Publications (7)
The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context with Spitzer
Michael R. Meyer, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Dana Backman +32
We provide an overview of the Spitzer Legacy Program ``Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems" (FEPS) which was proposed in 2000, begun in 2001, and executed aboard the Spitz…
Reconstructing Extreme Space Weather from Planet Hosting Stars
V. S. Airapetian, V. Adibekyan, M. Ansdell +80
The field of exoplanetary science is making rapid progress both in statistical studies of exoplanet properties as well as in individual characterization. As space missions provide…
Coronal Mass Ejections As a Mechanism for Producing IR Variability in Debris Disks
Rachel Osten, Mario Livio, Steven Lubow +3
Motivated by recent observations of short-timescale variations in the infrared emission of circumstellar disks, we propose that coronal mass ejections can remove dust grains on tim…
Stellar Activity in the Broad-Band Ultraviolet
Krzysztof Findeisen, Lynne Hillenbrand, David Soderblom
The completion of the GALEX All-Sky Survey in the ultraviolet allows activity measurements to be acquired for many more stars than is possible with the limited sensitivity of ROSAT…
Stellar Age Estimation from ~3 Myr to ~3 Gyr
Lynne Hillenbrand, Eric Mamajek, John Stauffer +3
We present recent progress on quantitative estimation of stellar ages using ind icators such as theoretical evolutionary tracks, rotation, rotation-driven chrom ospheric and corona…
The Hubble Advanced Spectral Product (HASP) Program
John Debes, Ravi Sankrit, Travis Fischer +39
The Hubble Advanced Spectral Products (HASP) program is designed to robustly coadd Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) spectra within…
Astro2020 Science White Paper: Stellar Physics and Galactic Archeology using Asteroseismology in the 2020's
Daniel Huber, Sarbani Basu, Paul Beck +32
Asteroseismology is the only observational tool in astronomy that can probe the interiors of stars, and is a benchmark method for deriving fundamental properties of stars and exopl…