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Blue Dots Team

Blue Dots Team. Kick-off meeting. Today’s agenda. 13h45: Welcome, general introduction (Vincent) Aims of the BDT Overview of products and agenda Initial discussion (15mn) 14h15: Introductory remarks by each participant (10mn + 5mn discussion each) 16h15-16h30: coffee break

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Blue Dots Team

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  1. Blue Dots Team Kick-off meeting

  2. Today’s agenda • 13h45: Welcome, general introduction (Vincent) • Aims of the BDT • Overview of products and agenda • Initial discussion (15mn) • 14h15: • Introductory remarks by each participant (10mn + 5mn discussion each) • 16h15-16h30: coffee break • 16h30: introductory remarks by each participant (10mn + 5mn discussion each), continued • 18h45: ExoPlanet Task Force report and other US news • 19h15 discussions/info on ESA and the BDT • 19h30: end of the meeting for the day • 20h00: joint dinner BDT kick-off

  3. Dinner tonight • Starting 8PM • Restaurant « La Grande Ourse » • 9 rue Georges Saché, 75014 Paris • Walking distance from IAP: 1300m • Cost ~40€ / person • Tel. +33 1 40 44 67 85 • My cell phone +33 6 88 77 17 44 BDT kick-off

  4. Tomorrow’s agenda • 9h00-10h00: Proposed working methodology (Vincent) and discussion • 10h15-11h45: Discussions on: • Working groups composition • Outreach to the community • Early funding strategies, ISSI team proposal • 2009 BD conference • 11h45-13h15: lunch • 13h15-13h45: the when's and where's of the next meetings for 2008 • 13h45-14h00: Discussion on short term actions • 14h00-16h00: • Presentation of the collaborative working tools (website etc.) by F. Henry and discussion • Open discussion • 16h00: adjourn BDT kick-off

  5. The Blue Dots initiative • Realizing that: • There is one big science goal but many intermediate steps • Partnering will be crucial • Visibility of the field (as a community) needs to be improved • A committee is formed: • To prepare a roadmap towards the detection and characterization of habitable exoplanets • Science based, not restricted to a particular detection technique • To seek and promote international partnership • To structure the promotion of the theme within the astronomy community and the general public The goal is to build a real community ! BDT kick-off

  6. Responses • More than 180 responses to date: • By country: • AT: 5, AU: 2, BE: 8, CH: 6, CN: 1, DE: 18, FI: 1, FR: 45, GR: 1, IE: 1, IT: 4, JP: 2, NL: 8, PL: 4, PT: 1, RU: 4, SE: 1, SP: 6, UK: 31, US: 11 • By theme: • Formation: 1 • Habitability: 8 • Astrometry: 12 • Microlensing: 1 • Targets: 15 • Nulling: 25 • Biomarkers: 23 • Atmospheres: 16 • Outreach: 9 • RV: 7 • Networking: 9 BDT kick-off

  7. Challenges • Integrate multidisciplinary knowledge • Self-appointed, self-mandated group has to build credibility by itself • And fund itself… (~100k€ for the first two years of activity) • Be compact but broad reaching • Compact for effectiveness • Broad reaching for completeness • Take into account boundary conditions: • ESA’s calendar, formats • NASA’s agenda (cf. ExoTPF report, decadal review) • The roadmap has to be endorsed to be useful… BDT kick-off

  8. Blue Dots Team (core) • General coordination: • V. Coudé du Foresto • Science expert group coordinators: • C. Cockell, G. Tinetti, F. Selsis, I. Ribas, H. Zinnecker • Instrumentation expert group coordinators: • N. Santos, J.-P. Beaulieu, A. Sozzetti, D. Segransan, A. Boccaletti, M. Ollivier • Interface with industry: • Christoph Keller • European networking & funding search: • Helmut Lammer • Public outreach & education: • Ewa Szuszkiewicz • NASA representative: • Chas Beichmann • ESO representative: • Gerard van Belle • Russia / Eastern Europe contact: • Maxim Khodachenko • Contact for Japan: • Hiroshi Shibai • Contact for China: • XiaoWei Liu (TBC) • Contact for India: • Abhijit Chakraborty BDT kick-off

  9. Goals of this meeting • Establish the « rules of the game » • Clarify agenda for the next ~2 years • Set-up our working tools BDT kick-off

  10. The ESA perspective • No need to appoint a contact person to a community initiative • Creation of a Task Force • The goal is to advise ESA on where to spend tech money • Chairman Artie Atzes • 2-3 meetings in March-April • Draft report due in May • « The result of this group will likely be exactly the same as the US task force » BDT kick-off

