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The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope will open up unprecedented opportunities for exoplanet observation. The near-to-mid infrared wavelength coverage is ideally suited to detailed observations of hot, gaseous exoplanet atmospheres in transit and eclipse; the study of young giant planets and disks; and the potential characterisation of terrestrial exoplanets. JWST’s impressive sensitivity and spectral coverage will provide substantially more detailed spectra of exoplanets than those that are obtained with current state of the art instruments. Current modelling assumptions and simplifications may therefore be questioned by better quality observations, meaning the models will need to be improved and tested. This includes: the modelling and removal of stellar activity signals in transit spectroscopy; assumptions about atmospheric homogeneity, and the treatment of cloud and haze, in atmosphere models; and the assumption of a solar abundance, chemical equilibrium atmosphere for gas giant planets
Dr Jo Barstow, The Open University
Dr Ingo Waldmann (UCL)
Dr Sasha Hinkley (Exeter)
Dr Nathan Mayne (Exeter)
Dr Gillian Wright (ROE)
Schedule
10:30 - 10:35 - Welcome
10:35 - 11:00 - Hannah Wakeford - Challenges of interpreting observations (20+5)
11:00 - 11:20 - Robin Baeyens - A Dichotomy in the Degree of Chemical Homogeneity of Exoplanet Atmospheres (15+5)
11:20 - 11:45 - Aarynn Carter - Future Exoplanet Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (20 +5)
11:45 - 12:05 - Ryan MacDonald - Multidimensional Atmospheric Retrievals of Exoplanet Transmission Spectra(15 + 5)
12:05 - 12:30 - Patrick Irwin - Retrievals of cloudy planets: lessons from the Solar System (20+5)
- Lunch -
13:20 - 13:40 - Discussion
13:40 - 14:00 - Dominic Samra - Modelling Mineral Snowflakes on Gas-Giant and Ultra-Hot Exoplanets (15+5)
14:00 - 14:25 - Christiane Helling - Ab-initio modelling of cloudy atmospheres: Virtual laboratories for exoplanets
14:25 - 14:45 - Xianyu Tan - Atmospheric dynamics of brown dwarfs (15+5)
14:45 - 15:10 - Duncan Christie - GCMs and synthetic observations (20+5)
15:10 - 15:30 - Katy Chubb - ExoMolOP: opacities for exoplanet atmospheres (15+5)
Fellows: Book tickets for the RAS SDM
Non Fellows: Book tickets for the RAS SDM
Ticket sales close at midnight on the 7th Jan 2021