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Kepler & K2 Science Conference V Program Version 5, March 22, 2019 Monday March 4 Tuesday March 5 Wednesday March 6 Thursday March 7 Friday March 8 Stellar Rotation and Internal Rotation and Session 1 Kepler/K2 Mission History and Kepler Benchmark Systems Galactic Archaeology (Chair: Gyrochronology (Chair: Ann Asteroseismology (Chair: Dennis (8.30am-10.00am) Future (Chair: Dawn Gelino) (Chair: Courtney Dressing) Katrien Kolenberg) Marie Cody) Stello) 8:30-8:45 Sebastian Deheuvels (invited): Marc Pinsonneault (invited): Ruth Angus (invited): The Kepler William Borucki (invited): History Sarah Ballard (invited): Lessons Monitoring the internal rotation of Galactic Archeology with Kepler revolution: stellar rotation and of the Kepler Mission from the Multi-planet Systems stars along their evolution with and K2 activity in clusters and the field Kepler 8:45-9:00 Dennis Stello: The K2 Galactic Christopher Shallue: Can deep Jason Curtis: Building Precision Archaeology Program: revealing Jim Fuller: A Solution to the Slow 9:00-9:15 learning help find Earth Stellar Clocks with Kepler and the jigsaw puzzle one campaign Spins of Stellar Cores analogues? Gaia Katelynn McCalmont (invited): at a time Flying the Kepler Spacecraft’s Second Mission: K2 Operations Jie Yu: Ensemble Beate Stelzer: The Michelle Hill: Exploring Kepler Barbara Endl: Asteroseismology asteroseismology of 20,000 rotation-activity-age relation of M 9:15-9:30 Giant Planets in the Habitable of white dwarfs observed by oscillating red giants observed dwarfs in the era of Kepler and Zone Kepler and K2 by Kepler K2 Kai Rodenbeck: Revisiting the Rafael Garcia: A Comprehensive Lauren Doyle: The Rotational Roberto Szabo: Classical Douglas Caldwell: The Kepler 9:30-9:45 exomoon candidate signal Full Kepler Red Giant Legacy Phase distribution of Stellar pulsating variables in the photometer around Kepler-1625 b Catalog Flares on M dwarfs Kepler/K2 era Joshua Reding: The Confluence Geert Barentsen: Kepler's Daniel Huber: An Asteroseismic Ashley Chontos: The Curious of Hardware Failures That Led to Katrien Kolenberg: RR Lyr, an Discoveries Will Continue: 21 Age for the Galactic Halo 9:45-10:00 Case of KOI-4: Confirming the Discovery of the Most old friend in a new light, with Scientific Opportunities with Measured with Distant Kepler Kepler’s First Exoplanet Rapidly Rotating Isolated White Kepler Kepler & K2 Archive Data Giants Dwarf Break (10am-10.30am) 1 Session 2 Precise Stellar and Planetary K2 Benchmark Systems (Chair: Binaries, Exoplanets, and Citizen Exoplanets Over Time (Chair: Kepler/K2 Follow-Up Programs (10.30am-12pm) Radii (Chair: Dan Huber) Matthew Holman) Science (Chair: Andrew Howard) Jessie Dotson) (Chair: Christina Hedges) Adam Kraus: The Perilous Lives David Ciardi: The Legacy of 10:30-10:45 of Planets in Binary Star Kepler and K2: The Follow-up Mia Lundkvist (invited): Systems Observation Programs Andrew Vanderburg (invited): Asteroseismology of exoplanet Andrew Mann (invited): Tracing Benchmark Exoplanet Systems host stars from the Kepler/K2 Planetary Evolution with K2 Discovered by the K2 Mission Rachel Matson: Detecting David Latham: Contributions missions Unresolved Binaries in Exoplanet from HARPS-N to the 10:45-11:00 Transit Surveys with Speckle Mass-Radius Diagram for Imaging Kepler/K2 Planets Juliette Becker: Dynamically Determining Observationally Nicole Hess: Identifying Bound Vincent Van Eylen: Ann Marie Cody: Young Stars in Erik Petigura: Metal-rich Stars Ill-Constrained Planet Stellar Companions to Kepler 11:00-11:15 Understanding planet formation the Time Domain: the View with Host a Greater Diversity of Parameters: Towards Precise Exoplanet Host Stars With through