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Course Planning
Lectures
- Detecting Other Worlds: The Radial-Velocity Method — slides · notes
- The Transit Method: Light Curves, Depth, and Duration — slides · notes
- Complementary Detection: Astrometry, Microlensing, and Direct Imaging — slides · notes
- Exoplanet Demographics: Occurrence Rates and the Mass-Radius Relation — slides · notes
- Orbital Architectures: Eccentricities, Resonances, and Migration — slides · notes
- Planetary Interiors from Mass and Radius: The Composition Degeneracy — slides · notes
- Atmospheric Characterization: Transmission and Emission Spectroscopy — slides · notes
- Atmospheric Escape and the Evaporating Hot Jupiters — slides · notes
- The Habitable Zone: Radiative-Equilibrium Boundaries — slides · notes
- Climate Feedback and Habitability Beyond the Classical Habitable Zone — slides · notes
- Biosignature Gases and the False-Positive Problem — slides · notes
- Extremophiles and the Physical Limits of Life — slides · notes
- Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life — slides · notes
- Capstone: The Drake Equation and the Scientific Limits of Life Detection — slides · notes
Labs
- Lab 01: Radial Velocity and Transit Method: 51 Pegasi b and HD 209458 b
- Lab 02: Exoplanet Demographics: Mass-Radius Diagram and Classification
- Lab 03: TRAPPIST-1 Orbital Resonances and Interior Density Inference
- Lab 04: Atmospheric Scale Height and Escape: HD 209458 b
- Lab 05: Habitable Zone Census: The Sun, TRAPPIST-1, and the Classical Boundaries
- Lab 06: Biosignature False-Positive Reasoning and Extremophile Tolerance Limits
- Lab 07: Capstone: Full-System Synthesis and the Drake Equation
Problem Sets
- Problem Set 01 / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 02 / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 03 / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 04 / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 05 / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 06 / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 07 / solutions / assessment