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The goal of Blue Dots is to prepare a roadmap towards the detection and characterization of habitable exoplanets, recognizing that this ambitious goal will require several intermediate steps. The scope of the initiative is science oriented and not restricted to a particular detection technique, and some networking activity will be needed to integrate the perspectives from different communities. The roadmap was discussed at the Pathways Towards Habitable Planets conference held in Barcelona in September 2009. The report summarizing Blue Dots findings can be downloaded here.
Vincent Coudé du Foresto
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Download Blue Dots report (News)
Wednesday 30 June 2010
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The latest version (currently 2.02) of the Blue Dots report is available here for download. This version has been approved by the Working Group coordinators.
Summary of the Pathways conference (News)
Monday 21 December 2009
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At the initiative of Blue Dots and other sponsors, exoplanet scientists from around the world gathered in Barcelona on September 14th-18th, 2009, to debate and reach a consensus on defining guidelines for a new roadmap with the ultimate objective of finding habitable, and potentially inhabited, (...)
Sagan Program and 2010 Sagan Fellowships (News)
Sunday 6 September 2009
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2010 SAGAN FELLOWSHIPS
The NASA Exoplanet Science Institute announces the 2010 Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and solicits applications for fellowships to begin in the fall of 2010.
The Sagan Fellowships support outstanding recent postdoctoral scientists to conduct independent research (...)
Draft Blue Dots report (Goodies)
Friday 4 September 2009
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Here’s the latest draft (version 1.3, July 26th, 2009) of the Blue Dots report. Do not hesitate to send your feedback to team.bluedots§obspm.fr .
The report will be finalized before the end of 2009, taking into account elements from the Pathways (...)
Blue Dots meeting #6 (News)
Sunday 8 March 2009
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The next Blue Dots meeting will be hosted at ISSI in Bern on March 25th and 26th, in conjunction with the meeting of the ISSI team led by Helmut Lammer.
Participants:
Roy Alonso
Vincent Coudé du Foresto
Stefan Dieters (for Jean-Philippe Beaulieu)
Malcolm Fridlund
Lisa (...)
ESA coordinator position open (News)
Tuesday 3 February 2009
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A position at ESA has just opened for a Coordinator for Astronomy and Fundamental Physics Missions, who will play a major role in the implementation of the Cosmic Vision program. See here for details. Deadline for applications is Feb. 16th, (...)
BD meeting #4 (News)
Friday 14 November 2008
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The next Blue Dots meeting was held at Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (Council Room) on November 17-18th, 2008:
Participants:
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (on-and-off, preparing the Molecules workshop)
Anthony Boccaletti
James Cho (Planetary atmospheres, Monday only)
Vincent Coudé du (...)
EP-RAT white papers (Goodies)
Thursday 13 November 2008
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This article compiles the EP-RAT white papers for which we have received the authorization to put on line:
"Detection of Extrasolar Planets in Circumstellar Disks" by S. Wolf
"Atmospheric modeling: Setting Biomarkers in context" by L. Kaltenegger and F. Selsis
"An optimized nulling ground (...)
Other white papers (Goodies)
Wednesday 12 November 2008
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Here’s a list a white papers spontaneously submitted to Blue Dots:
"The case for optical interferometric polarimetry" by N. Elias et al. (arXiv link)
Pathways conference announced (News)
Tuesday 30 September 2008
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The "Pathways Towards Habitable Planets" conference is announced here. It will be held in Barcelona between Sep. 14-18th, 2009, and is sponsored in part by the Blue Dots initiative.
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