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An Evaluation of Magnetic Bode's Law for Extrasolar Planetary Systems Sânzia Alves (UFRN, Brazil) An Evaluation of Magnetic Bode's law for Extrasolar Planetary Systems Sânzia Alves (UFRN, Brazil) Quantitative stellar spectral classification Matthias Ammler-von Eiff (Thueringer Landessternwarte, Tautenburg, Germany) Detection of Occultation by a Proto-planetary Clump in the Habitable Zone in GM Cephei Wen-Ping Chen (National Central University, Taiwan) Status of the Visible Nulling Coronagraph Technology Demonstration Program Mark Clampin (NASA/GSFC) Characterizing Extrasolar planets with WIRCam at CFHT Daniel Devost (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope) The missing cavities in the SEEDS polarized scattered light images of transitional protoplanetary disks: a new transitional disk model Ruobing Dong (Princeton University) The azimuthal distribution of dusts in an eccentric proto-planetary disk with an embedded gas giant planet Pin-Gao Gu (Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica Taiwan) Water vapor observations in the atmospheres of Earth and Mars Paul Hartogh (null, Germany) Benefits of ultraviolet and near-IR spectra in characterizing habitable planets Sara Heap (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) Habitable planets – problems and opportunities Alisher HOJAEV (National University of Uzbekistan) Stability of Giant Planet Moons in Planet-Planet Scattering Events Yu-Cian Hong (Astronomy and Space Science, Cornell University) Simulator for Microlens Planet Surveys Sergei Ipatov (Alsubai Est. for Scientific Studies, Doha, Qatar) The Transit Observations and Orbital Configurations of TrES3 and WASP10 Planetary Systems Ing-Guey Jiang (National Tsing Hua University Taiwan) Formation of the Solar System Huang Jinzhong (Astronomical Institute of DDFujian, China) Effects of stellar activity on rotational evolution of exoplanets Irina Kitiashvili (Stanford University) Re-evaluation of the inner edge of the habitable zone Takanori Kodama (The University of Tokyo) Polarimetry of transiting exoplanetary system with spotted host star Nadiia Kostogryz (Main Astronomical Observatory of NAS of Ukraine) Stabilization of habitable zones by dark energy Michal Křížek (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) Atmospheric characterization of cold exoplanets using a 1.5-m space coronagraph Anne-Lise Maire (Paris Observatory) NEAT: an astrometric mission to detect and characterize nearby habitable planetary systems Fabien Malbet (Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, France) Single mode, extreme precision Doppler spectrographs Christian Schwab (Yale University) Improved orbits and mass estimations for selected double stars of Pulkovo program Natalia Shakht (Pulkovo observatory) Doomed Planets: Planet Distribution Shows that the Closest Planets Are Tidally Migrating Into Stars Stuart Taylor (Hong Kong SAR, China) Detection of exomoons inside the habitable zone Luis Ricardo M.Tusnski (INPE, Brazil) Direct Imaging of Planet Transit Events Gerard van Belle (Lowell Observatory) Of `Cocktail Parties' and Exoplanets Ingo Waldmann (UCL, United Kingdom) Evidence for a low-mass substellar companion to an extremely hot pre-white dwarf central star of planetary nebulae NGC246 Wei Wang (National Astronomical Observatories of China) Habitable Zone Super-Earths with Non-Stabilised Spectrographs Duncan Wright (University of New South Wales, Australia) Volatile Abundances in Extrasolar Planetesimals siyi xu (University of California, Los Angeles) Extreme ultraviolet effects on the Venusian ionosphere from PVO and VEX missions Yansong Xue (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Exoplanet searches in the habitable zone with gravitational microlensing Alexander Zakharov (Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics Russia) The new algorithm of SEDs calculations for substars with protoplanetary disks Olga Zakhozhay (Main Astronomical Observatory NAS of Ukraine) Modelling disc-planet interactions Jorge Cuadra (PUC, Chile) The 0.81 – 4.2 micron ground-based transmission spectra of the hot jupiter HD-189733b Camilla Danielski (UCL, United Kingdom) TFRM-PSES: filling a niche in transit suveys of Super-Earths around M dwarfs Octavi Fors (Universitat de Barcelona) Absence of super Earths in the vicinity of Sun: Clues from the Exoplanet and Helioseismic data K. M Hiremath (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India) Variability of the Infrared Excess of Extreme Debris Disks Huan Meng (University of Arizona) Search for low-mass planets around late-M dwarfs using IRD Masashi Omiya (TITECH, Japan) Extreme environments as models for biosignatures search and understanding: The Atacama Desert as a relevant model Armando Azua-Bustos (Universidad de Los Andes, Chile) Activity-induced radial velocity variation of M dwarf stars and resulting limits on exoplanet detectability Jan