ASTR/GEOL/ATOC 5835: Planetary Science Seminar
Spring 2002: Extrasolar Planets

See links below for each week's papers (current week in red).
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Schedule

Discovery Methods
22 Jan

Dimitri Veras
Radial velocity searches (and brown dwarf 'rebuttal')
"Planets Orbiting Other Suns" , PASP 112, Marcy & Butler (2000)
"Two New Planets from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search" , ApJ 555, Butler et al (2001)
29 Jan

James Roberts
Photometric searches - transits, microlensing
"HST Time-series Photometry of the Transiting planet HD209458" , ApJ 552, 699, Brown et al (2001)"
"Discovering planetary systems through gravitational microlenses" , ApJ 396, 104, Gould, A. & Loeb, A. (1992)
Formation
05 Feb

Josh Walawender
Generalized solar system formation theory
Bodenheimer, Hubickyj, and Lissauer (2000) Icarus 143, 2
http://www.idealibrary.com/links/citation/0019-1035/143/2
Kortenkamp, Wetherill, and Inaba (2001) Science 293, 1127
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/293/5532/1127
12 Feb

Meredith Drosback
Protoplanetary disks - observations
Bally et al., Disk Mass Limits in the Orion Nebula (1998) Ast. J.  116:854-859
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/journal/issues/v116n2/980130/980130.html
Astronomers Discover Edge on Proplyd in Quadruple Star System
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr02/pr0201.html
Orbital properties & evolution
19 Feb

Phil Armitage
Disk-planet interactions, migration, cannibalism
"Orbital Evolution and Migration of Giant Planets: Modeling Extrasolar Planets", Trilling et al., 1998, ApJ, 500, 428 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v500n1/36904/36904.html
"Migrating Planets", Murray, Hansen, Holman & Tremaine, 1998, Science, 279, 69
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/279/5347/69
26 Feb

Than Putzig
Eccentricity and multiple planets
"Dynamical Instabilities in Extrasolar Planetary Systems Containing Two Giant Planets", Ford, Havlickova, & Rasio, Icarus, 150, 303 (2001)
http://xxx.lpthe.jussieu.fr/abs/astro-ph/0010178
"Dynamics and Origin of the 2:1 Orbital Resonances of the GJ876 Planets", Lee, M. & Peale S., ApJ, 567, 596 (2001)
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v567n1/54571/54571.web.pdf
Supplemental readings:
"Orbital Eccentricity Growth Through Disc-Companion Tidal Interaction", Papaloizou, Nelson & Masset, A&A, 366, 263 (2001)

http://www.edpsciences.org/articles/aa/abs/2001/04/aa9988/aa9988.html
"Excitation of Orbital Eccentricities of Extrasolar Planets by Repeated Resonance Crossings.", Chiang E., Fischer D. & Thommes E., ApJ. Letters, 564, L105 (2002)
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJL/v564n2/15831/15831.html
Physical properties
05 Mar

Catherine Boone
Atmospheric theory: temperatures, clouds, circulation
"Atmospheres of Giant Planets from Neptune to Gliese 229B" in Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets (Tenerife 1997), Marley, M. (1997)
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9706234 (abstract & link to various formats)
"Albedo and Reflection Spectra of Extrasolar Giant Planets", Sudarsky, Burrows,  & Pinto, ApJ 538, 885 (2000)
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v538n2/50692/50692.html
12 Mar

Tim Brown
Atmospheric Observations: Transit spectroscopy, differential spectroscopy
Seager, S. & Sasselov, D. (2000), "Theoretical Transmission Spectra during Extrasolar Giant Planet Transits", ApJ 537, 916.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v537n2/51258/51258.html
Charbonneau, D. et al. (2002), "Detection of an Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere", ApJ (in press).
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~dc/atmosphere.pdf or
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~dc/atmosphere.ps
Gluttons for punishment may want to look at the gigantic Brown, T.M. (2001), "Transmission Spectra as Diagnostics of Extrasolar Giant Planet Atmospheres", ApJ 553, 1006.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v553n2/52448/52448.html
14 Mar Thursday

