Lecture 10: The next big things

Further reading

• 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.

Source for images

• Cir X-1 starting image: from http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/cirx1/
• Cir X-1 images from Johnston et al. 2015 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015arXiv151103701J and references therein.
• Chandra X-ray images: from "X-ray Binary Circinus X-1" http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/xray-binary-circinus-x1.html and APOD 2015 Aug 5 http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150805.html
• 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
• Kepler 34-b: from http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2012-02
• Kepler-453: from "Discovery of Tenth Tatooine-like Circumbinary Planet" http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/Kepler453b/
• Exoplanets bouncing in a 250AU binary: from http://www.nickolas1.com/
• Habitable zone: from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanets
• Kepler's small habitable zone planets: from http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=393
• Kepler K2 mission: from http://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/K2/MissionConcept.shtml and http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=341
• Planet in quadruple star system: from http://news.yale.edu/2012/10/15/armchair-astronomers-find-planet-four-star-system
• SKA: from http://www.skatelescope.org/media-outreach/images/ and http://www.skatelescope.org/media-outreach/videos/
• GMT: http://www.gmto.org/overview/
• TMT: http://www.tmt.org/gallery/photo-illustrations
• E-ELT: http://www.eso.org/public/images/archive/search/?adv=&subject_name=Extremely%20Large%20Telescope
• 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
• Image distortion due to gravitational waves: from "Will we ever detect gravitational waves directly?" by Matthew Francis, http://galileospendulum.org/2013/03/26/will-we-ever-detect-gravitational-waves-directly/
• LIGO images: from http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
• VIRGO images: from http://www.ego-gw.it/public/about/whatIs.aspx
• Westerlund 2: from "Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates 25 Years of Unveiling the Universe" http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/nebula/2015/12/

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Last updated 19 November 2015