Marie Andersen (University of Copenhagen) Habitability of Eyeball-Exoearths Daniel Angerhausen (Hamburg Observatory, Germany) Searching for Earth-mass planets around alpha Centauri: precise radial velocities from contaminated spectra Christoph Bergmann (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) The SOPHIE search for extrasolar planets: Follow-up of ELODIE candidates: Jupiter-analogues around Sun-like stars Isabelle Boisse (Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Noise at the Box-fitting spectrum in CoRoT light-curves Rodrigo Boufleur (MCT/Observatório Nacional) Present and Future Detection of Terrestrial Biomarkers on Earthshine Danielle Briot (Observatoire de Paris) Methods for Estimation of the Reliability of Kepler Planet Candidates Stephen Bryson (NASA Ames Research Center) Transit & RV observations of exoplanets by the 1-m telescope at Weihai Chen Cao (Shandong University at Weihai, China) The fate of a gas giant in a highly eccentric orbit Shih-Hsin Chang (ASIAA, Taiwan) Coupled evolutions of the stellar obliquity, orbital distance, and planet's radius Yu-Ling Chang (Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica) Planetesimal Formation in Zonal Flows arising in Magneto-Rotationally unstable Protoplanetary Disks Karsten Dittrich (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany) Probing the Humidity of Earth-like Exoplanets Yuka Fujii (The Univ. of Tokyo) A Study on the Water World Regime around Extrasolar Planetary Systems Satoshi Fukushima (The University of Tokyo) Doppler tomography of transiting exoplanets: a prograde, low-inclined orbit for the hot-Jupiter CoRoT-11b Davide Gandolfi (European Space Agency - ETEC/RSSD) An Introduction to High Resolution Spectrograph of Weihai Observatory Dongyang Gao (Shandong University at Weihai) An Introduction to High Resolution Spectrograph of Weihai Observatory Dongyang Gao (Shandong University at Weihai) Giant impacts and debris disks Hidenori Genda (The University of Tokyo) The dynamical evolution of multi-planet systems in star clusters Wei Hao (Peking University) Astrometry of Exoplanet Systems with the VLTI's GRAVITY Instrument Stefan Hippler (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany) Application of Titius-Bode Law in Prediction of Natural Disasters hui Hu (Yunnan Observatory, China) Angular Momenta of Collided Rarefied Preplanetesimals Sergei Ipatov (Alsubai Est. for Scientific Studies, Doha, Qatar) Can a local depletion in protosolar nebula explain the low mass of Mars? Andre Izidoro (UNESP, Brazil) Tidal evolution of hot-Jupiter and hot Super-Earths Jianghui JI (Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS China) Producing Habitable Planets in the Inclined Planetary Systems Jianghui JI (Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS China) Climate on Eccentric Planets with Carbonate-Silicate Geochemical Cycle Shintaro Kadoya (Univ. of Tokyo) Image Retrieval of Earth-like Planets from Light Curves Hajime Kawahara (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) Starspot-induced radial velocity variations over a stellar cycle Heidi Korhonen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen) From transits to occultations - high precision photometry from EulerCam and TRAPPIST Monika Lendl (University of Geneva) Detailed chemical abundance analysis of planet-hosting wide binaries Claude Mack III (Vanderbilt University) Superflares on late-type stars Hiroyuki Maehara (Kyoto University) Spectropolarimetric Observations of the Galilean Satellites to Characterize Signatures from Terrestrial Habitable Planets Eder Martioli (CFHT, United States) CARMENES. Characterisation of the stellar sample David Montes (Univ. Complutense de Madrid) Estimating the age of exoplanet host stars: possible member of the Hyades and Ursa Major moving groups confirmed by chemically tagging David Montes (Univ. Complutense de Madrid) Water in Protoplanetary Disks Hideko Nomura (Kyoto University) On the Current State of Ground-based Transmission Spectroscopy of Planet Atmospheres Lisa Nortmann (Institute fuer Astrophysik Göttingen, Germany) Studies of Near Earth Objects (Meteorites) which Landed in Nigeria and their Impact Crater Fidelix Opara (Centre for Basic Space Science, Nigeria) Eclipsing binaries: precise clocks to detect extrasolar planets Theodor Pribulla (Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences) Absolute Proper motions Out side the Plane(APOP)--A step towards the GSC2.4 Zhaoxiang Qi (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) Assimilating and Modeling Dust Transport in the Martian Climate System Tao Ruan (University of Oxford) Direct Detection of Nearby Habitable Zone Planets Using Slicer Based Integral Field Spectrographs and EPICS on the E-ELT Graeme Salter (University of New South Wales, Australia) The Yale Doppler Diagnostic Facility: a testbed for high resolution Echelle spectrograph Christian
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