2019 Petnica Summer School on Astrophysics

Supporting materials for my lectures on exoplanets at the 2019 Summer School on Astrophysics in Petnica, Serbia.

Schedule

Day 1 - An overview of exoplanet science and the two-body problem

Saturday, 27th July, 2019

• Slides on exoplanets(warning, these are ~30MB)
• Notes on the two-body problem

Day 2 - Hands-on session on planetary dynamics and N-body simulations with REBOUND

Sunday, 28th July, 2019

• Introduction to N-body simulations with REBOUND
• Exercise on the Kozai mechanism
• Exercise on stability of circumbinary planets

Day 3 - Data analysis and a hands-on session on fitting transit lightcurves using MCMC

Monday, 29th July, 2019

• Notes on data analysis
• Exercise on fitting a transit light curve with the Metropolis algorithm

Instructions for running the Jupyter notebooks

Running the notebooks using Binder

You don't need to install anything locally to run Jupyter notebooks with Binder, all you need is a web browser and decent wifi. Simply click on the "launch binder" icon on the top of these notes. It may take some time to start.

Running the notebooks locally

If you have prior experience with Jupyter notebooks and Python, you can run the notebooks after installing the following additional packages:

pip install numpy matplotlib rebound 

Solutions to exercises

To check the solutions for the exercises, change the repository branch from "master" to "solutions" and navigate to the relevant directories. The Jupyter notebooks should render in your browser.