Exoplanets @ AAS 221

Post date: Jan 04, 2013 9:28:57 PM

Here are the presentations program and press information for the 221st American Astronomical Society Meeting (AAS 221) from January 6 to 10, 2013. Below are three press conferences related to exoplanets presentations. Check the program for many other presentations including invited talks.

Monday, January 7, 2013 — 10:30 a.m. PST

EXOPLANETS COMING & GOING EVERYWHERE

Planet Candidates Observed by Kepler: Two Years of Precision Photometry

Christopher Burke (SETI Institute)

[216.02]

At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-size Planet

Francois Fressin (CfA)

[216.03]

A Newly Resolved Disk in a Search for Exoplanets Around High-Mass Stars

Joe Carson (College of Charleston)

[324.06, 149.24]

Planetary System Disruption by Galactic Perturbations to Wide Binary Stars

Nathan Kaib (Queens University, Canada)

[343.02]

Commentary

John Johnson (Caltech)

[408.04, 236.01]

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 — 10:30 a.m. PST

EXOPLANET SYSTEMS FROM BIRTH TO DEATH

A Planetary System in the Hyades, the Nearest Rich Star Cluster

Ben Zuckerman (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)

[309.07]

Exo-Asteroids and Polluted White Dwarfs 

John Debes (Space Telescope Science Institute)

[220.01, 308.03]

Three Transits of Venus: From Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn

Jay M. Pasachoff (Williams College & Caltech)

[315.06]

Pulsar Planets: Observations and Understanding

Aleksander Wolszczan (Penn State University)

[424.01]

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 — 2:30 p.m. PST

EXOPLANETS FROM DUST GRAINS TO BROWN DWARFS

HST and Spitzer Mapping of Brown Dwarf Atmospheres

Daniel Apai (University of Arizona)

[159.28]

Exo-Comet Detection in Debris Disks Around Young Stars

Barry Welsh (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

[109.03]

New Hubble Coronagraphic Images of Fomalhaut b and the Dust Belt

Paul Kalas (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

[324.02]

Orbital Constraints for Fomalhaut b from Hubble Astrometry

James R. Graham (University of California, Berkeley)

[324.03]

Asteroid Belts in Debris Disk Twins: Vega and Fomalhaut

Kate Su (University of Arizona)

[403.04]