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  12. Rules of the game ? • It is important that rules of the game are clearly stated before the game starts • Internal rules • External rules BDT kick-off

  13. Open questions • Attendance to BD meetings ? • Open? Upon invitation? • Invited speakers? • How do we respond to sollicitations for Blue Dots « blessing »? BDT kick-off

  14. Workgroups • Should they take a close or open form ? • Should there be a WG on exoplanets structures ? • The case of J. Schneider BDT kick-off

  15. Timeline to roadmap(TBC) • 2008 Q2 – 2008 Q3: collecting inputs from community • 2008 Q4 – 2009 Q2: synthetizing results • 2009 Q4 : Blue Dots conference BDT kick-off

  16. Methodology…the easy part / the hard part • How to collect information ? • Virtual call for proposal • How to synthesize it ? • How to build a consensus: • Among ourselves • Among the community • Do we allow roadmap with options ? BDT kick-off

  17. Increasing visibility through the community • Informing the community • Informing the ESA bodies (AWG, SSAC) • Responding to everyone • Participation to conferences • What else? BDT kick-off

  18. Relevant conferences • AbSciCon 2008: The Fifth Astrobiology Science Conference • Tuesday, 15 April 2008 - Thursday, 17 April 2008 • Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California USA • http://abscicon.seti.org/ • The Universe under the Microscope - Astronomy at High Angular Resolution • Monday, 21 April 2008 - Friday, 25 April 2008 • Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (Köln/Bonn, Germany) • http://www.astro.uni-koeln.de/AHAR08/ • Extra-Solar Super-Earths • Monday, 16 June 2008 - Wednesday, 18 June 2008 • Nantes, France • http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/geol/SuperEarths2008/ • Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008 • Monday, 23 June 2008 - Saturday, 28 June 2008 • Marseille, France • http://spie.org • 15th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun • Monday, 21 July 2008 - Friday, 25 July 2008 • St Andrews, Scotland • http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/coolstars15/ • Characteristics and Habitability of Super Earths • Sunday, 17 August 2008 - Sunday, 7 September 2008 • Aspen, Colorado • http://aspenphys.org/documents/program/summer08.html • 15th International Conference on the Origin of Life • Sunday, 24 August 2008 - Friday, 29 August 2008 • Florence, Italy • http://www.dbag.unifi.it/issol2008/ • Extrasolar Planets in Multi-Body Systems: Theory and Observations • Monday, 25 August 2008 - Friday, 29 August 2008 • Torun, Poland • http://exoplanets.astri.umk.pl • Cosmic Dust - Near & Far • Monday, 8 September 2008 - Friday, 12 September 2008 • Convention Center Heidelberg, Germany • http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/DNF08/ • Searching for life signatures • Monday, September 22 - Friday, September 26, 2008 • Paris (UNESCO?), France • http://iaaweb.org/content/view/295/434/ BDT kick-off

  19. The conference • With Danchi • When? Where? • Candidates: Napoli (Capodimonte), Marseilles (PopSud) • Call for proposals BDT kick-off

  20. Web site • Mission statement • Collaborative tool: • Will we use it? • Science briefs? • For scientists • For general public BDT kick-off

  21. Constitution of expert groups • All respondees need to be replied to • If a coordinator cannot attend a meeting, he can send another member of the expert group BDT kick-off

  22. Initial timeline • Dec 07: IAS meeting • Jan 08 : annoucement • Sorting the > 180 responses • Feb 08 : constitution of core group • 20-21 Mar 08 : kick-off meeting • Mar 08 : constitution of expert and support groups BDT kick-off

  23. Stay tuned… http://www.blue-dots.net BDT kick-off

  24. Blue Dots TeamExpert groups and their coordinators • Instrumentation themes: • Radial velocities: • Nuño Santos • Microlensing: • Jean-Philippe Beaulieu • Transits: • Alessandro Sozzetti • Astrometry: • Damien Segransan • Single aperture imaging: • Anthony Boccaletti • Multiple aperture imaging: • Marc Ollivier • Science themes: • Habitability criteria: • Charles Cockell • Exoplanetary atmospheres: • Giovanna Tinetti • Signatures interpretation & biomarkers: • Franck Selsis • Targets & their environments: • Ignasi Ribas • Planetary formation & evolution: • Hans Zinnecker BDT kick-off

  25. Boundary conditions • ExoPlaTF • ESA’s group • ESA calendar • NASA calendar BDT kick-off

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