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Splinter Session

Exospace Weather

JANUARY 7th 2026 @ AAS 247 PHOENIX

Phoenix Convention Center 121 B 1:00 - 5:30 PM MT

Session Overview

With the confluence of new Solar System monitoring programs, renewed solar, stellar, and planet modeling efforts, and the high community priority to understand exoplanet atmospheres, tackling the problem of detecting and characterizing particles in the space environments of planets has never been more needed.

The detection of particles is a missing piece in the puzzle of stellar and planetary evolution. To support this research field and promote an environment for scientific discussion, we will hold this splinter session to discuss particle detection in the context of space weather and planets.

Schedule

Time Speaker Talk Topic
1:00 PM
R O Parke Loyd
Eureka Scientific Inc.
Exospace Weather Report
1:20 PM
Mike Chaffin
University of Colorado
Space Weather and Planetary Evolution
1:40 PM
Ben Pearce
Purdue University
Space Weather and Biology
2:00 PM
Jeffrey Linsky
University of Colorado
Space Weather Particles and their Effects on Exoplanets
2:20 PM
Panel Discussion
What properties of exospace weather should we prioritize for observing and modeling?
3:10 PM Coffee Break
3:40 PM
Nuri Park
Arizona State University
Observations of Space Weather in the Solar System
4:00 PM
Rachel Osten
Space Telescope Science Institute
Observations of Stellar Winds
4:20 PM
Constanza Argiroffi
INAF-Oss. Astronomico di Palermo
Observations of Stellar CMEs
4:50 PM
Panel Discussion
What would it take for our community to accept a stellar CME detection as definitive?
5:20 PM Adjourn

Scientific Organizing Committee

Evgenya Shkolnik

Co-Chair

Arizona State University

Laura Amaral

Co-Chair

Arizona State University

R.O. Parke Loyd

Co-Chair

Eureka Scientific, Inc.

Arika Egan

 

Johns Hopkins University

Gregg Hallinan

California Institute of Technology

Joseph Lazio

California Institute of Technology

Julián D. Alvarado-Gómez

Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam

Karin Dissauer

NorthWest Research Associates