Harold Reitsema
Related seminar: "Kepler Discovery Mission" (terrestrial planet finder)
4:00 PM in Auditorium 299 at LASP Space Technology Building, Campus Research Park (Innovation Drive, north off of Colorado Ave. to the east of 30th Street).
Abstract
19 Mar

Amy Barr
Bulk/interior properties, brown dwarf - giant planet connection, free-floating planets
Chabrier and Baraffe, "Theory of Low-Mass Stars and Substellar Objects" Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, v. 38, p. 337-377 (2000)
http://astro.annualreviews.org/cgi/reprint/38/1/337.pdf
Sanchez-Lavega, A. "A similarity approach to the atmospheric dynamics of giant extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs" Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 377, p. 354-360 (2001)
http://www.edpsciences-usa.org/articles/aa/pdf/2001/37/aa1137.pdf
Osorio, et. al. "Discovery of Young, Isolated Planetary Mass Objects in the sigma-Orionis Star cluster" Science v. 290, p. 103-107
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/290/5489/103.pdf
02 Apr

Tim Van Vliet
Magnetospheres, radio searches
"On the possibility of coherent cyclotron emission from extrasolar planets"
W. M. Farrell and M. D. Desch, P. Zarka, JGR Planets v.104 NO. E6 Pg. 14025-14032 June 25, 1999
Optional reading: "A Search for Radio Emission from Extrasolar Planets"
T.S. Bastian, G.A. Dulk, Y. Leblanc, The Astrophysical Journal 545:1058-1063 December 20, 2000
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v545n2/52153/52153.html
09 Apr

Kevin McGouldrick
Extrasolar dust disks, kuiper belts, asteroid belts
"Beta Pictoris: An Early Solar Sysytem?"
Artymowicz P. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science. 25:175.1997.
http://earth.annualreviews.org/cgi/reprint/25/1/175.pdf
"Discovery of water vapour around IRC+10216 as evidence for comets orbiting another star."
Melnick GJ, et al. Nature. 412:160. 2001.
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v412/n6843/full/412160a0_fs.html&content_filetype=pdf
Future Missions/Big Picture
16 Apr

Wes Patterson
Kepler, COROT, MONS; Is our solar system weird?
Batalha, N. M., Jenkins, J., Basri, G. S., Borucki, W. J., and Koch, D. G., Stellar Variability and Its Implications for Photometric Planet Detection with Kepler, Proc 1st Eddington workshop "Stellar Structure and Habitable planet Finding", Cordoba, 11-15 June 2001 (ESA SP-485, Nov 2001, F. Favata, I. W. Roxburgh & D. Galadi eds)
AND
Borucki, W. J., Koch, D. G., Dunham, E. W., and Jenkins, J. M.,The Kepler Mission: A Mission To Determine The Frequency Of Inner Planets Near The Habitable Zone Of A Wide Range Of Stars Planets Beyond The Solar System and The Next Generation of Space Missions, ASP Conf Ser ,119, 153-173 (1997), ed. David Solderblom
Both can be found at: http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/papers.html
Two other URLs of interest:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/planets/corot.html
http://www.obs.aau.dk/MSC/
23 Apr

Sean Doyle
Space Interferometry Mission & astrometric searches
RIDLUND M., 2000, Darwin - The Infrared Space Interferometry Mission. ESA Bulletin, no. 103 August 2000
http://esapub.esrin.esa.it/bulletin/bullet103.htm
QUELOZ D., BENZ W., DELFOSSE X. & MAYOR M., 2000b, Results on extra-solar planet search and their impacts on future astrometric surveys. In Interferometry in Optical Astrometry. SPIE conf 4006, P. J. Lna & A. Quirrenbach (Eds), in press
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/planets/bibli2000.html
30 Apr

Dominic Papineau
Terrestrial Planet Finder; Habitability & astrobiology
Schindler and Kasting, Synthetic spectra of simulated terrestrial atmospheres containing possible biomarker gases, Icarus 145, 2000, p262-271.
http://www.idealibrary.com/links/doi/10.1006/icar.2000.6340/pdf
Terrestrial Planet Finder, JPL Publication 99-3, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (especially chapter 6).
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/TPF/tpf_book/index.html