The Search for Exoplanets : What Astronomers Know

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Call Number: BOCD 523.24 Wi Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Compact discs.
24 lectures (30 minutes each).
"Course no. 1802"--Container.
Disc 1. Why study exoplanets? -- How to find an exoplanet -- Doppler and transit planet-finding methods -- Pioneers of planet searching -- Misplaced giant planets -- Explaining the misplaced giant planets. Disc 2. Transits of exoplanets -- Shifing planetary atmospheres -- Stellar rotation and planetary revolution -- Super-Earth or mini-Neptures? -- Transiting planets and the Kepler Mission -- Compact multiplanet systems. Disc 3. Planets circling two stars -- Lava worlds -- Earthlike planets -- Living with a dwarf star -- Living with a giant star -- Our nearest exoplanetary neighbors. Disc 4. Finding planets with gravitational lensing -- Finding planets with direct imaging -- Near-term future planet-finding projects -- Long-term future planet-finding projects -- Search for life on exoplanets -- Coming soon: Biosignatures, Moons, and more!
Lecturer: Professor Joshua N. Winn, Massachussetts Institute of Technology.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Excellent submitted by krogers on June 14, 2020, 5:03pm Very engaging lecturer on a fascinating subject, with understandable explanations of some pretty advanced techniques of scientific evidence-gathering. The course is not super mathematical, but it is somewhat hard to process some of the math if you're listening in a car.