Past Events

PLATOSpec workshop

The workshop will take place in the seminar room behind the 2m telescope here

We will organize transportation from Berchtold Castle hotel on Monday morning. How you get to the Berchtold is below on the page.

The purpose of 2 nd PLATOSPec workshop is to gettogether the community which will be potentially using the PLATOSpec instrument. We would like to discuss the PLATOSpec project, the science which can be done with PLATOSpec and conclude on next steps for PLATOSpec. We have to discuss funding and also partnership/cooperation of interested parties in the Consortium.

The workshop dinner will take place on 29.10. at Berchtold castle restaurant around 19:30. Expected fee for the dinner will be 500 CZK (payable in cash). Furthermore, we will order lunches for Monday and Tuesday from the MENU and bring the lunch to the seminar room. The price will be 500 CZK in total for both days. Unfortunately, CZK Cash will be required for this and MENU options will be sent by email. At the end of the meeting, we should discuss next steps and the timeline for PLATOSpec.

Program Draft:

Monday 29
10:00 - 11:00 Arrival and coffee
11:00 - 11:30 Welcome and PLATO space mission overview - V. Karas, P. Kabath
11:30 - 12:00 PLATOSpec presentation - P. Kabath<
12:00 - 12:15 PLATOSpec design - M. Flores SLIDE : pdf
12:15 - 12:45 Radial velocity follow-up for space missions - A. Hatzes
12:45 - 13:15 The purpose of taking one, or few high-resolution spectra of PLATO candidates before we start with precise RV-measurements - E. Guenther SLIDE : pdf
13:15 - 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 - 15:00 Ondrejov ground based follow-up facility - P. Kabath/M. Skarka SLIDE : pdf
15:00 - 15:30 "FIDEOS spectrograph: radial velocity stability results at the ESO1m" - A. Zapata SLIDE : pdf
15:30 - 16:00 MU presentation - E. Paunzen SLIDE : pdf
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE
16:30 - 17:00 High-resolution echelle at Skalnate Pleso: future plans and development - Th. Pribulla SLIDE : pdf
17:00 - 17:30 UK presentation - D. Korčáková SLIDE : pdf
17:30 - 18:00 ESO data format and how to make the data ESO compatible - V. Ivanov SLIDE : pdf
18:00 - 18:30 Limits of ground based RV surveys - S. Sabotta SLIDE : pdf
18:30 - 18:45 Discussion and conclusions 1st day
19:30 - ... DINNER Berchtold
Tuesday 30
09:00 - 09:30 Super flares in stars from Kepler field – P. Heinzel
09:30 - 10:00 Eclipsing binaries in ASAS-SN and APOGEE - M. Pawlak SLIDE : pdf
10:00 - 10:30 Asteroseismology from high-resolution time-series spectroscopy – P. Beck SLIDE : pdf
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE
11:00 - 11:30 Shellspec: a code for simulating light curves and spectra of interacting binaries and exoplanets - J. Budaj SLIDE : pdf
11:30 - 12:00 Status and next steps for PLATOSpec projects – P. Kabath + all
12:00 - 14:00 Discussion and conclusions, plans, funding, participation
14:00 - ... open end DISCUSSION, LUNCH, departure

How you get to Berchtold ?

If you arrive by train, you travel to Strancice with the line S9 from Prague central station. The train is running every 30 minutes even on Sundays.

From Strancice there is a bus 461 departing from the station but the interval is about once in an hour. Therefore, you need some planning. The timetable from Strancice is here

Sunday is represented by a cross above the window with times. If there is no connection at all for your arrival, please let us know and we organize the transport.