2023 CHARA Science Meeting Program
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List of Participants for the Science Meeting
Click here for the Workshop Schedule (March 16-17, 2023)
Monday March 13, 2023
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EDT Atlanta |
PDT Los Angeles |
GMT London | CET Paris | Length (min) | Speaker | Attendance | Presentation |
| 08:40 | Continental Breakfast and Registration | ||||||
| Chair: Gail Schaefer | |||||||
| 09:20 | 06:20 | 13:20 | 14:20 | 10 | Sara Rosen | In person | Welcome from the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State University |
| 09:30 | 06:40 | 13:40 | 14:40 | 30 |
Douglas Gies
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In person | News from the CHARA Array |
| 10:00 | 07:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 40 |
Hal McAlister
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In person | History of CHARA and Interferometry at Mount Wilson |
| 10:40 | 07:40 | 14:40 | 15:40 | 20 | Coffee Break | ||
| Chair: Cyprien Lanthermann | |||||||
| 11:00 | 08:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 20 |
Gail Schaefer
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In person | |
| 11:20 | 08:20 | 15:20 | 16:20 | 20 |
Nic Scott
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In person | Updates on the CHARA Telescopes |
| 11:40 | 08:40 | 15:40 | 16:40 | 20 | Narsi Anugu | In person | Software activities shaping the CHARA Array |
| 12:00 | 09:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 20 | Jeremy Jones | In person | |
| 12:20 | 09:20 | 16:20 | 17:20 | 60 | Lunch | ||
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Chair: Katherine Shepard
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| 13:20 | 10:20 | 17:20 | 18:20 | 15 | Nils Turner | In person | |
| 13:35 | 10:35 | 17:35 | 18:35 | 15 | Robert Ligon | In person | CHARA Pathfinder: Nasmyth Instrument Bench Design |
| 13:50 | 10:50 | 17:50 | 18:50 | 15 |
Christopher Farrington
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In person | CHARA Operations and CMAP site management |
| 14:05 | 11:05 | 18:05 | 19:05 | 15 | Rainer Koehler | In person | Fiber experiments in preparation for the Mobile Telescope |
| 14:20 | 11:20 | 18:20 | 19:20 | 20 | Gerard van Belle | In person | Next Generation Interferometry Proposals for Ground and Space |
| 14:40 | 11:40 | 18:40 | 19:40 | 20 | Coffee Break | ||
| Chair: Noura Ibrahim |
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| 15:00 | 12:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 20 | Antoine Mérand | Remote | Update on VLTI |
| 15:20 | 12:20 | 19:20 | 20:20 | 20 | Jordon Stone | In person | |
| 15:40 | 12:40 | 19:40 | 20:40 | 20 | Michelle Creech-Eakman | Remote |
Update on the MROI -- Prelude to First Fringes
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| 16:00 | 13:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | End of Day | |||
| 18:00 | Conference Dinner | ||||||
Tuesday March 14, 2023
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EDT Atlanta |
PDT Los Angeles |
GMT London | CET Paris | Length (min) | Speaker | Attendance | Presentation |
| 08:40 | Continental Breakfast | ||||||
| Chair: Benjamin Setterholm | |||||||
| 09:00 | 06:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 20 | John Monnier | In person | Michigan update: MYSTIC, STST, and pipelines…. |
| 09:20 | 06:20 | 13:20 | 14:20 | 20 |
Stefan Kraus
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Remote | The MIRC-X detector upgrade and high-resolution gratings |
| 09:40 | 06:40 | 13:40 | 14:40 | 20 | Noura Ibrahim | In person | Simultaneous 6T J and H-band MIRC-X Update |
| 10:00 | 07:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 20 |
Daniel Mortimer
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Remote | Update on the BIFROST beam combiner |
| 10:20 | 07:20 | 14:20 | 15:20 | 20 | Cyprien Lanthermann | In person | Silmaril: New CHARA instrument pushing for the sensitivity of a 3-beam combiner in the H- and K-bands. |
| 10:40 | 07:40 | 14:40 | 15:40 | 20 | Coffee Break | ||
| Chair: Rob Ligon | |||||||
| 11:00 | 08:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 20 | Denis Mourard | Remote | Progress of the SPICA-VIS and SPICA-FT commissioning |
| 11:20 | 08:20 | 15:20 | 16:20 | 20 | Cyril Pannetier | Remote | Fringe-Tracking at CHARA - News from SPICA-FT |
| 11:40 | 08:40 | 15:40 | 16:40 | 20 | Nayeem Ebrahimkuttty | Remote | Stellar parameter estimation using CHARA/SPICA and stellar atmosphere models |
