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COMPASS Team Member Talks

COMPASS talks coming up in 2024!

Lili was selected to be in the next NASA ExoExplorers cohort and will discuss COMPASS results during her talk on March 8. (Hannah and Johanna will also be ExoGuides for this cohort.) Nicole will be representing COMPASS with a talk at Extreme Solar Systems V in March and Munazza with a talk at Exoplanets 5 in June!

Nicole's poster gave a status update on our analysis of TOI-836.01 (which she is leading from the observational side), in particular an issue we are seeing across multiple reductions (Eureka!, ExoTIC-JEDI, Tiberius) where the mid-transit times fit to the NRS1 and NRS 2 data differ by multiple sigma. Nicole has done a deep dive on a systematic model that includes different JWST engineering parameters, but so far we haven't been able to crack this difference. We haven't heard of any other teams/data sets with this issue, but if you're seeing something similar, please reach out! Below is a photo of team members at the meeting, L-R: Johanna, Hannah, Peter, James, & Nicole.

Understanding planet formation requires robust population studies, which are designed to reveal trends in planet properties. In this new paper we aimed to determine if and how different methods for selecting populations of exoplanets for atmospheric characterization with JWST could influence population-level inferences.