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Tue 10:00
17 Feb 2026 |
Gaia for Star and Planet Formation Studies |
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Miguel Vioque | ESO | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Thu 15:00
19 Feb 2026 |
Cryoclastic flows on Mars |
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Lonneke Roelofs | Universiteit Utrecht | SCI |
ESTEC Ba030 |
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Mon 10:00
23 Feb 2026 |
TBA |
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Anna Bauernfeind | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Tue 10:00
24 Feb 2026 |
Introduction to and Science highlights from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer |
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Kavitha Arur | UMBC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db162 |
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Thu 15:00
26 Feb 2026 |
Science enabled by Einstein Probe's fast X-ray transients |
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Peter Jonker | Radboud University | SCI |
ESTEC Ca005 |
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Tue 10:00
03 Mar 2026 |
Why do we do astrophysics? |
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Victoria Grinberg | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Thu 15:00
05 Mar 2026 |
From the lab to the skies: Exploring volatile processes in water and methane on the Moon, Mars and beyond | John Moores | York University Canada | SCI |
ESTEC Erasmus auditorium |
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Tue 10:00
10 Mar 2026 |
TBA | Niek Bollemeijer | University of Amsterdam | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Thu 15:00
12 Mar 2026 |
Asteroid observations and planetary defence | Agata Rozek | University of Edinburgh | SCI |
ESAC |
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Tue 10:00
17 Mar 2026 |
TBA | Michaela Benthaus | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Thu 15:00
19 Mar 2026 |
Harnessing Machine Learning to Probe the High-Energy Sky: From Data to Discoveries | Daniela Huppenkothen | UvA Amsterdam | SCI |
ESTEC Af205 |
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Thu 15:00
26 Mar 2026 |
Uncovering the interiors of small exoplanets by combining models and observations | Jo Ann Egger | ESTEC | SCI |
ESTEC Ef008 |
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Tue 10:00
14 Apr 2026 |
Clicking for science during the COVID-19 period |
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Erik Kuulkers | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Thu 15:00
16 Apr 2026 |
TBA | Simone Silvestro | INAF Napoli | SCI |
ESTEC Af205 |
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Thu 15:00
23 Apr 2026 |
3I/ATLAS and his observations | Emmanuel Jehin | Université de Liège | SCI |
ESTEC Einstein |
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Thu 15:00
22 Dec 2022 |
Artemis: The Human Return to the Moon (Special Christmas Seminar) |
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Martin Born | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
06 Dec 2022 |
Solar energetic protons and radiation dose experienced by flight crews: example of an operational space weather service driven by science | Sophie Musset | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
22 Nov 2022 |
X-ray spectroscopy: from lab experiments to interstellar dust models | Sascha Zeegers | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
17 Nov 2022 |
Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris impacts on materials returned from space |
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Anton Kearsley | Natural History Museum, London, UK | SCI |
ESTEC Ba030 |
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Tue 09:45
15 Nov 2022 |
The geologic mapping of Oxia Planum, Mars | Csilla Orgel | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
10 Nov 2022 |
Stellar environments of (exo)planetary atmospheres |
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Sudeshna Boro Saikia | University of Vienna, Austria | SCI |
ESTEC Ba030 |
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Tue 09:45
08 Nov 2022 |
Solar Orbiter’s STIX: New insight into particle acceleration in Solar Flares | Hannah Collier | ETH Zurich | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
03 Nov 2022 |
The Euclid mission: goals, status and forecast |
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Guadalupe Cañas | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands | SCI |
ESTEC Ba030 |
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Tue 09:45
01 Nov 2022 |
Growing up: from KiDS to Euclid | Henk Hoekstra | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
27 Oct 2022 |
Classification of variability signals using ML algorithms |
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Jozef Magdolen | Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia | SCI |
ESAC B5 |
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Tue 09:45
25 Oct 2022 |
New method to rapidly diagnose the large-scale stellar magnetic field | Lisa T. Lehmann | Université de Toulouse | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
18 Oct 2022 |
3-D reconstruction of planetary surface using shading algorithm on the example of BepiColombo MCAM images | Kay Wohlfahrt | TU Dortmund | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
11 Oct 2022 |
Structural analysis of the faults and pit chains network in Noctis Labyrinthus, based on data derived from HRSC and MOLA. | Mayssa El Yazidi | University of Padova | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
06 Oct 2022 |
The SALT Be X-Ray Binary Monitoring Programme |
