extrasolar planets dr. jade carter-bond (lillian’s daughter) u3a 6 june, 2012
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Extrasolar Planets
Dr. Jade Carter-Bond(Lillian’s Daughter)
U3A6 June, 2012
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Extrasolar Planets:What they are, what we know about them, why we should care, where ET
lives (just kidding!) what I’ve been doing for the last 12 years and why
your tax dollars should continue to helpme pay my rent
Dr. Jade Carter-Bond(Lillian’s Daughter)
U3A6 June, 2012
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Astronomy RIGHT NOW!
Today Venus is transiting the Sun and we have great visibility from Australia.
Start: 8:16 amEnd: 2:44 pm
Transits occur 8 years apart and then not for over a century.
Next transit: 2117
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Astronomy RIGHT NOW!
Today Venus is transiting the Sun and we have great visibility from Australia.
Start: 8:16 amEnd: 2:44 pm
Watch either with a telescope with a solar filter (don’t look at the Sun directly) or online:
http://www.transitofvenus.com.auhttp://venustransit.nasa.gov
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Astronomy RIGHT NOW!
1639: First transit of Venus observed. Helped to really cement the heliocentric model of Nicolaus Copernicus.
1716: Edmund Halley suggested observations could help determine the distance to the Sun
1761: Observations attempted, failed.Side note: Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were sent to observe the transit in Sumatra, only reached Cape Town. They then went on to survey the border between Pennsylvania & Maryland – the Mason-Dixon line
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Astronomy RIGHT NOW!
1769: Highly observed transit.Side note: Lieutenant James Cook was sent to Tahiti to observe the transit & was successful. Then opened his sealed orders, instructing him to look for “Terra Australis Incognita” . . .
And here we are!
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Astronomy RIGHT NOW!
For further reading, have a look at:
The Day the World Discovered the SunBy Mark Anderson
Chasing VenusBy Andrea Wulf
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Jargon
Extrasolar planet:Planet orbiting a star other than our own sun.Most extrasolar planets are gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune)
1 Jupiter mass = 318 Earth masses
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The first planetsPlanet = wandering star
Plato: “the Sun and Moon and five other stars, which are called the planets” (360 BC) (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn)
1781: William Herschel discovered Uranus
1846: Neptune discovered
1930: Pluto discovered (we can argue about definitions later)
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Is that it?
1930 – 1963: Several claims for extrasolar planets, never confirmed
1963: Jupiter-mass planet orbiting “Barnard’s Star” (second closest star to the Sun)
1973: Proven false, due to equipment installed at the telescope
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JACKPOT!
1994: The first discovery of a planet orbiting a Solar-type star, 51 Pegasi (confirmed 1995)
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Planet Rush
1990: 0 extrasolar planets
1995: 1 extrasolar planet
2002: 77 extrasolar planets
5 June, 2012:
767 planets orbiting 613 stars2321 planet candidates
orbiting 1790 stars
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What are they like?
Most planets have masses similar to that of Jupiter:
So most extrasolar planets are gas giants.
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What are they like?Most planets orbit closer to their star than Earth does
to the Sun:
But that’s a selection effect/technique bias.
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What are they like?
Of the few we can study, they have unusual compositions.
We have detected:
CH4 CO2 H2 K TiO
CO H H2O Na VO
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What are they like?
Extrasolar host stars tend to be metal rich:
We’re not yet sure exactly what that means for planets.
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How do we find them?
We very rarely just “see” the planets!
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How do we find them?
We very rarely just “see” the planets!
Two main methods are used:
1. Radial velocity shift surveys
2. Transit surveys
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Radial Velocity
Basically look for stellar “jiggles”. Does not directly find a planet.
No planetary companion: random variations
Planetary companion: systematic variations due to orbits
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Radial Velocity
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What does a spectrum look like?
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Radial Velocity
No planetary companion: random variations
Planetary companion: systematic variations due to orbits
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Radial Velocity
Very successful – found or confirmed more than 700 of the 767 known planets
But it has issues! - The effect is greatest for large mass planet in very close in orbits- Requires us to observe for at least one full orbit (Jupiter = 12 years)- Requires high precision, placing lower limits on the size of the signal we can detect
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Transit Surveys
Transit surveys look for the dimming of a star as a planet passes in front of it.
Example: the transit of Venus!
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Transit Surveys
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Transit Surveys
The reduction in light is tiny: often less than 1%
Jupiter: 1%Earth: <0.01%
The depth of the dip gives us the size of the planet; the width gives us how long it takes to pass across the star → orbit size
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Transit Surveys
Again, this method has issues:- It requires the system to be aligned “just right”- It requires high precision and little interference
One solution: Do it from space!
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Kepler Mission
Kepler launched March 6, 2009, to “stare” at stars and look for light dips.
Possible to find Earth mass planets in orbits similar to that of the Earth.
Wildly successful!61 confirmed planets2321 planet candidates
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Kepler Mission
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Wanna help?
You too can be a planet hunter!
http://www.planethunters.org/
Anyone can look at public Kepler data and identify transit dips.
Successful – two papers already published with possible planets
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Why?
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Why?1. To understand our own Solar System – how it
formed and why it is the way that it is.
2. Are we alone?
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Why?Carl Sagan said it best with his introduction to “Pale Blue Dot”Photo taken by Voyager 1 (launched 1977) in 1990 from 6 billion km away from Earth. Earth is just 0.12 pixel in size.
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Thank you!Any questions?
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http://www.transitofvenus.com.auhttp://venustransit.nasa.gov
The Day the World Discovered the SunBy Mark Anderson
Chasing VenusBy Andrea Wulf
http://www.planethunters.org/