Lead organizers: Jan Forbrich (Hertfordshire), Peter K. G. Williams (Harvard CfA). Co-organizers: Edo Berger (Harvard CfA), Manual Güdel (Vienna), Rachel Osten (STScI).
A splinter session of the Cool Stars 20 conference, held July 29–August 3, 2018 in Boston, USA.
Radio observations of cool stellar systems provide unique information on their magnetic fields, high-energy processes, and chemistry. Buoyed by powerful new instruments (e.g. ALMA, JVLA, LOFAR), advances in related fields (e.g. the Gaia astrometric revolution), and above all a renewed interest in the relevant stellar astrophysics, stellar radio astronomy is experiencing a renaissance. In this splinter session, participants will take stock of the present state of stellar radio astronomy and chart a course for the field’s future. Read more on the Motivation page.
The session will include a “poster pop” segment, where you can have 60 seconds and one slide to advertise your poster. If you’d like to participate, email your slide as a one-page PDF to pwilliams@cfa.harvard.edu before Tuesday afternoon!
Submit soon as slots are limited. Submissions connecting to the session theme will be preferred, but all topics are welcome.
It’s located behind the main room in which the plenaries take place.
We’re exploring the idea of a “radio dinner” on Tuesday night after the splinter session. If you’re interested, please contact janforbrich@gmail.com. Let us know if you have any food allergies, and (for scheduling purposes) if you’d also like to attend the “Academics to Industry” panel of Tuesday evening.
The session will take place Tuesday afternoon (July 31). The location will be determined day-of based on needed room capacity.
| 14:00–14:12 | Moira Jardine | Simulating Radio Emission from Low Mass Stars |
| 14:12–14:24 | Jackie Villadsen | Resolved imaging of the quiet and flaring radio corona of active M dwarfs |
| 14:24–14:36 | Sofia Moschou | Examining Stellar CME candidates: Does the solar flare-CME relation extend to other stars? |
| 14:36–14:48 | Ward Howard | Evryscope detection of the first Proxima superflare: Habitability Impacts and Multi-Messenger Opportunities |
| 14:48–15:00 | Andrew Zic | Low-frequency GMRT observations of ultra-cool dwarfs |
| 15:00–15:12 | Luis Quiroga-Nuñez | Serendipitous discovery of variability at low radio frequencies: the case of M-dwarf star Ross 867 |
| 15:12–15:30 | Poster pops | |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee and posters | |
| 16:00–16:12 | Joseph Rodriguez | Occultations as a Window into Circumstellar Architecture: RW Aurigae |
| 16:12–16:24 | Emily Drabek-Maunder | Planet formation inside 10 AU: the disc of DG Tau A observed with the Planet-Earth Building-Blocks Legacy eMERLIN Survey |
| 16:24–16:36 | Robert Mutel | Scaling laws for election cyclotron maser emission: How CMI emission characteristics differ in planetary and stellar magnetospheres |
| 16:36–16:48 | Lynn Matthews | Resolving the Radio Surfaces of AGB Stars |
| 16:48–17:30 | Discussion |
You are encouraged to email Peter K. G. Williams and Jan Forbrich with any questions or comments you may have.
You can download the session poster here.
We are committed to a conducting splinter session that upholds the Cool Stars 20 goal of providing an experience that is productive and enjoyable for all participants. In particular, we are bound by and will uphold the broader Cool Stars 20 Code of Conduct.