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Lee Townsend | South African Astronomical Observatory, South Africa | SCI |
ESAC B5 |
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Tue 09:45
04 Oct 2022 |
The Gaia mission, Gaia DR3, and science highlights | Anthony Brown | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
29 Sep 2022 |
Characterisation of Hayabusa2 returned samples by the MicrOmega instrument within the ISAS curation facility |
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Lucie Riu | ESA/ESAC, Madrid, Spain | SCI |
ESAC D2 |
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Tue 09:45
27 Sep 2022 |
Vela X-1 long-term monitoring study using MAXI | Luis Abalo Rodríguez | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
22 Sep 2022 |
Ages for old low-mass K/M dwarfs with gyrochronology and spectroscopy |
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Lucy Lu | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA | SCI |
ESTEC Ba030 |
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Tue 09:45
13 Sep 2022 |
Characterising the Red Clump standard candle in Gaia magnitude, colour, metallicity and alpha abundance | Oliver Hall | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
13 Sep 2022 |
Charting planet formation with ALMA and MATISSE | Michiel Hogerheijde | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
08 Sep 2022 |
How to maximize the scientific return of sample return missions, or the vital role of curation |
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Aurore Hutzler | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Thu 15:00
21 Jul 2022 |
Cassini at Saturn: brief overview with emphasis on the moons |
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Tilmann Denk | DLR Berlin, Germany | SCI |
ESAC B3 |
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Tue 09:45
12 Jul 2022 |
Mining useful information from the Gaia Archive | Michal Ďurovič | University of Technology Prague | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
07 Jul 2022 |
Creating a large interacting galaxy dataset with the ESA Hubble Archive, galaxy zoo labels and deep learning |
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David O'Ryan | University of Lancaster, UK | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
05 Jul 2022 |
Master thesis presentations | Leiden Master students | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
30 Jun 2022 |
Measuring and interpreting bidirectional reflectance distribution functions for the lunar regolith |
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Rowan Curtis | Oxford University, UK | SCI |
ESAC B5 |
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Tue 09:45
28 Jun 2022 |
Why do clusters (and groups) of galaxies shine in X-rays? | Francois Mernier | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 17:00
23 Jun 2022 |
Zooming in on Bright Exoplanetary Systems with the CHaracterizing ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) | Monika Lendl | University of Geneva | ESA@STScI |
STScI |
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Tue 10:30
21 Jun 2022 |
How to find isolated black holes with Gaia? |
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Łukasz Wyrzykowski | Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw, Poland | SCI |
ESAC B5 |
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Tue 09:45
21 Jun 2022 |
A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2 | Ryan Cooper | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
16 Jun 2022 |
Obscured Star Formation at z~7 Observed with the REBELS ALMA Large Program |
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Hanae Inami | Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Centre, Japan | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
14 Jun 2022 |
Art-Space Exchange: Moving trough a patchwork of spectral observations | Anna Hoetjes | ESA Art-Space Exchange | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
07 Jun 2022 |
The chemical and thermal structure of the atmosphere of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5813 | Dimitris Chatzigiannakis | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
02 Jun 2022 |
Imaging the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre with the EHT |
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José Luis Gómez | Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC, Granada, Spain | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
31 May 2022 |
Hunting solar jets | Paloma Jol | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
26 May 2022 |
Distributed peer review enhanced with machine learning |
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Wolfgang Kerzendorf | Michigan State University, USA | SCI |
ESAC B5 |
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Tue 09:45
24 May 2022 |
Discovering space through the 5 senses | Ines Belgacem | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
19 May 2022 |
Spectroscopy and solar-stellar activity monitoring with the robotic 1.2m telescope TIGRE in Guanajuato |
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Klaus-Peter Schröder | Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
17 May 2022 |
Bursts and bombs in the solar atmosphere | Chris Nelson | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
12 May 2022 |
A new vision of the Martian atmosphere and climate thanks to Mars Express and the Trace Gas Orbiter |
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Franck Montmessin | LATMOS/IPSL, Guyancourt, France | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
10 May 2022 |
Magnetic holes in the solar wind observed with the Cluster satellites | Henriette Trollvik | Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
