Keck Science Meeting: Friday, September 23-24, 2011
Meeting Location: Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (Caltech)
1216 California Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91106
Phone: (626) 395-4003 (Anna Marie Hetman)
Caltech is proud to be hosting this year's annual meeting of the Keck Observatory user community. The meeting will include two full days of both oral and poster presentations from the scientific partners of the Keck Observatory, including Caltech, UC, UH, NASA, TSIP, Yale, Swinburne and WMKO. Participants of the meeting will share recent and interesting results based on observations conducted with the Keck I and Keck II telescopes on Mauna Kea.
The meeting will also provide a venue to informally discuss the current state of the Keck Observatory and its future. This will include planning for new initiatives and considering next generation instrumentation.
The science meeting will take place on both days this year, a full day on September 23 and a half day on September 24, consisting of short science talks and posters. Talks will be selected from the abstracts submitted (due date August 5, 2011). Anyone may present a poster, but must provide notification of intent by August 5 to ensure that enough display room is available.
Organizing Committee Chair: John Johnson, Caltech
Administrative Contact: Anna Marie Hetman, Caltech
TALKS
- There will be a single serial oral session.
- Talks will be 15 or 20 minutes. Please allow 3 minutes for questions.
- A computer projector will be available. Please notify meeting organizers if you have other AV needs so they can be arranged in advance. If you will not be bringing your own laptop for your presentation but would like to borrow one, please let us know in advance so one can be provided for you.
- A tentative schedule of talks is posted below.
POSTERS
- Poster boards accommodating 38" x 48" (W x H) posters will be available; backing material is cork-board-type and we can provide tacks.
- Posters will be up all day with viewing opportunities during breaks.
- Handouts are often a useful way of preserving memory of your poster.
- Poster presenters may volunteer to give a "one slide, one minute, no-questions" (strictly enforced) summary of their poster paper during the oral session.
TALK SCHEDULE
** We received 77 abstracts from the community, with only 37 talk slots available. The SOC placed a strong emphasis on selecting abstracts covering a wide of subjects, Keck instruments and speakers from a wide range of Keck institutions, including those using time allocated through NASA and NOAO. Abstracts not selected for an oral presentation will be assigned a poster presentation.
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FRIDAY |
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Time |
Name |
Institution |
Title |
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8:00-8:45 |
Taft
Armandroff |
W.M. Keck Observatory |
State of the W. M. Keck Observatory |
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8:45-9:00 |
Sylvana Yelda |
UCLA |
Direct Orbital Parameter Estimates of the Young Stellar Disk in
the Galactic Center |
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9:00-9:15 |
Roger
L. Griffith |
IPAC |
WISE discovery of low-metallicity Blue
Compact Dwarf Galaxies |
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9:15-9:30 |
Quinn
Konopacky |
LLNL |
Keck AO Follow-up of the HR 8799 Planetary System: Orbits and Atmospheres |
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9:30-10:00 |
Coffee/Posters |
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10:00-10:15 |
Matthew
Schenker |
Caltech |
Keck Spectroscopy of Faint $3 < z < 8$ Lyman Break
Galaxies:- Evidence for a Declining Fraction of Emission Line Sources In the
Redshift Range 6 < z < 8 |
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10:15-10:30 |
Mark
Morris |
UCLA |
AO Observations of High-Velocity Gas Flows near Sagittarius A* |
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10:30-10:45 |
Marc
Rafelski |
UCSD / IPAC |
Metallicity
Evolution of Damped Ly-alpha Systems out to z~5 |
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10:45-11:00 |
Keivan Stassun |
Vanderbilt University |
Keck HIRES Observations of the Young Eclipsing Substellar Binary 2M0535-05 During Eclipse: Evidence for
Magnetic-Field-Induced Surface Temperature Suppression in the Active Primary |
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11:00-11:15 |
Josh
Meyers |
LBNL / UC Berkeley |
Early type hosts of SNe Ia: C, N, Mg, Ca, and Fe
abundances, and evidence of recent star formation |
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11:15-11:30 |
Jeff
Cooke |
Swinburne University of Technology |
Ultraviolet-Luminous Supernova Detections at z > 2 and Their
Host Galaxies |
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11:30-11:45 |
James
Rhoads |
Arizona State University |
Rest Optical Emission Lines of Lyman-alpha Selected Galaxies:
Implications for Stellar Populations and Dynamical Masses |
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11:45-12:00 |
Ian
