From 94835a515e349c6f81e03a6c4983fc076a1aec88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gully Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:33:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Placeholder for the Precision stellar activity workshop --- .../precision-stellar-activity.md | 35 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md diff --git a/content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md b/content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f46209803 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Title: Precision Stellar Activity, 2019, location TBA +Save_as: precision-stellar-activity/index.html + +[TOC] + +Precision Stellar Activity + + +### Summary + +*More information to come* + + +### Venue + +We are evaluating venues for this workshop. + + +### Organizing Committee + +* Michael Gully-Santiago (K2 GO Office) +* Geert Barentsen (K2 GO Office) +* Ann Marie Cody (K2 GO Office) +* Christina Hedges (K2 GO Office) +* Jessie Dotson (K2 Project Scientist) + + +### Workshop participants + + +* Michael Gully-Santiago (NASA Ames) +* Geert Barentsen (K2 GO Office) +* Ann Marie Cody (K2 GO Office) +* Christina Hedges (K2 GO Office) +* Jessie Dotson (K2 Project Scientist) From 43572806b20d4c48a5e82b3279f980a5e9b39f66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gully Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:02:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add more example content to the precision stellar activity workshop --- .../precision-stellar-activity.md | 51 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md b/content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md index f46209803..70f4d90a5 100644 --- a/content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md +++ b/content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md @@ -6,16 +6,61 @@ Save_as: precision-stellar-activity/index.html Precision Stellar Activity -### Summary +### Rationale -*More information to come* +The quantity and quality of time-series observations of stars has grown profoundly over the last decade, driven in large part by the Kepler/K2 mission. These data have catalyzed new research avenues within the collection of research topics broadly referred to as "stellar activity". This workshop aims to assemble practitioners of stellar activity data analysis with a goal of advancing the field to a new era of *precision stellar activity*-- the ability to quantify dynamic surface processes on stars with enhanced predictive power. We will reserve a large fraction of the time for unstructured innovation following the success of the Astro Data Hack Week, Gaia Sprints, and PyAstro. +The workshop will focus on several hallmark themes of stellar activity that can be addressed with existing Kepler/K2 data in conjunction with ancillary datasets: +1. Constraining starspot and facula coverage fractions and their temperature contrasts +2. Exoplanets and eclipsing binaries as tomographic probes of stellar surfaces +3. Gaussian process regression in the time-domain +4. Contemporaneous lightcurve and multi-epoch spectroscopic monitoring +5. Atmospheric depth effects and the suppression of convective blueshift in high resolution spectroscopy +6. Aggregated and incoherent signals from granulation and flicker +7. Customizing K2 detrending to preserve astrophysical signals of interest +8. Evaluating heuristic methods with synthetic data / building predictive models + + +### Intended participants + +We are targeting data analysis practitioners in the subfield of stellar activity. The participants should have---or seek---expertise in high precision time series data analysis and/or stellar astrophysics. + + +### Tentative Structure + +#### Day zero (optional introductory tutorials) + +*Morning* +- Configuring your environment +- pandas, Jupyter, matplotlib +- lightkurve tutorial +- Model fitting frameworks & MCMC +- Gaussian process tutorial + +The afternoon will specialize with three parallel tracks. +*Afternoon, Track 1* +- Querying and crossmatching, Gaia demo + +*Afternoon, Track 2* +- Spectroscopy tools + +*Afternoon, Track 3* +- Systematics in Kepler/K2 + +#### Day one (first full day of workshop) +TBD + +#### Day two +TBD + +#### Day three +TBD + ### Venue We are evaluating venues for this workshop. - ### Organizing Committee * Michael Gully-Santiago (K2 GO Office) From 3fb6437f0b659612bab9208508282dda3ea656c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gully Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:58:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Add placeholder in the conferences portal, update