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17 -- Formation, Composition, and Detection of Habitable Extrasolar Planets
TWO ORAL SESSIONS
TUESDAY, April 15, 2008: AFTERNOON
Formation, Composition, and Detection of Habitable Extrasolar Planets: Part I
WEDNESDAY, April 16, 2008: MORNING
Formation, Composition, and Detection of Habitable Extrasolar Planets: Part II
Nader Haghighipour
Institute for Astronomy
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI, USA
Victoria Meadows
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Steinn Sigurdsson
Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA, USA
Description
Detection of extrasolar terrestrial planets is a challenging task that concerns both theorists and observers. As observational techniques are developed to identify terrestrial and possibly habitable planets around other stars, theoretical investigations are being carried out to determine the types of systems that may be able to host such objects. The recent detections of Earth-like planets (Super-Earths) on close-in orbits are among such successful attempts. It is also expected that with the recent launch of CoRoT, the launch of Kepler in 2009, and improvements in the performance of ground-based observational efforts, many more such planets will be discovered. Questions regarding the habitability of systems with close-in Jovian-type planets, the formation of hot-Earths, and the formation of habitable planets in multistar systems are now major challenges in astronomy and astrobiology. In this session we invite contributions on the formation, composition, and detection of habitable extrasolar planets in general, and in particular on the frequency of formation of habitable planets, their predicted interior and atmospheric characteristics, their dynamical evolution, and the delivery of volatiles to their surfaces.
ORAL SESSIONS
TUESDAY, April 15, 2008: AFTERNOON
Formation, Composition, and Detection of Habitable Extrasolar Planets: Part I
3:15 17-09-O. Detecting Water Vapor in the Atmospheres of Transiting Extrasolar
Planets [invited] D. Deming
3:35 17-16-O. Carbon Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks: Quantifying the Feedstock
of Habitable Planets M. Kress, S. Raymond, Al. Tielens
3:50 17-02-O. Planets Around Dim Red Stars and a Novel Way of Finding Them
D. Apai, M.R. Meyer, P. Hinz, A. Heinze, M. Andersen, S. Sivanandam, M. Kasper,
M. Kenworthy, D. Miller
4:05 17-17-O. The Formation and Detectability of Habitable Planets Orbiting Alpha Cen
B. [invited] G. Laughlin, Guedes, J. M., Quintana, E., Davis, E., Rivera, E., Fischer, D.
4:25 BREAK
4:40 17-22-O. Formation and Tidal-Orbital Evolution of Habitable Zone Planets Around
Low-Mass Stars S. Raymond, R. Barnes, B. Jackson, R. Greenberg, J. Scalo, V. Meadows
4:55 17-12-O. Prospects of The Detection of Short-Period Terrestrial-Class Objects in
the Vicinity of Close-in Giant Planets N. Haghighipour, E. Agol, J. Steffen
5:10 17-28-O. New Earth Observations Are Needed for Planet/Life Finding N. Woolf
WEDNESDAY, April 16, 2008: MORNING
Formation, Composition, and Detection of Habitable Extrasolar Planets: Part II
9:45 17-21-O. Habitable Planets in Binary Star Systems [invited]
F. Rasio, R. Kita, G. Takeda
10:05 17-20-O. The Formation of Earth-like Planets in Binary Star Systems
E. Quintana, J.J. Lissauer, F.C. Adams, J.E. Chambers
10:20 17-4-O. Long-Term Obliquity Evolution of Reimagined Moonless Earths
J. Barnes, J.J. Lissauer, J.E. Chambers
10:35 BREAK
10:50 17-26-O. Terrestrial Planet Formation and Water Distribution in the Disk of a
Herbig Ae Star K. Torres, O. Winter
11:05 17-06-O. Inverting Light Curves to Produce Exoplanet Maps N. Cowan, E. Egol
11:20 17-13-O. Formation Scenarios for Pulsar Planets B. Hansen, H.-Y. Shih, T. Currie
POSTERS
17-01-P. Results of a Search for Habitable-Zone Planets with SuperWASP D. Anderson
17-03-P. Using Polarization to Detect and Characterize Extrasolar Planets J. Bailey
17-05-P. Constraints on Transitional Disk Evolution Scenarios S. Berukoff
17-07-P. Astrobiological Use of CAB's Robotic Telescopes
L. Cuesta and Robotic Telescope Team
17-08-P. Detecting Biosignatures of an Evolving Atmosphere of an Earth-like Planet via
New Worlds Observer J. DeMarines, W. Cash, G. Arney, P. Oakley
17-10-P. The NASA Keck/NIRSPEC Search for Giant Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone
Around M Dwarfs R. Deshpande, Ed. Martin, M. Montgomery, M.R. Zapatero-Osorio,
N. Phan-Bao, H. Bouy, R.Tata
17-11-P. The Atmospheric Circulations of Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Low-Mass Stars
A. Edson, D. Pollard, S. Lee, P. Bannon, J. Kasting
17-14-P. Chemical Composition of Early Atmosphere on Earth-like Planets
G. Hashimoto, Y. Abe, S. Sugita
17-15-P. HI STAR: Hawaii Student/Teacher Astronomy Research Program
M.A. Kadooka, C. Garland, M. Nassir
17-18-P. A Roadmap for Detection of Habitable Planets Around Really Cool Dwarfs
E. Martin, C. del Burgo, R. Deshpande, P. Esparza, E. Guenther, M. Montgomery, P.B. Ngoc,
R. Tata, L. Valdivielso, M.R. Zapatero-Osorio
17-19-P. New Worlds Observer: Spectroscopy and Photometry of Terrestrial Exoplanet
Atmospheres R. Mickol, G. Arney, P. Oakley, W. Cash
17-23-P. Oxygen and Ozone Abiotic Production on High Carbon Bioxide Terrestrial
Atmospheres A. Segura, V.S. Meadows, J. Kasting, D. Crisp, M. Cohen
17-24-P. Forming the First Planetary Systems C. Sheehan, J. Greaves
17-25-P. An Investigation of the Stability of Systems of Earth-mass Bodies Orbiting
a Sun-like Star A. Smith, J. Lissauer
17-27-P. Exploring Habitable Exoplanets with the New Worlds Observer
M. Turnbull, A. Roberge, W. Cash, New Worlds Observer Team
17-29-P. Atmospheric Mass Loss by Stellar Winds on Planets Around Main Sequence M
Stars J. Zendejas, A. Segura, A. Raga