Planetary Science and Astrophysics

27 Jul 2022, 13:00 → 31 Jul 2022, 14:30 Asia/Bangkok

Yi Peng 1, Floor 2 (MELIÁ HOTEL INTERNATIONAL)

Introduction

Scientific researches in various aspect relating to Planetary Science and Astrophysics is very close to human activities on earth. This research field is very practical, while its diversity is expected. The main objective of the workshop is to bring together different groups working in this field of research. We plan to bring together scientists from different research fields, including Astrophysics, Planetary science and Atmospheric communities, to discuss the common approaches to the problem and to establish new collaborations.

 

Goals 

The primary goal of the workshop is to exchange ideas, to establish cooperation links and to develop a joint strategic working plan for basic problems and projects of Exoplanet, Atmospheric Physics, Ionospheric Physics, and Aurora. The workshop specially aims at stimulating scientific discussions and collaborations between the different groups. The number of participants is limited to 40–50. The meeting will consist of oral presentations by invited lecturers and actual presentation of various hands-on activities. The majority of the time will be devoted to the actual workshop, stimulating the participants to work together in small groups on specific topics. Participants are encouraged to focus on the projects relating to their research interests. There will be no registration fee.

 

Target Audiences

High school teachers, 3rd-4th year undergraduate students, and early-year graduate student who are either already working or interested in the related fields of Planetary Science and Astrophysics and computational techniques. Due to the practical nature of the workshop and limited funding, the number of participants will be limited to 40-50 persons. The successful applicants will be notified of the organizer decisions approximately one week after the registration deadline.

Hands-on Preparation Guideline.pdf

poster.pdf

Wednesday, 27 July

14:00 → 14:30 Registration

14:30 → 15:00 Break

15:00 → 16:30 Opening Remark

18:00 → 19:00 Welcome Dinner

Thursday, 28 July

09:30 → 10:30 Session 1: Exoplanet atmospheric study using the transmission spectroscopy technique

This session is completed.

The YouTube video record for Session 1 is now ready. Please follow the link below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOpdluKdkPc and click "cc" If you need the transcript.

Exoplanets_From detection to characterisation.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:00 Session 2: Spectroscopy and Photometry of Exoplanet Atmospheres Research NETwork (SPEARNET)

This session is completed. Please find YouTube video record at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98TEJ6vJxE4.

Transits and Exoplanet atmospheres.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:30 Session 1 Hands-on Activities: TESS transit light curve

This Session is completed. Please find the YouTube video record via this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Mz4FZYcZg.

NARIT-PlanetaryScience.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Break

15:00 → 16:30 Session 2 Hands-on Activities: TESS transit light curve

Friday, 29 July

09:30 → 10:30 Session 3: Monsoon and aerosol study

This session is completed. The video record for the lecture in this session is now available on YouTube. Please click the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr6uuat98IU

VanisaSurapipith_MonsoonAerosol_20220727.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:00 Session 4: Ionosphere and Equatorial plasma bubble

In this session, we will learn the basics of ionosphere as well as local disturbances so called "Equatoral plasma bubbles (EPB)." Various instruments to observe such irregularity will be overviewed. In addition, the characteristics, effects and challenges to modern technologies will be highlighed.

This session is completed. The record of lecture on Session 4 is available at the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzyK-8PMZDk

Speaker: Pornchai Supnithi (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang)

Training_CMU_23_July_2022_Lectures_ProfPornchai.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:30 Session 3 Hands-on Activities: Atmospheric models: Visualizing Atmospheric Forecast Data using Panoply

The participants will have to process model output data given by the TAs (180 GB). A smaller version at 5.7 GB is uploaded here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HKvR-XVKe33vPh-n53xAt2RXAlPIzElF?usp=sharing

Also in this session, the participants need to download the Panoply software from:

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/

This session is completed. The video record for the Hands-on part 1 is available at the YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blHKMXX2q6o

For the record of Hands-on session Part 2, please follow the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqFZ1_uxnKk

Background on the Data Used (Visualizing Atmospheric Data Using Panoply).pptx

Panoply_starter_guide_v2.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Break

15:00 → 16:30 Session 4 Hands-on Activities: Ionosphere and Equatorial plasma bubble: computer analysis

In this session, we will to study the characteristics of Slant TEC and Vertical TEC (VTEC) at Chiangmai GNSS station and compare with the TEC from the IRI model. In addition, we will invistigate the Kp index (disturbance to Earth’s magnetic filed) on those days.

This session is completed. For the video record of the Hands-on activity of this session please find at the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt481zYDne8

Training_CMU_23_July_2022_Hand_on_session_ProfPornchai.pdf

Data

• TEC_CHM_DOY_130_2022 - Edit.xlsx
• TEC_CHM_DOY_163_2022 - Edit.xlsx
• TEC_CHM_DOY_169_2022 - Edit.xlsx
• TEC_CHM_Jun_176_2022 -Edit.xlsx

Saturday, 30 July

09:30 → 10:30 Session 5: Introduction of geomagnetic substorm

This session is completed. Please find the video record for the lecture of this session at the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SW2sRMWyP8

220730_psa_ws_thailand_lecture_miyashita.pdf

220730_psa_ws_thailand_lecture_miyashita.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:00 Session 5 Hands-on Activities: CEF and possible on-demand analysis tools e.g., NASA CDAWeb

During the activities, each of us will open both the presentation file and a browser on a computer at the same time so that we can copy and paste the addresses of the websites and the date and time for the plots.

This session is completed. Please also find the video record for the Hands-on lecture for this session at the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAsqEBxu67M

220730_psa_ws_thailand_hands-on_miyashita.pdf

12:00 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:30 Session 6: High latitude electrodynamics: The asymmetric connection to space

A biref introduction to high latitude electrodynamics, mainly from an ionospheric perspective. I will focus on how pursuing investigations of asymmetries in the geospace system has been a fruitful approach to gain new knowledge of the coupled system.

This session is completed. The video record for this session can be viewed at the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LaJtSJXM8o

Planetary Science and Astrophysics workshop_ Research talk (2).pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Break

15:00 → 16:30 Session 6 Hands-on Activities: High-school level outreach projects

A brief introduction to my own experiences as a researcher engaging in outreach activities in Norway, followed by some example exercises I have used in my outreach activities.

This session is completed. The video for the hands-on lecture for this session can be viewed via YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qp37rPNRBk

Planetary Science and Astrophysics workshop_ High School talk (2).pdf

18:00 → 19:00 Banquet

Sunday, 31 July

09:30 → 10:30 Session 7: Atmospheric compositions and related space missions

This session is completed. Please see the video record of the lecture in this session via YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqhuTHLewkA

introduction to upper atmosphere physics and opticalmeasurements.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:00 Session 7 Hands-on Activities: Online resources for atmospheric compositions during geomagnetic substorm

This session is completed. Please see the video record for the lecture during the Hands-on activity in this session via YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6nfHKyu6UA

looking at geomagnetic storms using ssusi guvi data.pptx

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:30 Closing Remark