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Welcome to Astro286 - Exoplanets course

Instructor: Smadar Naoz

Reader: Emily Martin

The class takes place on Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00pm - 4:00pm. Home-Work assignments are mandatory and will be 35% of the final grade. There will be a final project - more details will follow.

A summary of the above information and the syllabus can be found here

Final Project
Suggested papers:

• Friends of Hot Jupiters I Knutson et al 2014
• planet-planet scattering Rasio and Ford 1996
• Terrestrial Planets from a Narrow Annulus Hansen 2009
• The Grand Tack Walsh et al 2011
• Aerodynamics in the solar nebula Weidenschilling 1977
• Dust Growth and Settling D'Alessio et al 2006
• Orbital migration 51 Pegasi b Li et al 1996
• Orbital migration Li and Papaloizou 1986
• Eccentricity Evolution in Gaseous Disks Goldreich and Sari 2003
• Final Stages of Planet Formation Goldreich et al 2004
• The Snow Line and Giant Planets Kennedy and Kenyon 2008
• Streaming Instabilities in Protoplanetary Disks Youdin and Goodman 2005
• Gravitational Instability and Giant Planets Rafikov 2005
• Terrestrial Planets Formation Kenyon and Bromley 2006
• Giant Planets Formation via Accretion Pollack et al 1996

Tips on how to give a talk:

• How to give a killer talk by Chris Crockett @ AstroBetter (follow the links there too)
• Learning to Give Better Talks: One Message per Slide. One Slide per Message by Kelle @ AstroBetter (follow the links there too)
• Your body language shapes who you are - fake it till you become it and positive feedback loop TED talk by Amy Cuddy (highly recommended!)
• How Not To Give a Scientific Talk by Michael De Robertis

Recommended reading

Textbooks (not required)

• Astrophysics of Planet Formation by Phil Armitage
• Solar System Dynamics by Murray and Dermott
• Exoplanets (a collection of reviews) by Sara Seager

Review articles

• Dynamics of Protoplanetary Disks by Phil Armitage
• Forming Planetesimals in Solar and Extrasolar Nebulae by Chiang and Youdin
• Building Terrestrial Planets by Morbidelli et al.
• Keplerian Orbits and Dynamics of Exoplanets by Murray and Correia
• The Long-Term Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems by Davies et al.