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Exoplanets
Worlds Without End
Copyright Lynette Cook, used with permission
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Goals
• Are there planets around other stars?
• How do we know?
• Are they systems like ours?
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Are there other Earths?
Copyright – Tyler Nordgren
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How do we Know?
• Two methods:
1. Radial Velocity.
2. Transit
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1. Thermal Emission and Spectral lines
• A star like our Sun has absorption lines.
HOT
You
COOL
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Emission Lines
• Every element has a DIFFERENT finger print.
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Doppler
Shift
• The greater
the velocity
the greater
the shift.
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Concept Test
• I spin an object emitting a constant tone over
my head. What do you hear?
a. A constant tone.
b. A tone that goes back and forth between high and
low frequency.
c. A constant tone of lower intensity.
d. Two constant tones, one of higher frequency and
one of lower frequency.
e. One tone going smoothly from low to high
intensity.
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Concept Test
• I spin an object emitting a constant tone over
my head. What do I hear?
a. A constant tone.
b. A tone that goes back and forth between high and
low frequency.
c. A constant tone of lower intensity.
d. Two constant tones, one of higher frequency and
one of lower frequency.
e. One tone going from smoothly from low to high
intensity.
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So Now…
• From the presence and position of Spectral
Lines we can know:
– Composition (H, He, H2O, etc.)
– Movement through space (towards or away)
– How fast?
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2. Reflex Motion
• The Moon doesn’t orbit the Earth.
• The Earth doesn’t orbit the Sun.
• What do they do?
• They each orbit their combined center of mass.
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The “Wobble”
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3. Doppler Shifts
• Movement towards or away yields Doppler shifts.
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/planet-hunting2.htm
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4. Doppler Velocity
• From Doppler shifts we get a velocity and period.
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5. Kepler
• Kepler’s Second Law:
• Kepler’s Third Law:
a( AU )
P( yrs) 
M*
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Result: 51 Pegasi
a = 0.052 AU
Mayor and Queloz
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Concept Test
• We know of planets around other stars
because:
a. We have seen the changing velocity of a star
caused by the pull of a small unseen planet.
b. We have seen the motion of the planet caused by
the wobble of the star.
c. We have seen the changing position of the star
caused by the pull of the small unseen planet.
d. We have seen the changing velocity of the planet
caused by the motion of the star.
e. We have seen the planet reflecting the star’s
light.
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Worlds without End?
• Known Planets:
– In our Solar System: 8
– Outside our Solar System:
680
• Known Planetary
Systems:
– Prior Sept. 1995: 1 (ours)
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– As of Feb 2012: 92
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Concept Question
What is the biggest surprise about extrasolar
planetary systems?
a. Most of the systems only have one planet.
b. Many systems have several planets larger
than Jupiter.
c. Many systems have very large planets
orbiting close to the star.
d. Most of the planets do not fit into the
categories of terrestrial or jovian planets.
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Upsilon Andromedae
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But Are They Real?
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Planet Shadows
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HD 209458
Based on Doppler curve,
knew when planet
might pass in front of
its star.
Greg Henry (Tennessee State Univ.)
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Concept Question
From the Radial Velocity Method we learn a
planet’s mass. If we see that planet transit
then we can also learn its:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Size
Density
Composition
All of the above
None of the above
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Kepler Mission
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Kepler Systems
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Smallest Kepler planets
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Hubble Space
Telescope
Savage et al. 2001
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Homework for Friday
• Find a favorite exoplanet (or exoplanetary
system). Go to one of the following:
http://exoplanet.eu/catalog.php
http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html
http://kepler.nasa.gov/
• Search the catalog and find your favorite.
• Write down the following and bring to class:
1. Name of the Star
2. Mass or Radius of the planet (number of planets and their
masses/radii if it is a system)
3. Period of the planet (periods of the planets)
4. Orbital radius of the planet (radii of their orbits)
5. Why you picked it.
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