Cosmic Rays in the Heliospheric Plasma Environment

527. Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Seminar

Plasma and Radiation Environment in Astrospheres and
Implications for the Habitability of Extrasolar Planets

10 - 15 March 2013, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany

Schedule and Abstracts


Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Astrospheres

Stellarspheres

Magnetospheres

Planetospheres

Biospheres

08:30-8:45

E. Dreisigacker:
Introduction

F. Spada:
Modelling low mass, solar-like stars with magnetic fields: impact on their fundamental properties and their circumstellar habitable zones

A. Kopp:
Magnetosphere models

K. Herbst/B. Heber:
Cosmic ray interaction with the atmosphere

H. Rauer:
Exoplanets

08:45-09:00

D. Breitschwerdt:
Local galactic turbulence

09:00-09:15

09:15-09:30

C. Vocks:
Searching for radio signatures of stellar mass ejections with LOFAR

M.L. Khodachenko:
Magnetospheres of hot Jupiters

J.M. Wissing:
Energetic particles and how their precipitaion is affected by the magnetosphere

B. Patzer:
Atmospheric biosignatures

09:30-09:45

S. Redfield:
Properties of the Interstellar Medium Surrounding the Sun and Nearby Stars

09:45-10:00

F. Breitling
Study of electron propagation in the corona with LOFAR

E. Scharrenberg
Measurements With a Phoswich Detector on a Stratospheric Balloon

J. Cabrera
Searching for transiting planets around very low-mass stars observed by Kepler

Ch. Helling
Ionisation of ultra-cool, cloud-forming atmospheres

10:00-10:15

K. Weis:
Circumstellar nebulae around massive stars

I. Juvan:
Light curve modeling and analysis concerning star-planet interactions

J. Guo
Reconstruction of particle fluxes detected by the Radiation Assessment Detector onboard MSL

R. Stark:
The influence of Alfvén Ionisation on exoplanetary atmospheres

P. von Paris:
Retrieval of atmospheric properties of terrestrial exoplanets through spectroscopic characterization

10:15-10:30

A. Becker:
Interstellar Bubbles in the Magellanic Clouds

Discussion

10:30-10:45

Discussion

Coffee Break

10:45-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:15

M. Potgieter:
Transport of galactic cosmic rays

A. Warmuth:
Constraining stellar eruptive events with scaling laws derived from the solar analogon

J.-M. Griessmeier:
Galactic cosmic rays in the magnetospheres

L. Grenfell:
Atmospheric chemistry models

P. Rettberg:
Astrobiology - the origin and evolution of life on Earth

11:15-11:30

11:30-11:45

11:45-12:00

H. Fichtner:
Transport of cosmic rays in the vicinity of astrospheres

J. Kleimann:
4 π models of CMEs and ICMEs

U. Ott:
Long-term variability of cosmic rays from meteorite observations

M. Sinnhuber:
Solar particle precipitation into Earth’s atmosphere

R. Möller:
Astrobiology - Searching for life in the solar system

12:00-12:15

12:15-12:30

F. Effenberger:
The spatial variability of galactic cosmic ray protons due to anisotropic diffusion

A. Vogt;
Modelling the Influence of CIRs on Low Energetic Electrons

Y. Kartavykh:
Transport of stellar energetic particles through planetary magnetospheres

Seminar summary

12:30-13:00

Discussion and student questions

13:00-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-14:15

J. Tjus/M. Mandelartz:
Galactic Cosmic ray sources

W. Dröge:
Transport of stellar particles

Free afternoon

H. Nieder:
Studies of NOx production rates in the MLT region using an ion chemistry model

end

14:15-14:30

P. Hartogh:
Terrestial planet atmospheres

14:30-14:45

K. Scherer:
Astrosphere models

14:45-15:00

J. Le Roux:
Acceleration of Stellar Energetic Particles by Interplanetary Traveling Shocks

K. Kislyakova:
Charaterisation of of exoplanet environments via stellar wind - upper atmosphere interaction modelling

15:00-15:15

F. Tabataba-Vakili:
Modelling the Influence of Cosmic Rays on the Atmospheric Chemistry of Earth-like Planets

15:15-15:30

D. Bomans:
Bow-shock nebulae of run-away stars

P. Kühl:
Simultaneous analysis of recurrent Jovian electron increases and galactic cosmic ray decreases

H. Lammer:
Origin and evolution of planetary atmospheres: Imp[act on habitability

15:30-15:45

F. Schuppan:
Cosmic ray induced ionization

K. Herbst
The Local Interstellar Spectrum Beyond the Heliopause: What can we Learn from Voyager in the Inner Heliosheath?

15:45-16:00

Discussion

Discussion

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

16:30-16:45

B. Wood:
Lyman-α observations of astrospheres

R. Wimmer:
Radiation measurments on Mars with MSL/RAD

P. Wurz:
Exo-planetary energetic neutral atoms

16:45-17:00

17:00-17:30

S. Ferreira:
Propagation of CRs in astrospheres

S. Dalla:
Cross field transport of solar energetic particles

A. Galli:
Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging of the Heliosphere

17:30-17:45

Discussion and student questions

17:45-18:00

D. Strauss:
Cosmic ray transport in the heliosheath and beyond

M. Schulreich:
Investigating the link between an iron-60 anomaly in the deep ocean's crust and the origin of the Local Bubble

18:00-18:15

L. Kaltenegger:
Characterizing habitable Exo-Planets

Discussion and student questions

18:15-18:30

Poster session

18:30-18:45

Discussion and student questions

Poster session

Conference Diner

18:45-19:00

19:00

Dinner

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