Exoplanet detection, formation and evolution
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)