The astrophysics of exoplanets
Please note that the video recordings of the lectures are too large to be hosted here, and they are only available on the Moodle website through Potsdam University.
Week 01 materials:
Lecture notes: Exoplanets_week01
Notes on how science works: howscienceworks
Blackboard notes on how science works: diagram
Paper by Wolszczan and Frail 1992 on exoplanet discovery: Wolszczan_1992
Week 02 materials:
Blackboard notes: exoplanets_week02
Week 03 materials:
No blackboard notes for today.
Link to MAST archive of TESS data, to be explored together in the live session: https://mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashup/Clients/Mast/Portal.html
Paper by Plavchan et al. 2020 on a planet around the young star AU Mic: Plavchan_2020_planet_around_AUMic
Week 04 materials:
Week 05 materials:
Short recap of exoplanet detections methods, and then we moved on to star and planet formation.
Lecture slides: exoplanets_week06
Week 06 materials:
In this week we addressed a big topic in planet formation, the “meter-size barrier”. We looked at what obstacles to planet formation are, and how the principle of “pebble accretion” overcomes those.
Slides: exoplanets_week07
Week 07 materials:
In this week we will do a discussion session on different processes in star-disk systems and how they can be observed with the help of colour-magnitude diagrams. We will also look at an original research paper on a special protoplanetary disk – here is the paper Melis2012. We will read and discuss this in the class.
Week 08 materials:
In this week we move on from star and planet formation to exoplanet characterization, particularly exoplanet atmospheres. We start with a short recap pf the first half of the semester, and then move on to principles of exoplanet spectra observations, and explore original data on the portal https://exo.mast.stsci.edu/ – interesting planet spectra to explore are for example of the planets WASP-17 b, GJ 436 b, HAT-P-11 b, HD 189733 b, GJ 1214 b, WASP-31 b, HAT-P-1 b, HD 209458 b.
Animation of spectrophotometry of planetary atmosheres
Week 09 materials:
In this week we took a closer look at exoplanet atmospheres and their evaporation processes.
Note for next week (20.01.2021): This week Dr. Julian Alvarado-Gomez will give the lecture instead of myself, on the topic of space weather and exoplanets. For this session only, please use a different zoom connection, I will email you the zoom link. Also, since his lecture will not be the full 90 minutes, please also read this paper in preparation for the session in the following week, where we will discuss the paper: Schlaufman2018
Slides from the presentation: JAG_Stellarmagnetism_slides
Week 11 and following: materials to be uploaded soon.