Here are materials for the course I am teaching in the 2019/20 winter semester at Potsdam University. There is no formal set of lecture notes, everything I write on the blackboard needs to be written down by the students themselves. If I show some slides during the lecture, they can be found here.

Week 1 (16.10.2019):

Intro slides (Exoplanets_week01)

Exoplanet discovery paper (Mayor1995)

How science is done (howscienceworks)

Active learning at university (Deslauriers_2019)

Week 2 (23.10.2019):

Slides (Exoplanets_week02)

Transit observables paper (Seager_MallenOrnelas_2003)

Week 3 (30.10.2019):

Slides (exoplanets_week03)

Week 4 (06.11.2019):

Reading material on microlensing for exoplanet detections: Tsapras_microlensing

Read the introduction and section 2, especially sub-sections 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, Figure 3, and roughly look at binary lenses in 2.3 and 2.8 for a general idea of what a lens consisting of a star with a planet does. No need to understand the formulas in 2.3 in detail.

Week 5 (13.11.2019):

Slides (exoplanets_week05)

Week 6 (20.11.2019):

Slides (exoplanets_week06)

Week 7 (27.11.2019):

Slides (exoplanets_week07)

Week 8 (04.12.2019):

Melis et al. paper (Melis2012), supplementary information (Melis2012supplementary)

Günther et al. paper (Guenther2017)

Week 9 (11.12.2019):

Slides (exoplanets_week09)

animation for transit spectrophotometry (link)

Week 10 (18.12.2019):

Slides (exoplanets_week10)

Week 11 (08.01.2020):

Slides (exoplanets_week11)

Week 12 (15.01.2020):

Exoplanet paper 1 (Mansfield_2018)

Exoplanet paper 2 (Gaensicke_2019)

Week 13 (22.01.2020):

Exoplanet paper 1 (Berdyugina_2017)

Exoplanet paper 2 (Robertson_2014)

Week 14 (29.01.2020):

session led by Dr. Mallonn

Week 15 (05.02.2020):

Exoplanets observing proposal (YoungExoplanets_proposal)