Lecture 9: The next big things

Further reading

• The most complete list is at "The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia" http://exoplanet.eu/, but it's just a giant list of planets, with not much by way of readable information.
• NASA now has a site called "PlanetQuest: Exoplanet exploration" at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/, which has a host of useful information, including a page to search the catalogue of exoplanets in various ways
• The California and Carnegie Planet Search, http://exoplanets.org/ has lots of useful things, including nice tools to plot the data
• space.com has a list of "The Strangest Alien Planets" at http://www.space.com/159-strangest-alien-planets.html
• The Kepler website is at http://www.kepler.nasa.gov: they have loads of good pictures and animations, as well as a live counter telling you how many planets they've found!
• The Citizen Science project Planet Hunters is at http://www.planethunters.org; you can help identify transits and find new planet candidates. The site is part of the zooniverse project, which has many participatory projects, from identifying galaxies, to exploring features on the Moon, and identifying potential Kuiper Belt targets for New Horizons.
• NASA maintains an "Upcoming Planetary Launches and Events" page at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/upcoming.html

Source for images

• Light house and firefly: from PlanetQuest "Search for another Earth" powerpoint presentation http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/frequentImages.cfm
• Astrometric displacement due to Jupiter: Planet Quest: Science - Finding planets http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/science/finding_planets.cfm
• 51 Pegasi figures: from Niel Brandt, Astro 1, http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/niel/astro1/slideshows/class44/slides-44.html
• 47 Ursa Majoris: artist's impression by John Whatmough, from Astronomy Picture of the Day 1997 October 5, http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap971005.html; 70 Virginis, image by Walter Myers, http://www.arcadiastreet.com/cgvistas/exo_020.htm
• Orbit geometry: from "The Search for and Discovery of Extra-Solar Planets" by Richard Larson, http://www.astro.washington.edu/larson/Astro150b/Lectures/ExtraSolarPlanets/xsp.html
• Transit graph: from Kepler animations http://kepler.nasa.gov/multimedia/animations/?ImageID=38
• Venus transit: photo by David Cortner, from Astronomy Picture of the Day 2004 June 23, http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040623.html
• Transit light curve: from "Planets orbiting around other stars" by Michael Richmond, http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys230/lectures/planets/planets.html
• Exoplanet systems: from California and Carnegie Planet Search, http://exoplanets.org/multi_chart_big.jpg
• 55 Cancri: from Planet Quest http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ssu_images.cfm
• All Kepler images are from http://kepler.nasa.gov
• HAT-P-7b light curve: from Borucki et al, 2009, "Kepler's Optical Phase Curve of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7b", http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009Sci...325..709B; animation from http://kepler.nasa.gov/multimedia/animations/
• Kepler results: from powerpoint presentation by Bill Borucki http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=98
• Planet around α Cen B: from http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/
• α Cen orbit: from http://phl.upr.edu/press-releases/aplanetarysystemaroundourneareststarisemerging
• Radial velocity curve: from Nature paper http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1241/eso1241a.pdf
• Proton-proton chain: from Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies and Cosmology: The Proton-Proton Chain http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/energy/ppchain.html
• Davis experiment: from "Big World of Small Neutrinos", http://conferences.fnal.gov/lp2003/forthepublic/neutrinos/
• Super-Kamiokande: Diagram: from Super-K at U. of Washington, http://www.phys.washington,edu/~superk/uwgroup.html
• Photo of interior: from Photo Album of the SK detector, http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/doc/sk/photo/index.html
• Cherenkov radiation: from http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/nuclear-wasteland
• Neutrino event from SN1987A: from John Vander Velde http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jcv/imb/imbp4.html#Supernova
• LIGO images: from http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
• VIRGO images: from http://www.ego-gw.it/public/about/whatIs.aspx
• SKA: from http://www.skatelescope.org/media-outreach/images/ and http://www.skatelescope.org/media-outreach/videos/
• GMT: http://www.gmto.org/gallery-stills.html
• TMT: http://www.tmt.org/gallery/photo-illustrations
• E-ELT: http://www.eso.org/public/images/archive/search/?adv=&subject_name=Extremely%20Large%20Telescope
• Juno at Jupiter: from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_%28spacecraft%29
• Orion nebula: from HubbleSite http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/01/

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Last updated 22 November 2012