The Second Workshop on Measuring Precise Radial Velocities

该奖项为21名参与者（主要是早期职业研究人员）提供旅行支持和津贴，以参加将于2015年7月6日至8日在康涅狄格州纽黑文耶鲁大学举行的“第二届精确径向速度测量研讨会”。研讨会将提供一个独特的机会，聚集具有广泛专业知识的科学家，在使用多普勒径向速度技术搜索系外行星的各个层面上，对全局和细节进行反思。要想成功地完成这项工作，就需要大幅提高光谱仪的能力，以便探测到这些小行星对其宿主恒星的微小引力。研讨会将记录各种设备的最新多普勒精度，评估不同的光谱仪设计和对最新结果的科学分析，并讨论评估弱探测的统计显著性的方法。

This award funds travel support and stipends for 21 participants, mainly early-career researchers, to attend "The Second Workshop on Measuring Precise Radial Velocities," which will take place July 6-8, 2015 at Yale University, New Haven, CT. The workshop will provide a unique opportunity to gather scientists with a broad range of specialized expertise to reflect on both the big picture and the details at every level of searches for extrasolar planets using the Doppler Radial Velocity technique. Succeeding in this effort will require significant improvements to spectrometer capabilities in order to detect the very small gravitational pulls of such small planets on their host stars. The workshop will document the established state of the art Doppler precision from various facilities, assess different spectrometer designs and the scientific analysis for recent results, and discuss methods for assessing the statistical significance of weak detections.