formating for precision activity workshop --- content/pages/the-missions/conferences.md | 16 ++++--- .../precision-stellar-activity.md | 45 ++++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/pages/the-missions/conferences.md b/content/pages/the-missions/conferences.md index 3692c9f39..dfadabbad 100644 --- a/content/pages/the-missions/conferences.md +++ b/content/pages/the-missions/conferences.md @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ Save_as: conferences.html website, #KeplerSciCon tweets + + + TBD + Precision Stellar Activity Workshop + Planning phase + + @@ -50,7 +57,7 @@ Save_as: conferences.html K2 Supernova Cosmology Workshop website, #K2SN tweets - + Jan 2017 K2/TESS Special Session at AAS 229th Meeting @@ -74,7 +81,7 @@ Save_as: conferences.html href="/k2-special-session-at-aas227-on-5-jan-2016.html">schedule, #AAS227 tweets - + Nov 2015 K2 Science Conference @@ -87,7 +94,7 @@ Save_as: conferences.html website, #KeplerHack tweets - + May 2015 K2 Microlensing Workshop @@ -118,6 +125,3 @@ Save_as: conferences.html - - - diff --git a/content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md b/content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md index 70f4d90a5..7fd1e41bb 100644 --- a/content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md +++ b/content/pages/the-missions/precision-stellar-activity.md @@ -11,15 +11,16 @@ Save_as: precision-stellar-activity/index.html The quantity and quality of time-series observations of stars has grown profoundly over the last decade, driven in large part by the Kepler/K2 mission. These data have catalyzed new research avenues within the collection of research topics broadly referred to as "stellar activity". This workshop aims to assemble practitioners of stellar activity data analysis with a goal of advancing the field to a new era of *precision stellar activity*-- the ability to quantify dynamic surface processes on stars with enhanced predictive power. We will reserve a large fraction of the time for unstructured innovation following the success of the Astro Data Hack Week, Gaia Sprints, and PyAstro. -The workshop will focus on several hallmark themes of stellar activity that can be addressed with existing Kepler/K2 data in conjunction with ancillary datasets: -1. Constraining starspot and facula coverage fractions and their temperature contrasts -2. Exoplanets and eclipsing binaries as tomographic probes of stellar surfaces -3. Gaussian process regression in the time-domain -4. Contemporaneous lightcurve and multi-epoch spectroscopic monitoring -5. Atmospheric depth effects and the suppression of convective blueshift in high resolution spectroscopy -6. Aggregated and incoherent signals from granulation and flicker -7. Customizing K2 detrending to preserve astrophysical signals of interest -8. Evaluating heuristic methods with synthetic data / building predictive models +The workshop will focus on several hallmark themes of stellar activity that can be addressed with existing Kepler/K2 data in conjunction with ancillary datasets: + +1. Constraining starspot and facula coverage fractions and their temperature contrasts +2. Exoplanets and eclipsing binaries as tomographic probes of stellar surfaces +3. Gaussian process regression in the time-domain +4. Contemporaneous lightcurve and multi-epoch spectroscopic monitoring +5. Atmospheric depth effects and the suppression of convective blueshift in high resolution spectroscopy +6. Aggregated and incoherent signals from granulation and flicker +7. Customizing K2 detrending to preserve astrophysical signals of interest +8. Evaluating heuristic methods with synthetic data / building predictive models ### Intended participants @@ -31,22 +32,22 @@ We are targeting data analysis practitioners in the subfield of stellar activity #### Day zero (optional introductory tutorials) -*Morning* -- Configuring your environment -- pandas, Jupyter, matplotlib -- lightkurve tutorial -- Model fitting frameworks & MCMC -- Gaussian process tutorial +**Morning** +- Configuring your environment +- pandas, Jupyter, matplotlib +- lightkurve tutorial +- Model fitting frameworks & MCMC +- Gaussian process tutorial -The afternoon will specialize with three parallel tracks. -*Afternoon, Track 1* -- Querying and crossmatching, Gaia demo +The afternoon will specialize with three parallel tracks. +**Afternoon, Track 1** +- Querying and crossmatching, Gaia demo -*Afternoon, Track 2* -- Spectroscopy tools +**Afternoon, Track 2** +- Spectroscopy tools -*Afternoon, Track 3* -- Systematics in Kepler/K2 +**Afternoon, Track 3** +- Systematics in Kepler/K2 #### Day one (first full day of workshop) TBD