asteroseismology Kepler Planets Transit Ephemerides for the Speckle Imaging Benchmark System HIP 41378 Hilke Schlichting: Observational Cintia Fernanda Martinez: An Signatures of the Core-Powered Kevin Hardegree-Ullman: Space Eric Gaidos: What Orbits a Independent Spectroscopic Wei Zhu: Many Kepler planets 11:15-11:30 Mass-Loss Mechanism: The Telescope Synergy: Spitzer Mysterious Young ``Dipper'' Star Analysis of the California-Kepler have distant companions Radius Valley as a Function of Follow-up of K2 Targets in Taurus? Survey Sample: A Slope in the Stellar Mass Small Planet Radius Gap Eric Mamajek: Small Joey Rodriguez: K2-266: A Laura Venuti: A dynamical view Travis Berger: Precise (In)temperate Planets: A Closer Compact Multi-Planet System of star-disk interaction processes 11:30-11:45 Characterization of Kepler Stars Look at Habitable Zone With A Planet That Is "Way Out in the Lagoon Nebula with and Planets Using Gaia DR2 Terrestrial-sized Planet of Line" Kepler/K2 Chris Lintott (invited): Citizen Candidates Science with Kepler and K2 Samuel Grunblatt: Planetary Ian Crossfield: Atmospheric Benjamin Fulton: Revisiting the Fei Dai: New perspective on the Archaeology: Exploring the 11:45-12:00 Characterization of Kepler/K2 Radius Gap in the Era of Gaia ultra-short-period planets Planet Population of Evolved Planets Stars Lunch (12pm-1.30pm) 2 Methods, Microlensing, and Solar System Science, Other Session 3 Stellar Magnetism and Activity Simultaneous Breakout Sessions Fundamental Stellar Parameters Accretion Physics (Chair: Steve Missions, and Reflections (Chair: (1.30pm-3pm) (Chair: David Ciardi) I (Chair: Savita Mathur) Howell) Tom Barclay) Matteo Cantiello: Internal Magnetic Fields Rodrigo Luger: Gradient-based David Soderblom: Opportunities Poster Competition Winners (2x7 1:30-1:45 Asteroseismology: Kepler's inference techniques for and limitations of the cluster data min) Legacy and TESS's exoplanet light curves from Kepler/K2 Patrick Gaulme (invited): opportunities Asteroseismology, Red Giants, Christina Hedges: The Angela Santos: Seismic and Eclipsing Binaries Sebastiano Calchi Novati: An Lightkurve package for Kepler & signatures of magnetic activity in Andras Pal: New results with K2 1:45-2:00 isolated microlens observed from TESS data analysis: tutorials and solar-type stars observed by in Solar System exploration K2, Spitzer and Earth consulting breakout Kepler Eric Feigelson: Finding Planets Ellianna Schwab Abrahams: The in Kepler lightcurves with R Timothy White: Testing Fundamental and Magnetic Jessie Dotson: Observations of 2:00-2:15 asteroseismic ages of red giants Characteristics of M Dwarfs in Krista Lynne Smith (invited): Solar System Objects with K2 Sharon Wang: Data Hack for with the Hyades the Kepler Field Kepler/K2 and Active Galactic RVxK2: Battling Stellar Jitter with Nuclei: New Insights into Michael Gully-Santiago: K2 Simultaneous K2 Photometry Accretion and High Energy constraints on stellar surface and RVs Phenomena Benjamin Pope: Naked-Eye Andrea Fortier: The CHEOPS 2:15-2:30 inhomogeneities and their Stars in Kepler and K2 Mission systematic bias of transit-derived exoplanet densities Sharon Xuesong Wang: RVxK2: Dominic Bowman: Blue Paula Szkody: Insights into George Ricker: The TESS Using Simultaneous Kepler supergiants reveal diverse 2:30-2:45 Accretion in Cataclysmic Mission: Current Status and Photometry to Mitigate Stellar pulsational variability in K2 Variables Gleaned from Kepler Future Plans Jitter photometry Lisa Bugnet: FliPer: a powerful Ryan Ridden-Harper: Hunting Simon Murphy: Pulsating Stars 2:45-3:00 tool to detect and characterise transients in K2 with the K2: in Binaries Solar-like pulsators Background Survey Jessie Christiansen (invited): Break Reflections (3pm-3.30pm) 3 Session 4 Exoplanet Occurrence Rates Extragalactic Science (Chair: Simultaneous Breakout Sessions Planetary Architectures (Chair: (3.30pm-5pm) (Chair: Jessie Christiansen) Michael Gully-Santiago) II Eric Mamajek) Ann Marie Cody: A Crowded 3:30-3:45 Field Photometry Challenge End of Conference (3:15pm) Courtney Dressing (invited): Peter Garnavich (invited): Better Lauren Weiss (invited): Planetary Probing the Frequency of Michael Gully-Santiago: Understanding Supernovae from System Architectures and Planetary Systems with Kepler Modeling correlated noise with Kepler/K2 Observations Dynamics and K2 Gaussian processes 3:45-4:00 Lee Rosenthal: RadVel: The Radial Velocity Fitting Toolkit Jack Lissauer: Architecture and Georgios Dimitiadis: K2 Tom Barclay/Knicole Colón: Dynamics of Kepler’s Gijs Mulders: Exoplanet Observations of SN 2018oh Community Data Products and Multi-Transiting Planet Systems: 4:00-4:15 population synthesis in the era of Reveal a Two-Component Rising Early Science from the TESS Comprehensive Investigation large exoplanets surveys Light Curve for a Type Ia Mission Using All Four Years of Kepler Supernova Mission Data Timothy Morton: The Thomas Holoien: ASASSN-18bt: Probabilistic Validation Darin Ragozzine: Getting more Evidence for Nickle on the 4:15-4:30 Revolution: How Kepler Forced a out of information-rich Kepler Surface of a Type Ia Supernova Paradigm Shift in How We Treat multis that show TTVs found by the rising K2 light curve Transiting Planet Candidates Sarah Millholland: Obliquity Marko Sestovic: The occurence Edward Shaya: A Tidal Tides and their Role in 4:30-4:45 rate of planets around ultracool Disruption Event in a Seyfert 2 Understanding the Kepler Planet dwarfs Observed with K2 Period Ratio Distribution Christina Hedges: Are there any Armin Rest: A Fast-Evolving, Miranda Herman: Revisiting the 4:45-5:00 more planets in the Kepler / K2 Luminous Transient Discovered Long-Period Transiting Planets data? by K2/Kepler from Kepler Evening Session Poster Session I Poster Session II (5pm-6.30pm) 4 .
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    From ESPRESSO to PLATO: detecting and characterizing Earth-like planets in the presence of stellar noise Tese de Doutouramento Luisa Maria Serrano Departamento de Fisica e Astronomia do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto Orientador: Nuno Cardoso Santos, Co-Orientadora: Susana Cristina Cabral Barros March 2020 Dedication This Ph.D. thesis is the result of 4 years of work, stress, anxiety, but, over all, fun, curiosity and desire of exploring the most hidden scientific discoveries deserved by Astrophysics. Working in Exoplanets was the beginning of the realization of a life-lasting dream, it has allowed me to enter an extremely active and productive group. For this reason my thanks go, first of all, to the ’boss’ and my Ph.D. supervisor, Nuno Santos. He allowed me to be here and introduced me in this world, a distant mirage for the master student from a university where there was no exoplanets thematic line. I also have to thank him for his humanity, not a common quality among professors. The second thank goes to Susana, who was always there for me when I had issues, not necessarily scientific ones. I finally have to thank Mahmoud; heis not listed as supervisor here, but he guided me, teaching me how to do research and giving me precious life lessons, which made me growing. There is also a long series of people I am thankful to, for rendering this years extremely interesting and sustaining me in the deepest moments. My first thought goes to my parents: they were thousands of kilometers far away from me, though they never left me alone and they listened to my complaints, joy, sadness...everything.