WFIRST at the 231st AAS Meeting
January 10, 2018
Washington, DC
Special Session: Exoplanet Science with WFIRST
- Mission Status - Jeffrey Kruk (NASA/GSFC)
- Coronagraph Instrument Update - Jeremy Kasdin (Princeton)
- WFIRST Exoplanet Data Simulations and Retrieval Exercises - Sergi Hildebrandt (JPL)
- Microlensing Exoplanet Mass Measurements with WFIRST - Aparna Bhattacharya (GSFC/UMd)
- WFIRST is not just for Cold Planets: Transiting Planets with the WFIRST Microlensing Survey - Matthew Penny (Ohio State)
- Starshade Rendezvous Mission Concept - Sara Seager (MIT)
Special Session: Astrophysics with WFIRST
- Mission Status and NASA Response to the WIETR Independent Review - Jeffrey Kruk (Goddard Space Flight Center)
- Black Holes in the Cosmic Web: Evolution of AGN, Galaxies, and Large-Scale Structures in the Era of WFIRST - Ryan Hickox (Dartmouth College)
- Galaxy Formation and Evolution in the WFIRST Era: From Census to Synthesis of the Lifecycle of Galaxies - Kate Whitaker (University of Connecticut)
- Galaxy Archaeology with WFIRST: Sureying the Local volume at High-Resolution - Alan McConnachie (University of Victoria)
- Exploring the Structure of the Milky Way with WFIRST - Heidi NewBerg (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
- LSST-WFIRST Synergies and Discoveries - Beth Willman (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope)
WFIRST AAS Posters
- WFIRST: Project Overview and Status - Jeffrey Kruk (GSFC; #355.39)
- Mass Measurement of Microlensing Exoplanets with HST - Aparna Bhattacharya (NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre and University of Maryland; #148.10)
- Coronagraph Instrument Detection and Characterization of Circumstellar Disks - John Debes (STScI; #147.19)
- Extragalactic Science over Twelve Billion Years of Cosmic History - Mark Dickinson (NOAO; #149.51)
- Exoplanet Data Challenge - Sergi Hildebrandt (JPL, California Institute of Technology; #158.03)
- WFIRST: Searching for Microlens Planets in Very Wide Orbits and the MOA Microlensing Data Release - Yuki Hirao (Osaka University and NASA/GSFC; #246.17)
- Resolving the Milky Way Galaxy with WFIRST - Jason Kalirai (JHU/STScI; #237.10)
- Exoplanet Target Selection and Scheduling with Greedy Optimization - Dean Keithly (Cornell University; #246.06)
- WFIRST: A Simple Approach for the Recovery of Planetary Parameters From Microlensing Light Curves - Somayeh Khakpash (Lehigh University; #354.20)
- Simulating and Analyzing Wide Field High Resolution Images of Nearby Galaxies -Rubab Khan (University of Washington; #150.40)
- WFIRST: Science from Deep Field Surveys - A. M. Koekemoer (STScI; #153.03)
- WFIRST: Data/Instrument Simulation Support at ISOC - Seppo Laine (Caltech/IPAC; #354.36)
- Science Applications of the coronagraph instrument - Emily Levesque (University of Washington; #355.25)
- Predicting the number density of Hα-emitting galaxies - Alex Merson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; #354.08)
- WFIRST : Science in the Solar System - Stefanie Milam (NASA/GSFC; #144.15)
- Simulating the WFIRST Sky - Molly S. Peeples (STScI; #354.02)
- WFIRST Guest Investigator & Parallel Observation Science - Marc Postman (STScI; #354.07)
- Integrated Coronagraph Design and Science Yield Modeling - A.J. Riggs (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; #246.44)
- WFIRST: REALISTIC SIMULATIONS OF CORONAGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS - Maxime J. Rizzo (NASA Goddard; #148.34)
- Mapping the Milky Way’s Dark Matter Halo with WFIRST - Amy Secunda (Columbia University/AMNH; #344.03)
- WFIRST Coronagraph Technology Development Testbeds: Status Update and Recent Testbed Results - Fang Shi (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; #246.18)
- WFIRST: Microlensing Analysis Data Challenge - R.A. Street (Las Cumbres Observatory; #158.06)
