AAS Splinter Session - Seattle, Washington
High Angular Resolution View of Stars
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Washington State Convention Center, Room 304
Resolving the surfaces of stars at high spatial resolution provides unique ways to study stellar structure and evolution. This includes measuring stellar radii across a wide range of masses and evolutionary stages, imaging stellar surfaces to study the distribution of starspots and patterns of convection, resolving close binary companions, and studying circumstellar environments. This AAS splinter session will discuss recent science results obtained at milli-arcsecond resolution, opportunities for community access time at long-baseline optical/infrared interferometers, and upcoming advances in the field.
| Time | Speaker | Presentation |
| 10:00 | Tabetha Boyajian | Stellar Diameters and Characterizing Exoplanet Hosts |
| 10:15 | Rachael Roettenbacher | Imaging Starspots on Magnetically Active Stars |
| 10:30 | Ryan Norris | Studying Convection in Supergiants |
| 10:45 | Theo ten Brummelaar | Community Access Time at the CHARA Array |
| 11:00 | Gerard van Belle | Upgrades at the Navy Precision Optical Intereferometer |
| 11:15 | Michelle Creech-Eakman | Future Outlook on the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer |
Organizer: Gail Schaefer
Download the splinter session poster (pdf)