Workshop on Planetary Science with CMB + Optical/IR Surveys

April 4-5, 2019 / University of Pennsylvania / Philadelphia



Program


Talk slides are now available here

Thursday:
Exo-Oort clouds and debris disks

9-9:20am: Introductions
9:20-10:30am:  Talks:
Renu Malhotra: Theoretical aspects of the outer solar system
Cullen Blake: The Imprint of our Oort Cloud on the CMB spectrum
Eric Baxter: The Imprint of exo-Oort Clouds on CMB maps
10:30-11am: Coffee
11am-noon: Discussion:
What are the open questions in theory? Oort clouds, debris disks, and Planet 9
noon-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30-2:30pm: Talks:
Bryan Holler: Planetary Science with WFIRST
Gary Bernstein: Prospects with Euclid
Matt Lehner: How to detect Oort Cloud objects via Occultation
2:30-3pm: Discussion:
What do (exo-)Oort clouds teach us about planetary architecture?
3-3:30pm: Coffee
3:30-4pm: Talks:
Tyler Natoli: South Pole Telescope and transient searches
Sigurd Næss: Prospects for detecting Planet 9 with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
4-5pm: Discussion:
Exo-Oort clouds with planned sub-mm surveys and survey strategies.

Friday:
Planet 9/X and outer solar system bodies

9-10:30am:    Talks:
Gil Holder: Outer and inner solar system bodies and sub-mm surveys
Mario Juric: KBO/asteroid searches
Carey Lisse: Planetary Science with the SPHEREx
10:30-11am: Coffee
11am-noon: Discussion:
Recent developments in Planet 9/X searches.
noon-1:30pm:   Lunch
1:30-2:30pm: Talks:
Scott Tremaine: An Overview of the Theory Behind the Formation of the Oort cloud and Planet X
Scott Tremaine: What we know about Oumuamua
2:30-3:30pm: Discussion:
Optimizing joint surveys with CMB (SO, S4) and LSST
3:30-4pm: Coffee
4-4:30pm: Talks:
Pedro Bernardinelli/Gary Bernstein: TNO searches with DES
4:30-5pm: Discussion:
Wrap-up.