Crossfield |
UCLA |
High Resolution, Differential, Near-infrared Transmission Spectroscopy
of GJ 1214b |
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12:00-12:15 |
30-second Poster Previews |
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12:15-1:30 |
Lunch (Catered in Cahill) |
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1:30-2:00 |
Tomonori
Usuda |
Subaru Telescope |
Status and Future view of Subaru Telescope |
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2:00-2:15 |
Gwen
Rudie |
Caltech |
Mapping the circumgalactic medium of
high-redshift galaxies in neutral hydrogen |
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2:15-2:30 |
Katherine
Kornei |
UCLA |
The Prevalence and Properties of Outflowing Winds at z = 1 |
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2:30-2:45 |
Chad
Bender |
Penn State |
Direct Spectroscopic Characterization of Hot Exoplanet
Atmospheres |
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2:45-3:00 |
Brian
Siana |
UC Riverside |
Understanding the Ultra-Faint Galaxies that Dominated Early
Star-Formation |
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3:00-3:15 |
Coffee/Posters |
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3:15-3:30 |
Brendan
Bowler |
University of Hawaii |
Clues About Gas Giant Planet Formation From Spectroscopy of a
Wide Planetary-Mass Companion |
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3:30-3:45 |
Gregory
D. Wirth |
WMKO |
A DEIMOS Study of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies in Five
Distant, Rich Clusters |
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3:45-4:00 |
Erik
Tollerud |
University of California Irvine |
Kinematics of M31 dSphs from the
SPLASH Survey |
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4:00-4:15 |
Emily
Wisnioski |
Swinburne University of Technology |
Massive Turbulent Disks from the WiggleZ
Survey at z>1 |
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4:15-4:30 |
David
Jewitt |
UCLA Depts Earth & Space and
Physics & Astronomy |
Asteroid Ice |
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4:30:4:45 |
Ben
Zuckerman |
UCLA |
A Zoo of Extrasolar Planet(esimal) Compositions Derived From Externally-Polluted
White Dwarfs |
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4:45:5:00 |
Andrew
Newman |
Caltech |
The Dark Matter Profile of A383 Derived from Lensing, X-ray, and
Stellar Kinematic Data |
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5:00-5:15 |
Daniel
Perley |
Caltech / UC Berkeley |
Keck Observations of 150 GRB Host Galaxies |
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SATURDAY |
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Time |
Name |
Institution |
Title |
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8:30-8:45 |
Adam
L. Kraus |
Univ. of Hawaii - IfA |
The Fundamental Properties of Pre-Main Sequence Stars |
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8:45-9:00 |
Adam
Burgasser |
UCSD |
Hidden Gems: Resolved and Unresolved Brown Dwarf Spectral
Binaries |
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9:00-9:15 |
Sebastian
Hoenig |
UCSB |
Resolving the AGN dust torus with the Keck Interferometer |
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9:15-9:30 |
Steven
Finkelstein |
Texas A&M University |
Probing Chemical Evolution at High Redshift: The Metallicities of Lyman-Alpha Selected Galaxies |
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9:30-10:00 |
Yuko
Kakazu |
Caltech |
Chemical properties of galaxies at 3 < z < 6 in the COSMOS
field |
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10:00-10:15 |
Alison
Coil |
UCSD |
Outflowing Winds in Post-starburst and AGN Host Galaxies |
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10:15-10:30 |
Coffee/Posters |
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10:30-10:45 |
Kevin
Hainline |
University of California, Los Angeles |
The Host Galaxies of UV-Selected AGNs at z~2-3 |
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10:45-11:00 |
Sasha
Hinkley |
Caltech |
Exploring the Planet/Disk Connection with Keck Aperture Masking
Interferometry |
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11:00-11:15 |
Crystal
Martin |
UCSB |
Gas Outflow And Inflow In Redshift 0.7 < z < 2 Galaxies |
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11:15-11:30 |
Russel White |
Georgia State University |
The Keck Young Planet Search |
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11:30-11:45 |
Scott
Dahm |
W. M. Keck Observatory |
Evidence for a Correlation Between Circumstellar
Disks and Rotation in the Upper Scorpius OB
Association |
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11:45-12:00 |
Debra
Fischer |
Yale University |
A Search for Planets orbiting M-to-K dwarfs |
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12:00-12:15 |
Vivian
U |
Hawaii-IfA / CfA |
Energetics in the Nuclei of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies |
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12:15-12:30 |
Ryan
Foley |
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
The Asymmetric Explosion of Cas A |