Worlds around other starshdiamondlowe/__Presentation_Beacon… · Phases of Venus New stars...
Transcript of Worlds around other starshdiamondlowe/__Presentation_Beacon… · Phases of Venus New stars...
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Worlds around other starsThe past, present, and future of exoplanets
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What is an exoplanet?
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If the Sun were a grain of sand...
A sense of scale
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A sense of scalePicture the Solar System...
Recommended viewingTo Scale: The Solar System
By Wylie Overstreet
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A sense of scalePicture the Solar System...
Images from To Scale: The Solar System By Wylie Overstreet
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Images from To Scale: The Solar System By Wylie Overstreet
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Images from To Scale: The Solar System By Wylie Overstreet
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Part I: The history of exoplanets
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Polynesian navigators (1200 BCE - present)
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Epicurus (ca. 300 BCE)“Moreover, there is an infinite number of worlds, some like this world, others unlike it.”
-- EpicurusLetter to Herodotus
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“Finally we shall place the sun himself at the center of the universe.”
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
-- Nicolaus CopernicusOn the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
(1543)
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Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)“There are countless suns and countless earths all rotating around their suns in exactly the same way as the seven planets of our system… The countless worlds in the universe are no worse and no less inhabited than our Earth.”
-- Giordano BrunoOn the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
● Uneven surface of the Moon● Jupiter’s moons
“Besides the Moon, this spyglass has allowed me to see a multitude of fixed stars never before seen”
-- Galileo Galilei (1610)
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)“Besides the Moon, this spyglass has allowed me to see a multitude of fixed stars never before seen”
-- Galileo Galilei (1610)
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
● Uneven surface of the Moon● Jupiter’s moons● Phases of Venus● New stars
“Besides the Moon, this spyglass has allowed me to see a multitude of fixed stars never before seen”
-- Galileo Galilei (1610)
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● Pluto (1930) -- Clyde Tombaugh (predicted by Percival Lowell)
● Uranus (1781) -- William Herschel
Discovering the Solar System
● Neptune (1846) -- Johann Gottfried Galle (predicted by Urbain Le Verrier)
4 x Earth
’s size
3.8x Earth
’s size
0.2x Earth
’s size
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Are we alone?Frank Drank develops an equation for the existence of intelligent life (1961)
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Are we alone?Science fiction weighs in
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Planet discoveriesAt first a trickle…
● First planet detected, but not confirmed for several years (1989)● First planets discovered around millisecond pulsar (1992)● First planet discovered around a main-sequence star (1995)● First planet discovered to transit a star (1999)● The CoRoT spacecraft launches (2006) and discovers 32 planets
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Planet discoveries...and then a downpour Kepler spacecraft launches
(March 7, 2009)
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Planet discoveriesLooking for nearby worlds
TESS launches (April 18, 2018)
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3,916Exoplanet discovered
(as of February 15, 2019)
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We are in an era of discoveryand there is so much to learn
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Part II: The science of exoplanets
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Three questions● What are the types of stars?● What is light?● How do we detect planets?
○ Radial velocity (“wobble”)○ Transits○ Direct imaging○ Microlensing
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Three questions● What are the types of stars?● What is light?● How do we detect planets?
○ Radial velocity (“wobble”)○ Transits○ Direct imaging○ Microlensing
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What is a star?A star is a luminous ball of gas held together by its own gravity.
A star maintains its brightness by fusing hydrogen in its core.
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What are the types of stars?
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What are the types of stars?
Larger Smaller
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What are the types of stars?
Hotter Cooler
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What are the types of stars?
Brighter Dimmer
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What are the types of stars?
Few Many
Sun
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Three questions● What are the types of stars?● What is light?● How do we detect planets?
○ Radial velocity (“wobble”)○ Transits○ Direct imaging○ Microlensing
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The spectrum of light
X-rays
Higher energy Lower energy
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The spectrum of light
X-rays
Higher energy Lower energy
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What light do stars produce?
Lesslight
Morelight
Blue star(Temp. = 7000 K)
The Sun (Temp. = 5770 K)
Red star (Temp. = 4000 K)
Sun
Hotter CoolerIn
frare
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What light do stars produce?Stars produce most of their light in the ultra-violet, visible, and infrared parts of the light spectrum
X-rays
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Three questions● What are the types of stars?● What is light?● How do we detect planets?
○ Radial velocity (“wobble”)○ Transits○ Direct imaging○ Microlensing
Higher energy Lower energy
X-rays
Exoplanet searches
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Radial velocity (“wobble”)Stars “wobble” because of the planets orbiting them
Higher energy Lower energy
X-rays
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Radial velocity (“wobble”)
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TransitTransit detections are usually easier to make
Higher energy Lower energy
X-rays
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Direct imagingLook at planets directly, but block out the star!
Higher energy Lower energy
X-rays
Infra
red
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Direct imagingFour young planets around the star HR 8799
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MicrolensingUsing the properties of light-bending theorized by Einstein, look at stars very far away from us
Higher energy Lower energy
X-rays
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MicrolensingUsing the properties of light-bending theorized by Einstein, look at stars very far away from us
Higher energy Lower energy
X-rays
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Microlensing
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Known exoplanets
◾ Radial velocity ● Transit+ Direct imaging▲ Microlensing
Earth
Jupiter
Neptune
Venus
Saturn
Uranus
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} RV + Transit + Microlensing + Direct Imaging
Transit
Transit
Transit
Transit
Transit +Direct Imaging Microlensing
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Part III: Cutting-edge research in exoplanets
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Digging deeper● New kinds of planets● Exoplanet atmospheres● Focus on M stars● Signs of life● The promise of future observatories
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Exoplanet detections reveal new kinds of planets
◾ Radial velocity ● Transit+ Direct imaging▲ Microlensing
Earth
Jupiter
Neptune
Venus
Saturn
Uranus
Hot Jupiters
Rocky Planets
Mini-Neptunes/Super Earths
Warm Jupiters
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Current questions● Is our Solar System typical or unique?● What are the atmospheres of other worlds like?● Can any of these exoplanets support life?
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Current questions● Is our Solar System typical or unique?● What are the atmospheres of other worlds like?● Can any of these exoplanets support life?
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We know the Earth has an atmosphere
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Exoplanet can have atmospheres too
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Exoplanet transits in different light
Higher energy Lower energyVisible light
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Stellar radius Planet radius
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Stellar radius Planet radius
Infrared
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Stellar radius Planet radius
Infrared
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Molecules detected in exoplanet spectraFor large, hot planets, we can easily detect some key molecules
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How can we detect the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet?
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To study Earth-like planets, study small stars
Larger Smaller
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Smaller stars = bigger planet transits
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To study Earth-like planets, study cool stars
Hotter Cooler
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Smaller stars = closer habitable zone
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Exoplanets exist in habitable zones
Better for radial velocity (“wobble”) and transit detections
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To study Earth-like planets, study a lot of stars
Few Many
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● Liquid water?● Oxygen?
Can a planet support life?
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Image credit: Meadows+ (2018)
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The future of exoplanetsSome recommendations:
● Direct imaging from space● Invest in ground-based telescopes
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Direct imaging: starshade in space
WFIRST spacecraft (planned)
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Ground-based observationsThe Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Chile, and the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) in Hawaii
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Ground-based observationsThe Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Chile, and the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) in Hawaii
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Telescope sizes
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