Title: The impact of stellar activity on detecting earth analog exoplanets

Abstract: The next generation of exoplanet radial velocity instruments are set to achieve 
a precision of 0.1 m/s, capable of detecting Earth-sized planets orbiting within the habitable 
zone of solar-type stars. One unavoidable issue with searching for such small radial velocity 
signals is disentangling the planet signal from the radial velocity induced by the host star.

In this talk, I will review the state-of-the-art exoplanet surveys, and in particular, the 
EXtreme PREcision Spectrometer (EXPRES) at Lowell Observatory's 4.3-m Discovery Channel Telescope. 
I will also discuss how we will use simultaneous observations of the Sun from EXPRES and NASA's 
Solar Dynamics Observatory to model the induced radial velocity from stellar variability to 
recover signals from a potentially habitable exoplanet.