PPT-Exoplanets

Big Science Big Telescopes Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre Contents Part 1 Big Telescopes Why do we need so many telescopes Why build big telescopes Part 2 Big Science Hunting for exoplanets. http://. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release. =2011-373. Kepler mission. Are we alone?. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/phoenix/phx20070724/phx-20070723-1280.m4v. How did life start on Earth?. Where can we find potentially life supporting conditions in our solar system?. Planetary Migration of Jovian . Exoplanets. Norio Narita. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Outline. Brief review of orbits of Solar System bodies. Introduction of . exoplanets. and migration models. meeting #2. Good use for diffraction: . exoplanets. Good use for diffraction: . exoplanets. Chromatic aberration. Spherical aberration. Parabolic. Spherical. Coma. Astigmatism. (e.g., Hale telescope). Saturday Physics for Everyone. Jon Thaler. October 27, 2012. Credit: NASA/. Kepler. Mission/Dana Berry. Outline. What is an exoplanet?. Why are they interesting?. How can we find them?. Exolife. ?? . For . New Planets. Matthew Livas. mlivas@terpmail.umd.edu. Science, Discovery, and the Universe. Computer Science. Introduction. My capstone was to observe exoplanet transits. A transit is when a planet orbiting another star passes in front of its star from our view on Earth, blocking a small portion of the star’s light. This change in the target star’s brightness is detected by measuring the brightness of the star over time and subsequently graphing it to obtain a light curve.. Exoplanets. Norio Narita (NAOJ). Transit of Venus on June 5, 2012 at Hawaii. Outline. Introduction of Transit. Current Status of Studies. . of Transiting . Exoplanets. Further . Studies of Transiting . Four Lectures by Prof. James Bullock. UC Irvine Physics and Astronomy. Presented by Dennis Silverman. Prof. James . Bullock’s . Education and Honors. Recommended Books and Websites. Rare Earth. Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life. from Direct-Imaging . Exoplanet. Missions. Renyu Hu. Hubble Fellow. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology. With thanks to Wesley . Traub. (JPL). HD 189733 b. Evans et al. 2013; Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (. K2/TESS Special Session. #aas229, January 4 2017. Jessie Christiansen. Caltech/IPAC-. NExScI. The number of known exoplanets has been increasing exponentially for 25 years. …. . Mamajek’s. Law. plasmons. and measurements of exoplanet atmospheres. By: Elizabeth Surovic. Outline. 1. Properties of frequency combs. 2. Surface plasmons. 3. Conversion of broadband light into surface plasmons. 4. Discovery of exoplanets. Twenty years ago, the search for planets--and life--outside the solar system was a job restricted to science fiction writers. It is now one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy, with thousands of these exoplanets discovered so far. The detection of these worlds has only been possible in the last decade, with the number of discoveries increasing enormously over the last year following the findings of the Kepler Space Telescope. These new worlds are more alien than anything in fiction. Planets larger than Jupiter with years lasting one week, planets circling the dead remains of stars, others with two suns lighting their skies or with no sun at all. These locations hint at Earth-sized worlds but with split hemispheres of perpetual day and night, waterworlds drowning under global oceans, and volcanic lava planets spewing seas of magma. The Planet Factory tells the story of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars outside of our solar system. Discover the specks of dust that circle a young star come together in a violent building project that can form colossal worlds hundreds of times the size of the Earth the changing orbits of young planets that risk dooming the life forming on neighboring worlds or, alternatively, that can deliver the key ingredients needed to seed its beginnings. Exoplanets are one of the greatest construction schemes in the universe and they occur around nearly every star you see. Each result is an alien landscape, but is it possible that one of these could be like our own home? The Planet Factory discusses the way these planets form, their structure and features, and describes in detail the detection techniques used (there are many) before looking at what we can learn about the surface environments and planetary atmospheres, and whether this hints at the tantalizing possibility of life. An informative and entertaining read, The Planet Factory takes the reader to the cutting edge of the ongoing search for worlds like our own, and the hints of life elsewhere in the cosmos. For the first time in human history, we know for certain the existence of planets around other stars. Now the fastest-growing field in space science, the time is right for this fundamental source book on the topic which will lay the foundation for its continued growth.Exoplanets serves as both an introduction for the non-specialist and a foundation for the techniques and equations used in exoplanet observation by those dedicated to the field. Envisioning Exoplanets traces the journey of astronomers and researchers on their quest to explore the universe for a planet like Earth-- Project Motivation – High Z Galactic Structure. Bouwens. , et al, NATURE . vol. 469/Issue No 7331. Z = 10.3, 500 . Myr. after Big Bang . mag. = 28.92, photos 2.4” on side, H= 1.6 . m. m. Project Motivation: High Z Galactic Structure.