| 12:00 | 09:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 20 | Roxanne Ligi | In person | The scientific projects of the ISSP survey |
| 12:20 | 09:20 | 16:20 | 17:20 | 5 | Group Photo | ||
| 12:25 | 09:25 | 16:25 | 17:25 | 55 | Lunch | ||
| Chair: Arturo Martinez | |||||||
| 13:20 | 10:20 | 17:20 | 18:20 | 20 | Laurent Bourgès and Isabelle Tallon-Bosc |
In person | JMMC service updates & roadmap 2023 |
| 13:40 | 10:40 | 17:40 | 18:40 | 20 | Rachael Roettenbacher | In person | Imaging Spotted Stellar Surfaces |
| 14:00 | 11:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20 | Ryan Norris | In person | Student Science at NMT: Learning Optical Interferometry Through Projects on Evolved Stars |
| 14:20 | 11:20 | 18:20 | 19:20 | 20 | Robert Klement | In person | Subdwarf companions and the origin of Be stars |
| 14:40 | 11:40 | 18:40 | 19:40 | 20 | Coffee Break | ||
| Chair: Peter Wysocki | |||||||
| 15:00 | 12:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 20 | Eric Sandquist | Remote | Age Calibrations with Resolved Binaries in Nearby Clusters |
| 15:20 | 12:20 | 19:20 | 20:20 | 20 | Willie Torres | Remote | The Sextuple System of Castor: Orbits and Dynamical Masses |
| 15:40 | 12:40 | 19:40 | 20:40 | 20 | Becky Flores | Remote | A New Sample for Testing Stellar Evolution: Wide Binaries |
| 16:00 | 13:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | End of Day | |||
Wednesday March 15, 2023
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EDT Atlanta |
PDT Los Angeles |
GMT London | CET Paris | Length (min) | Speaker | Attendance | Presentation |
| 08:40 | Continental Breakfast | ||||||
| Chair: Rainer Koehler | |||||||
| 09:00 | 06:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 20 | Brian Kloppenborg | In person | CHARA - AAVSO Collaboration |
| 09:20 | 06:20 | 13:20 | 14:20 | 20 | Rachel Matson | In person | EMCCD Speckle Interferometry at the U.S. Naval Observatory |
| 09:40 | 06:40 | 13:40 | 14:40 | 20 | Tyler Gardner | Remote | The ARMADA survey: detecting companions down to planetary mass with precision astrometry |
| 10:00 | 07:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 20 | Yi Lu | Remote | The MIRC-X Gaia binary survey: Precision masses, orbits and ages |
| 10:20 | 07:20 | 14:20 | 15:20 | 20 | Matthew De Furio | Remote | The Small Separation A-Star Companion Population |
| 10:40 | 07:40 | 14:40 | 15:40 | 20 | Coffee Break | ||
| Chair: Nic Scott | |||||||
| 11:00 | 08:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 20 | Benjamin R Setterholm | In person | The Dynamic Inner Disk of HD 163296 |
| 11:20 | 08:20 | 15:20 | 16:20 | 20 | Issy Codron | Remote | Disc misalignment and modelling the inner au of HD143006 |
| 11:40 | 08:40 | 15:40 | 16:40 | 20 | Noura Ibrahim | In person | Imaging the Inner au of Herbig Be star V1295 Aql |
| 12:00 | 09:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 20 | Ludovic Grossard | Remote | First on-the-sky fringes at 810 nm using fibre links at CHARA |
| 12:20 | 09:20 | 16:20 | 17:20 | 60 | Lunch | ||
| Chair: Robert Klement |
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| 13:20 | 10:20 | 17:20 | 18:20 | 20 | Muhammad Zain Mobeen | In person | Imaging the stellar merger remnant V838 Monocerotis with VLTI and CHARA |
| 13:40 | 10:40 | 17:40 | 18:40 | 20 | Peter Wysocki | In person | Modeling Be Star Disk Asymmetries Using 1-Armed Spirals |
| 14:00 | 11:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20 | Katherine Shepard | In person | W Serpentis Stars |
| 14:20 | 11:20 | 18:20 | 19:20 | 20 | Narsi Anugu | In person | Circumbinary disks around evolved stars seen with the CHARA Array |
| 14:40 | 11:40 | 18:40 | 19:40 | 20 | Coffee Break | ||
| Chair: Roxanne Ligi | |||||||
| 15:00 | 12:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 20 | Ashley Elliott | In person | Measuring the Stellar and Planetary Parameters of the 51 Eridani System |
| 15:20 | 12:20 | 19:20 | 20:20 | 20 | Russel White | In person | Open Cluster Ages from Red Giant Star Sizes |
| 15:40 | 12:40 | 19:40 | 20:40 | 20 | All | Discussion - Future Directions for the CHARA Array and Interferometric Community | |
| 16:00 | 13:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | End of Day | |||
| 18:00 | Excursion - Georgia Aquarium | ||||||
Posters
SPICA instrument installation at CHARA - Julien Dejonghe
Click here for the Workshop Schedule (March 16-17, 2023)