HWO Meetings

Splinter Session at 243rd American Astronomical Society Conference, January 2024

The Habitable Worlds Observatory splinter session took place on January 10 in New Orleans, LA, during the 2024 winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Conference participants were invited to attend and a virtual link was provided for those who could not be present at the meeting in person.

Introduction

ROSES Precursor Science Program Lightning Talks

HWO Technology: Roadmap Teams & Industry Studies

Closing Remarks

A photo of the START and TAG teams and other staff at the 2024 winter AAS meeting. The team is posing in two rows and standing in front of a sign that says "Habitable Worlds Observatory."

The START/TAG teams and other staff at the 243rd AAS meeting.

Below are the various talks from the meeting, with the talk titles linked to PDF files containing the slides used, and with the recording labels linked to a recording of the meeting.

Talk title (Links to slide PDF)	Speaker	Watch
Welcome & HQ Update	Megan Ansdell (NASA HQ)	0:00
The Story of Life in the Universe	John O'Meara (Keck Observatories)	07:35
Introduction to the HWO Working Groups	Courtney Dressing (UC Berkeley) & John Ziemer (NASA JPL)	17:40

ROSES Precursor Science Program Lightning Talks

Talk title (Links to slide PDF)	Speaker	Watch
Introduction	Megan Ansdell (NASA HQ)	1:02:51
A Pathway to Planet Properties	Caleb Harada (UC Berkeley)	1:03:06
Defining Science Requirements for Galaxy Formation and Evolution Across the UV and X-ray Wavebands with Synthetic Observations	John ZuHone (CfA)	1:06:09
Obtaining Better Constraints on Eta-Earth By Reprocessing Kepler Data to Generate a More Complete and Reliable Exoplanet Catalog	Steve Bryson (NASA Ames)	1:09:14
Securing revolutionary exozodi research with VLTI/NOTT	Bill Danchi (NASA Goddard)	1:11:25
Quantifying Spectroscopic Performance Requirements for Detecting Biosignatures with a Habitable Worlds Observatory	Vincent Kofman (American University)	1:14:26
Stellar X-ray and Ultraviolet characterization of the Habitable Worlds Observatory habitable planet target sample	David Wilson (Univ. of Colorado - Boulder)	1:15:52
Open Source Tools for Mapping Exoplanet Science Goals to Architecture Properties of the IR/O/UV Great Observatory	Armen Tokadjian (Cornell Univ.)	1:17:50

HWO Technology: Roadmap Teams & Industry Studies

Talk title (Links to slide PDF)	Speaker	Watch
UltraStable Observatory Roadmap Team: USORT	Lee Feinberg (NASA Goddard)	1:21:25
Coronagraph Technology Roadmap Working Groups	Nick Siegler (NASA JPL)	1:28:30
TechMAST: Technology Maturation for Astrophysics Space Telescopes	Alison Nordt (Northrop Grumman)	1:37:22
ULTRA: Ultrastable Large Telescope Research and Analysis	Tyler McCracken (Ball Aerospace)	1:44:17

Closing Remarks	Joshua Pepper (NASA HQ)	2:00:50

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