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What are we? We are a group composed of staff, analysts, students from STScI, JHU and beyond, working on exoplanetary science being done with transiting and/or radial-velocity planets: spanning from detection (e.g., transit surveys, RV surveys, etc.) to atmospheric characterization (e.g., ground-based low/high res transit spectroscopy, JWST, etc.).

Objectives of the group: We aim for this group to be a network for transiting and radial-velocity exoplanetary science at STScI in order to both foster collaboration and coordination within the Institute’s efforts, but also being a window to the different efforts astronomers at STScI are leading with their own external collaborations. 

Who can join the group? Anyone within the STScI and JHU communities — including direct collaborators at the Institute.

Context within STScI Priorities: This group also promotes strategic thinking about RV/transit exoplanet science as a response to the Decadal, and in support of current and future flagship missions.

Research Topics:

  • Transiting exoplanet discovery
  • Exoplanet atmospheres
  • Radial-velocity surveys
  • Planet formation
  • Instrumentation

Activities

Internal (more details here):

  • Monthly T-Rex group meeting: TBD
  • Yearly Science Jamboree: Late Summer, exact date TBD

External:

  • Exoplanets, Star & Planet Formation (ESPF) Seminar Series: Mondays at 3 pm (website and schedule)
  • Exocoffee journal club: every other Monday at 9 am (website)

Depending on quorum:

  • Space Telescope Proposal Sprint: Every week in the month leading to the proposal deadline (usually March for HST; exact dates TBD; tentatively December for JWST Cycle 2)
  • Ground-based Telescope Proposal Fall Sprint: Every week in the month leading to the proposal deadline (usually September for most facilities)

Policies

  • We abide by the AAS code of ethics.
  • Ideas and work shared and/or discussed in T-Rex group activities and/or between members should be understood as proprietary of the person sharing them (unless credited to someone else). Any invitation to be part of that idea and/or work must be explicit and not be understood as arising simply for engaging in discussions on them.
  • Collaboration (if any, including: proposals, papers, conferences, funding) within the group thus is not automatic, and needs explicit agreement between members.
  • On “ideas”: group should be a hub for ideas, but proper credit must be given when used outside of the group (acknowledgments, co-authorship on proposals, papers, conferences, etc.).
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