S382-related resources

 TRANSITING EXOPLANETS

GENERAL WEB RESOURCES

- The Extrasolar Planet Encyclopaedia:
http://exoplanet.eu/index.php

- Links quoted by the EPE mentioned above:
http://exoplanet.eu/sites.php

- California Planet Survey:
http://exoplanets.org/cps.html



LECTURES

- Lectures 4 to 7 in Charles Baylin's course "Introduction to Astrophysics" at Yale are a good way to refresh the exoplanet detection methods studied in S283 before starting to tackle this part of the OU course. The midterm and final exams plus solutions can be interesting to examine:

http://academicearth.org/lectures/planetary-transits

- "The Galactic Quest for Exoplanets", at Cal Tech, by several speakers:
 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/10006990

- "Lick Exoplanet Search", at the SETI institute (Dec 2009):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQr_VdBFz4U

- "Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets", at the SETI institute (June 2010):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmh_k4ClJ7Y

- "Stellar research and the search for exoplanets", Research Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7vUIBuIrhA&playnext=1&list=PLC62D3D556DB31E23&index=4

- Dimitar Sasselov: "How we found hundreds of exoplanets", TED talks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8bM8K7W_R8&feature=related

- "The theory and observation of exoplanets" (program with many speakers; podcasts-audio-camera-slides), at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara:
http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/exoplanets10/

POCASTS:
- From "Astronomy magazine":
http://www.astronomy.com/en/Multimedia/Podcasts/2006/09/Astronomy%20magazine%20podcast%20Exoplanets.aspx

http://www.astronomy.com/en/sitecore/content/Home/Multimedia/Podcasts/2007/04/Astronomy%20magazine%20podcast%20New%20exoplanet.aspx-

- From "365 days of Astronomy", moons around exoplanets:
http://365daysofastronomy.org/2010/03/22/march-22nd-detecting-moons-around-extrasolar-planets/

- The discovery of arsenic-based life has been a very interesting finding for Astrobiology. A podcast about it from Astronomy Cast:
http://www.astronomycast.com/aliens/ep-209-exotic-life/



VIDEOCASTS

- Several exoplanet videocasts in the ESO video archive:
http://www.eso.org/public/videos/archive/category/esocast/