Polarimetry of planetary systems

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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:

- Observations of asteroids
- Observations of comets
- Observations of centaurs and TNOs
- Observations of the atmospheres of the bodies of our solar system
- Polarimetry of extra-solar planetary systems
- Modelling of the atmospheres of the exo-solar planets
- Auroral/Thermospheric lines
- Observations of bio-signatures
- Modelling of the surface structure of the atmosphere-less bodies of our solar system
- Observations and data reduction techniques
- Current and future instrumentation
- Polarimetry for a larger audience
 

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.

SOC:

S. Bagnulo (Armagh Observatory, UK, chair)
M. Barthélemy (IPAG, France)
I. Belskaya (Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, co-chair)
A-C Levasseur-Regourd (UPMC, LATMOS, France)
A. Cellino (Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Italy, co-chair)
H. Lamy (BISA, Belgium)
K. Muinonen (University of HelsinkiI, Finland)
H.M. Schmid (KTH Zurich, Switzerland)
F. Snik (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
D. Stam (University of Delft, Netherlands)
M. Sterzik (ESO)
G.P. Tozzi (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy)
 

LOC:

S. Bagnulo
E. Masini
G.P. Tozzi (chair)
 

 
Programme


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

Rivet et al.: CAPS@C2PU

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

 

 
List of participants
  1. Stefano Bagnulo
  2. Andreas Bazzon
  3. Irina Belskaya
  4. Svetlana Berdyugina
  5. Daniela Boneva
  6. Galin Borisov
  7. Esther Buenzli
  8. Alberto Cellino
  9. Maxime Devogèle
  10. Mauro Focardi
  11. Antonio Garcia Munoz
  12. Maria Gritsevich
  13. Nadiia Kostogryz
  14. Egidio Landi Degl'Innocenti
  15. Federico Landini
  16. Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd
  17. Arturo Lopez Ariste
  18. Karri Muinonen
  19. Will McLean
  20. Jean-Pierre Rivet
  21. Michiel Rodenhuis
  22. Rafael Manso Sainz
  23. Paulo Miles-Páez
  24. Patrizio Patriarchi
  25. Enric Palle
  26. Nataliia Shchukina
  27. Frans Snik
  28. Daphne Stam
  29. Michael Sterzik
  30. Aaron Stinson
  31. Paolo Tanga
  32. Gian Paolo Tozzi
  33. Padma Yanamandra-Fisher
  34. Antonella Maraviggia
  35. Emanuela Masini