Finding Earth Twins within 10pc

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Sala Cassini (Rome, ASI HQ)

Sala Cassini

Rome, ASI HQ

Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
Carmelo Arcidiacono (INAF OA Padova), Elisabetta Tommasi (ASI), Isabella Pagano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)), Roberto Ragazzoni (INAF OA Padova)
Description

Aim of the Workshop:

To gather the Italian community in support of a Toliman-like mission to find Earth twins in the very nearby stars, with a strong accent to Alpha Cen.

Scientists and engineers from academia, research institutes, and space industries are welcome!

Participants
  • Adriano Fontana
  • Alberto Krone-Martins
  • Alberto Riva
  • Alessandro Donati
  • Alessandro Sozzetti
  • Amedeo Balbi
  • Andrea Martelli
  • Andreas Stamminger
  • Angelo Zinzi
  • Antonino Francesco Lanza
  • Brunella Nisini
  • brunella pavesi
  • Carolina Aliano
  • Celine Boehm
  • Christian Reuwer
  • Daniele Galuzzo
  • Deborah Busonero
  • Domenico Barbato
  • Eduardo Bendek
  • Elisabetta Tommasi
  • Emanuela D'Aversa
  • Fernando Pedichini
  • Flavia Calderone
  • Francesco Berrilli
  • Francesco Verrecchia
  • Gabriele Impresario
  • Gaetano Scandariato
  • Giampaolo Piotto
  • Gianluca Li Causi
  • Gianluca Polenta
  • Giovanni Bianucci
  • Giovanni Bruno
  • Giuseppe Leto
  • Giuseppe Rondinelli
  • Giuseppe Sindoni
  • Giuseppe Sisinni
  • Giuseppina Micela
  • Isabella Pagano
  • Jeff Kuhn
  • Katia Biazzo
  • Leopoldo Benacchio
  • Luca Giovannelli
  • Luigi Mancini
  • Marco Molina
  • Marco Montuori
  • Marco Stangalini
  • Mario Damasso
  • Mario G. Lattanzi
  • Mario Gai
  • Mario Salatti
  • Massimiliano Mattioli
  • Matteo Pinamonti
  • Mauro Focardi
  • Michael Shao
  • Nour Skaf
  • Olivier Guyon
  • Orietta Lanciano
  • Paolo Giacobbe
  • Paolo Sarra
  • Peter Klupar
  • Peter Tuthill
  • Pino Malaguti
  • Roberto Ragazzoni
  • Rocco Pellegrini
  • Ronaldo da Silva
  • Ruslan Belikov
  • Sergio Mottini
  • Simon Worden
  • Simone Antoniucci
  • Svetlana Berdyugina
  • Teresa Giannini
  • Ummi Abbas
  • Vincenzo Testa
  • Monday, 19 November
    • 09:00
      Registration
    • Welcome Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
    • Session 1 Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
    • 11:30
      Coffee Break Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
    • Session 2 Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
    • 13:25
      Lunch Lunchroom

      Lunchroom

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
    • Session 3 Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
      • 8
        Stellar magnetic activity and how it can limit astrometry
        Speaker: Antonino Francesco Lanza (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
      • 9
        Detection and characterization of giant planets combining astrometry, radial velocities and transits: the GAIA potential
        Speaker: Paolo Giacobbe (INAF-OATo)
      • 10
        Proxima re-reloaded: updates about our closest stellar neighbour from the analysis of an enlarged radial velocity dataset
        Speaker: Mario Damasso (INAF-OATo)
      • 11
        Climate and radiative properties of a tidally-locked planet around Proxima Centauri
        Speaker: Luca Giovannelli (Università degli studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")
      • 12
        The Breakthrough Watch Initiative: Identifying and Characterizing nearby Habitable Exoplanets
        Speaker: Olivier Guyon (University of Arizona)
    • 16:10
      Coffee Break Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
    • Session 4 Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
      • 13
        Push Technogical Development for Exoplanet Search in Italy
        Speaker: Roberto Ragazzoni (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Padua)
      • 14
        Exoplanets in Italy

        The main scientific projects involving the Italian exoplanets community will be presented with review of specific results and highlight of competences and expertises.
        The aim is giving an overview from the current to future space and ground based programs.

        Speaker: Isabella Pagano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
      • 15
        Lessons from the Sun for precision Alpha Centauri astrometry experiments
        Speaker: Jeff Kuhn (Institute for Astronomy)
      • 16
        Leonardo electro-optical capabilities for astronomical and exploration missions (Leonardo SpA)
        Speaker: Marco Molina (Leonardo Company)
    • 20:00
      Social dinner
  • Tuesday, 20 November
    • Session 5 Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
      • 17
        Astrometry in Italy
        Speaker: Alessandro Sozzetti (INAF-OATo)
      • 18
        Recent history and thoughts on Narrow angle astrometry Error sources at the uas level.
        Speaker: Michael Shao (JPL - NASA)
      • 19
        Spacecraft Capability for Astrometry Mission (EnduroSat)
        Speaker: Giuseppe Sisinni (EnduroSat)
      • 20
        Monitoring stellar optical centroid variations due to magnetic activity for astrometric detection of exoplanets: Lessons from the Gravity Probe B mission
        Speaker: Svetlana Berdyugina (Leibniz Institut fuer Sonennphysik (KIS), Freiburg, Germany)
      • 21
        Hunting Earth-like planets: a long roadmap supported by ThalesAlenia Space
        Speakers: Andrea Martelli (Thales Alenia Space Italia), Sergio Mottini (Thales Alenia Space Italia)
    • 11:05
      Coffee Break Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
    • Session 6 Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
    • 13:35
      Lunch
    • Session 7 Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.
      • 28
        Exoplanet occurrences statistics

        (remote)

        Speaker: Ruslan Belikov (NASA Ames Research Center)
      • 29
        Astrometric Gravitation Probe
        Speaker: Alberto Riva (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
      • 30
        SHARK-VIS at LBT: pushing the limits of visible AO-assisted imaging for exoplanets
        Speaker: Fernando Pedichini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
      • 31
        Recurrence Quantification Analysis as a Post-processing technique in Adaptive Optics High Contrast Imaging
        Speaker: Marco Stangalini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
      • 32
        Fast-cadence high-contrast imaging: the Speckle-Free ADI (SFADI) method
        Speaker: Gianluca Li Causi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
      • 33
        The ASI SSDC infrastructure and expertise for exoplanetary sciences
        Speaker: Angelo Zinzi (SSDC - ASI)
    • Conclusions Sala Cassini

      Sala Cassini

      Rome, ASI HQ

      Viale del Politecnico s.n.c.