Winter Conference

Exoplanet Systems and Stellar Life Cycles: Late-Stage and Post-MS Systems

March 19–24, 2023

Conference Website

Organizers:

Elisabeth Adams, Planetary Science Institute
Brian Jackson, Boise State University
*Melinda Soares-Furtado, University of Wisconsin Madison
Andrew Vanderburg, MIT

The growing population of exoplanets and the expanding repertoire of instruments and analysis techniques have moved the astrophysical domain of exoplanets from an era of individual system discoveries to a golden age of population-level scientific advances. With new and expected instruments and methods, we can examine the entire life cycles of planets and planetary systems. This Aspen Winter Conference will bring together leading scientific experts to explore the relationship between exoplanet demographics, stellar evolution, and stellar dynamics. The conference will focus on late-stage exoplanetary systems, including evolved stars and white dwarf hosts. Conference attendees will address and summarize what these relationships reveal about the underlying processes of the formation and evolution of planetary systems.

In this one-week, interdisciplinary workshop, we will bring together experts in time-domain astronomy, dynamics, stellar evolution, stellar rotation, asteroseismology, and planetary science to address two major open questions related to late-stage exoplanetary systems

  • What can we learn about planet formation and evolution from the demographics of exoplanets orbiting post-main-sequence stars?
  • What can we learn about the chemical history and bulk planetary composition from accretion signatures and post-MS planetary ingestion investigations?

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*organizer responsible for participant diversity