Polarimetry of planetary systems
Dates: 23-26 September, 2013
Location: Florence, Italy, Villa Il Gioiello (Galileo's house), via del Pian dei Giullari, 42 - Firenze
Description:
Polarimetric techcniques are routinely exploited to study the surface structure of the atmosphere-less bodies of our solar ystem, the atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and of the giant planets. More recently, polarimetry has gained popularity as a potential tool for the study of exo-solar planets. This workshop will be an opportunity to strengthen the community of astronomers interested in polarimetry of the objects of our and other solar systems, and to discuss what are the open questions that can be addressed by polarimetry. This workshop will be also an opportunity to coordinate future projects.
Participants will be invited to give presentations, but high priority will be given to guided discussions. Subjects covered are:
The workshop will be limited to 40 participants. There will be some financial support from the COST action for some of them. If you want financial support you can request it on the registration page.
The workshop venue has several rooms that will be available to small working groups.
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The programme is available in PDF format here.
Monday 23
Observations and modelling of atmosphere-less bodies of the solar system
Chair : A. Cellino
Cellino : Asteroid Polarimetry: State of the art and a roadmap for future developments
Tanga, Cellino & Bagnulo : Portraits of Barbarians
Fornasier & Belskaya: Polarimetric observations of 2867 Steins and 21 Lutetia, targets of the Rosetta mission: groundtruth from the Rosetta fly-bys
Muinonen, Zubko, Pentiilä, & Videen: Polarimetric modeling of atmosphereless solar system bodies
Belskaya & Bagnulo: Polarimetry of Transneptunian Objects and Centaurs
Levasseur-Regourd: Polarimetry of comets, with emphasis on comet 67P/C-G
Bagnulo, Boehnhardt, Kolokolova & Tozzi: Spectro-polarimetry of comets 9P and 73P
Tozzi, Bagnulo, Boehnhardt, & Fornasier: Polarimetric Observations of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the target of the mission Rosetta.
Boneva, Filipov & Yankova : On the study of small bodies and Zodiacal light
Tuesday 24
THE PLANETS OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND THEIR ATMOSPHERES
Chair : S. Bagnulo
Sterzik et al.: Spectropolarimetry of the Earthshine
Pallé, Miles-Paéz, & Zapaterio Osorio: Spectropolarimetry of the Earthshine from visible to near-infrared wavelengths
Bazzon, Schmid, & Gisler: The polarization of Earth
Lopez Ariste, Leblanc, Le Men, & Gelly: Spectropolarimetry of the exosphere of Mercury
Rodenhuis, Snik, Einarsen et al.: Narrow-band imaging polarimetry of the atmospheres of Venus and Saturn at multiple visible wavelengths
Buenzli, Bazzon, & Schmid: Limb polarisation as a probe of haze in outer planet atmospheres
Garca Munoz: A Backward Monte Carlo model for polarization in planetary atmospheres
Stam: Spectropolarimetric signatures of Earth-like extrasolar planets
Wednesday 25
INSTRUMENTS
Chair : F. Snik
Borisov & Bonev: Possibilities of FoRoRo2 at NAO Rozhen for polarimetric and spectropolarimetric observations. Comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) preliminary results
Schmid & Bazzon: SPHERE-ZIMPOL polarimetry of planetary systems
Focardi et al.: A proposal for a novel integrated nano Wire Grid Polarisers-based VNIR polarimeter for planetary studies from space
Stam : Observing the Earth as an exoplanet with LOUPE, the lunar observatory for unresolved polarimetry of Earth
Snik and the iSPEX team.: iSPEX: measurements of atmospheric aerosols by a citizen science network using smartphone spectropolarimeters
Suarez, Bendyoya, & Rivet: EduCosmos: Participative science for high school students with 1m telescope
Thursday 26
EXO-SOLAR PLANETS
Chair : M. Sterzik
Kostogryz & Berduygina: Polarimetry of transiting exoplanets
Shchukina & Trujillo Bueno: The continuum polarization of stars with transiting exoplanetary systems
Snik et al.: Infrared polarimetry of the HR 8799 planets near-infrared wavelengths
Miles-Páez, Zapatero Osorio , Pallé, & Pena Ramirez: Linear polarization of rapidly rotating ultracool dwarfs
Berdyugina, Berdyugin, & Piirola: Polarimetry of Hot Inflated Jupiters Reveals Their Blue Colors
- Stefano Bagnulo
- Andreas Bazzon
- Irina Belskaya
- Svetlana Berdyugina
- Daniela Boneva
- Galin Borisov
- Esther Buenzli
- Alberto Cellino
- Maxime Devogèle
- Mauro Focardi
- Antonio Garcia Munoz
- Maria Gritsevich
- Nadiia Kostogryz
- Egidio Landi Degl'Innocenti
- Federico Landini
- Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd
- Arturo Lopez Ariste
- Karri Muinonen
- Will McLean
- Jean-Pierre Rivet
- Michiel Rodenhuis
- Rafael Manso Sainz
- Paulo Miles-Páez
- Patrizio Patriarchi
- Enric Palle
- Nataliia Shchukina
- Frans Snik
- Daphne Stam
- Michael Sterzik
- Aaron Stinson
- Paolo Tanga
- Gian Paolo Tozzi
- Padma Yanamandra-Fisher
- Antonella Maraviggia
- Emanuela Masini