03 May 2022 |
Observing planet formation in action | Nienke van der Marel | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
28 Apr 2022 |
TESS's Jovian Legacy |
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Chelsea X. Huang | University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Mon 09:45
25 Apr 2022 |
Identifying globular clusters with machine learning | Katja Fahrion, Dominik Dold | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
21 Apr 2022 |
Early Galaxy Formation and its Large-Scale Effects |
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Pratika Dayal | Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
19 Apr 2022 |
Solar radio bursts: what do they tell us? | Sophie Musset | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
12 Apr 2022 |
How does the solar wind squashes your planet? - Applications to Mercury and BepiColombo | Federico Lavorenti | University of Pisa | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
07 Apr 2022 |
Habitable Worlds(?) and Stellar Flares |
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Maximilian Günther | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
05 Apr 2022 |
New Close-up Views of Old Distant Galaxies | Mariska Kriek | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
29 Mar 2022 |
Investigating the X-ray properties of highly accreting AGN | Marco Laurenti | Italian Space Agency | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
24 Mar 2022 |
Planets are Places: Characterization of Other Worlds in the 2020s and Beyond |
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Laura Kreidberg | Max Planck Insitute for Astronomy, Atmospheric Physics of Exoplanets (APEx) Department, Heidelberg, Germany | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
22 Mar 2022 |
The thrill of space exploration - Application to the MicrOmega instrument for the characterisation of C-type Asteroid Ryugu | Lucie Riu | ESA-ESAC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
17 Mar 2022 |
Modelling of Jovian low frequency radio source occultations and application to the scientific segmentation of the JUICE mission |
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Baptiste Cecconi | LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Thu 15:00
10 Mar 2022 |
Prospects in Solar Physics for the Next Decade: a Multi-messenger Era |
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Valentín Martínez Pillet | National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO, USA | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
08 Mar 2022 |
Detecting stellar accelerations at intermediate separations from Sgr A* | Alice Young | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
03 Mar 2022 |
The Global Dynamical Atlas of the Milky Way mergers: Processing the ESA/Gaia dataset using state-of-the-art algorithms |
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Khyati Malhan | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
01 Mar 2022 |
The Astrophysical Lunar Observatory | Jan Tauber | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
24 Feb 2022 |
Prospects for polarimetry, exozodiacal, and debris disk observations with the Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument |
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John Debes | Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
22 Feb 2022 |
Solar flare affects on the Earth's Lower Ionosphere | Laura Hayes | ESA-ESAC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
17 Feb 2022 |
LAMOST meets Gaia: the Galactic Open Clusters |
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Xiaoting Fu | Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
15 Feb 2022 |
Tick-Tock: The Imminent Merger of a Supermassive Black Hole Binary (from Jiang et al. 2022) | Oliver Jennrich | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
15 Feb 2022 |
X-ray observations of the recurrent nova RS Oph | Jan-Uwe Ness | ESA-ESAC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
10 Feb 2022 |
Tidal deformation and tidal decay of WASP-103b |
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Susana Barros | Universidade do Porto, Portugal | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
08 Feb 2022 |
How does metallicity affect the activity of low-mass stars? | Victor See | EAS-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
03 Feb 2022 |
Flares and Prebiotic Chemistry for Rocky Planets orbiting Ultracool Stars |
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Paul Rimmer | University of Cambridge, UK | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
01 Feb 2022 |
Our Big History and the High-Redshift Universe | Ryan Cooper | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
27 Jan 2022 |
Revealing the Star Formation History of the Solar Neighborhood: Supernova-Driven Star Formation on the Surface of the Local Bubble |
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Catherine Zucker | Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:45
25 Jan 2022 |
Solar Orbiter — Here comes the Sun | Daniel Müller | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Thu 15:00
20 Jan 2022 |
Deciphering the formation of nuclear star clusters |
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Katja Fahrion | ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 09:00
18 Jan 2022 |
Changing Look AGN, or, Delivery accretion disks from the phantom of thermal time-scales | Matteo Guainazzi | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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Tue 09:45
11 Jan 2022 |
Basaltic lava flows on the lunar far side | Ines Torres | ESA-ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC |
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