The Search for Exoplanets: What Astronomers Know
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Join the search for another Earth in this 24-lecture series that explores the brand new science of exoplanets-worlds that exist outside of our solar system.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Why Study Exoplanets?
- 02: How to Find an Exoplanet
- 03: Doppler and Transit Planet-Finding Methods
- 04: Pioneers of Planet Searching
- 05: The Misplaced Giant Planets
- 06: Explaining the Misplaced Giant Planets
- 07: The Transits of Exoplanets
- 08: Sniffing Planetary Atmospheres
- 09: Stellar Rotation and Planetary Revolution
- 10: Super-Earths or Mini-Neptunes?
- 11: Transiting Planets and the Kepler Mission
- 12: Compact Multiplanet Systems
- 13: Planets Circling Two Stars
- 14: Lava Worlds
- 15: Earthlike Planets
- 16: Living with a Dwarf Star
- 17: Living with a Giant Star
- 18: Our Nearest Exoplanetary Neighbors
- 19: Finding Planets with Gravitational Lensing
- 20: Finding Planets with Direct Imaging
- 21: Near-Term Future Planet-Finding Projects
- 22: Long-Term Future Planet-Finding Projects
- 23: The Search for Life on Exoplanets
- 24: Coming Soon: Biosignatures, Moons, and More!
Taught by
Joshua N. Winn
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