AN INTRODUCTION TO EXOPLANETS
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Explore planets around other stars.
My name is Giovanni Bruno and I am the lecturer for this course on extrasolar planets. I am excited to invite you on a journey through the main discoveries that were made since the first exoplanet was found.
In this course, you will learn what the main types of exoplanets are, how they are looked for and studied, and get familiar with the main findings about their atmospheres and formation environment. We will explore the implications of what we have learnt so far in the search for life in the Universe, and discuss the challenges that await us.
During this course, we will also have some quick looks at stellar physics and at comparisons between exoplanets and our Solar System planets, as our close environment can be better understood by placing it in the broader context we live in.
Every lesson contains hints and references that you can use to dive deeper in the topics I will discuss, if you feel like.About the lecturer
Giovanni Bruno is a researcher at the Catania chapter of the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), and a member of several exoplanet-related consortia such as CHEOPS, PLATO and Ariel. He was a postdoc at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA, where he worked on exoplanet atmospheres studied with the Hubble Space Telescope. He got his MSc at the University of Milan-Bicocca and his PhD at the University of Aix-Marseille, France, with a thesis on stellar and exoplanet observations carried out with the CoRoT and Kepler space telescopes.
01. Introduction
02. Internal Structure
03. Transits
04. Radial Velocities
05. Direct Imaging
06. Primary Secondary Atmospheres
07. Spectra Energy Budget
08. Atmospheres Observations
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Gas giant planet -
Neptune-like planet -
Rocky planet