHR - A comprehensive tool to characterize exoplanet atmospheres at different spectroscopic resolutions and with a multi-instrument approach

Speaker: Amadori (online)

16:05 Measuring the emission spectrum of HD189733b with GIANO-B

Speaker: Basilicata

16:20 When PCA steals your signal

Speaker: Chella

16:35 GIARPS analysis of WASP-33b & HD191939b

Speaker: Monticelli

16:50 Atmospheric escape for sub-Neptunes and Earth-sized planets orbiting M dwarfs

Speaker: Biassoni

17:05 Transmission spectroscopy of HAT-P-32b with HARPS-N

Speaker: Sicilia/Scandariato

17:20 Orbital refinement and atmospheric characterisation of TOI-1518b

Speaker: D'Arpa

17:40 Chemical fingerprints: probing planetary atmospheres and formation via stellar abundances

Speaker: Baratella

17:55 Discussion

Tuesday 28 April

09:00 → 10:50 Young Objects + ArMS [chair: Baratella/Zingales]

09:00 Status of the YO program

Speaker: Benatti/Desidera

09:20 Update for V1298 Tau: RV and TTV

Speaker: Damasso/Leonardi

09:35 A comprehensive search for exoplanets around young stars with TESS

Speaker: Consolini (online)

09:50 Status of YO42

Speaker: Nardiello (online)

10:00 Status of TOI-1135

Speaker: Piccinini

10:15 Discussion about YO56

Speaker: Mantovan

10:30 Status of the ArMS program

Speaker: Benatti

10:50 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 12:40 Young Objects + ArMS [chair: Baratella/Zingales]

11:10 Status of AMS01

Speaker: Fardella

11:25 Status of AMS13

Speaker: Filomeno

11:40 Status of AMS17

Speaker: Guerra

11:55 Status of AMS20

Speaker: Di Maio

12:10 Status of YO46

Speaker: Damasso

12:25 Status of AMS06

Speaker: Leonardi

12:30 Discussion

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 GFU + Neptunians [chair: Basilicata/Piccinini]

14:00 GFU Programme status

Speaker: Sozzetti/Barbato

14:15 Specific Systems: GFU02

Speaker: Piccinini

14:25 Specific Systems: GFU07

Speaker: Ruggieri (online)

14:35 Specific Systems: GFU25

Speaker: Barbieri (online)

14:45 Specific Systems: GFU14

Speaker: Pinamonti

14:55 Specific Systems: KP57

Speaker: Desidera

15:10 Specific Systems: HD12800

Speaker: Sozzetti

15:20 New Gaia DR4 candidates: prospects

Speaker: Sozzetti

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 16:40 GFU + Neptunians [chair: Basilicata/Piccinini]

15:50 Summary of the remaining SOs and HONEI

Speaker: Naponiello

16:10 Update on GAPS SO3, SO7 and a new HONEI planet

Speaker: Mancini

16:25 Discussion

16:40 → 17:40 General themes (Bando AF, Instrumentation, Observations, Tools, ...) [chair: Damasso/Barbato/Mantovan]: General themes (AF2025 proposals)

16:40 Proposte Bando di Astrofisica di Frontiera sottomesse (SN)

Speaker: Sozzetti

16:55 Proposte Bando di Astrofisica di Frontiera sottomesse (others)

Speaker: Borsa

17:10 Discussion

17:20 Results & plans from Harps-N Collaboration

Speaker: Bonomo

20:00 → 23:00 Social Dinner

Wednesday 29 April

09:30 → 10:50 General themes (Bando AF, Instrumentation, Observations, Tools, ...) [chair: Damasso/Barbato/Mantovan]

09:30 Update from TNG

Speaker: Ghedina

09:45 DRS Configuration & Custom Mask Enablement

Speaker: Cosentino

10:00 Updates from the TNG and Yabi Archive

Speaker: Bignamini

10:10 The role of the Osservatorio Polifunzionale del Chianti in exoplanetary observations: eight years of collaboration in the GAPS project

Speaker: Fossi

10:25 AOT52 Observation and Sharing Status

Speaker: Claudi

10:35 Characterization of GIANO-B Absorbing cells

Speaker: Ciantini

10:50 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 11:35 General themes (Bando AF, Instrumentation, Observations, Tools, ...) [chair: Damasso/Barbato/Mantovan]

11:10 PyAETNA, Science Gateway e HPC

Speaker: Scandariato

11:20 PARVATI and SHIVA: new tools for the creation and analysis of mean line profiles

Speaker: Rainer

11:35 → 12:30 Miscellaneous Science (GAPS1+2 leftovers, junior projects) [chair Naponiello]

11:35 The GAPS detection landscape: completeness across 13 years of observations

Speaker: Barbato

11:50 TOI-1533, a compact system hosting a super-Neptune-mass pair with disparate radii

Speaker: Mantovan

12:05 Characterization of the multi-planetary system HD 23472

Speaker: Manni (online)

12:20 Updates from AOT51 and AOT52: Two long-period sub-Neptunes orbiting active K-dwarf stars

Speaker: Leonardi

12:30 → 13:00 Miscellaneous Science (external collaborators) [chair: Filomeno]

12:30 Characterising the outer regions of systems with transiting planets

Speaker: Lazzoni

12:45 Eating planets makes you younger: GJ504's high rotation and bright X-ray luminosity caused by planetary engulfment

Speaker: Pezzotti