IAU Symposium No.253 - Transiting Planets
| Event Details: |
| From: |
19 May 2008 |
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| To: |
23 May 2008 |
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| Address: |
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
136 Irving Street
Cambridge
Massachusetts
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| Country: |
United States |
| More info: |
Link to event website |
The symposium is motivated by the quickly expanding research on extra-solar planets and the growth of interest in this topic among the astronomy community. Among the many discoveries related to this young field, the detection and study of transiting planets has now emerged as an extremely fruitful research area.
Main topics:
- The transit search surveys
- The COROT mission
- Measuring the planet characteristics
- The formation, evolution and compositions of close-in planets
- Detecting the planet emerging flux
- The planet atmosphere and exosphere
- Future programs/missions
Last Update: 18 Apr 2008
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