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）提供差旅支持和津贴，以参加将于2015年7月6日至8日在康涅狄格州纽黑文市耶鲁大学举行的“第二次测量精确径向速度研讨会”。该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，以反映使用多普勒径向速度技术搜索太阳系外行星的各个层面的大局和细节。 这项工作的成功将需要光谱仪能力的重大改进，以便探测这些小行星对它们的主恒星的非常小的引力。讲习班将记录各种设施的现有最先进的多普勒精度，评估不同的分光计设计和对最近结果的科学分析，并讨论评估微弱探测的统计意义的方法。

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.