The Inner Solar System Grand Tack (2011) } - solves the “Mars problem” - explains asteroid belt dichotomy - brings water into inner SS Source: http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~kwalsh/GrandTack.html Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
The Inner Solar System Grand Tack (2011) } - solves the “Mars problem” - explains asteroid belt dichotomy - brings water into inner SS Source: http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~kwalsh/GrandTack.html Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
Model (2005) - explains Oort Cloud - explains Trojan systems - explains resonant TNOs - timing of Late Heavy Bombardment } Forming The Outer Solar System Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
Model (2005) - explains Oort Cloud - explains Trojan systems - explains resonant TNOs - timing of Late Heavy Bombardment } Forming The Outer Solar System Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
Model (2005) - explains Oort Cloud - explains Trojan systems - explains resonant TNOs - timing of Late Heavy Bombardment } Forming The Solar System Grand Tack (2011) } - solves the “Mars problem” - explains asteroid belt dichotomy - brings water into inner SS Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
h-p://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1035g/ Jupiter’s RV signal on Sun: 12 m/s Earth’s RV signal on Sun: 0.1 m/s Today’s RV precision: ~1 m/s Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
j k Radial velocity Using N-body Differential evolution MCMC (the data) (the model) (the method) Nelson, Ford, & Payne (2014) Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
j k Radial velocity Using N-body Differential evolution MCMC (the data) (the model) (the method) Nelson, Ford, & Payne (2014) Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
Takeaway #1: number of Markov chains ≈ 3 x number of dimensions ter Braak (2006) Nelson, Ford, & Payne (2014) Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
Takeaway #2: Boring methods papers can still get publicity. Just use a ridiculous acronym. ter Braak (2006) Nelson, Ford, & Payne (2014) Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
“b” and “c” are dynamically coupled but not in resonance Dynamics in a Probabilistic Framework 8.63 ± 0.35 M⊕ (Winn+ 2011) 8.37 ± 0.38 M⊕ (Endl+ 2012) 8.09 ± 0.26 M⊕ (Nelson+ 2014) 2. Lower mass estimate for “e” 55 Cnc A e b c f d Nelson+ (2014) Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
p(✓|M)p(d|✓, M)d✓ The probability of my dataset d being generated from some model M parameterized by θ... fully marginalized likelihood (FML) prior likelihood To choose between two competing models M1 and M2, take the ratio of their FMLs... = p(d|M2) p(d|M1) Bayes factor Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
http://dan.iel.fm/emcee/current/user/pt/ Importance Sampling: https://github.com/benelson/FML Efficient ways to compute FMLs FML = Z p(✓)p(d|✓)d✓ = Z p(✓)p(d|✓) g(✓) g(✓)d✓ [ FML ⇡ 1 N X ✓i ⇠g(✓) p(✓i)p(d|✓i) g(✓i) Seth Pritchard (UT San Antonio) Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
is... GJ 876 c b d e GJ 876 c b d e GJ 876 c b d e GJ 876 c b d e Bayes Factor = = = f ~1031 Nelson+ (2016) Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
1.6 RE Planets Are Not Rocky Wolfgang, Rogers, & Ford (2016) A Probabilistic Mass-Radius Relationship Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
for explaining these objects Before: After: Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Source: http://jila.colorado.edu/~pja/planet_migration.html Wednesday, February 22, 17
separation distance at which star’s gravity will destroy planet* Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 *not exactly, e.g., Valsecchi, Rasio, & Steffen 2014 Wednesday, February 22, 17
separation distance at which star’s gravity will destroy planet* x can’t be less than 1! x can’t be less than 2! Eccentric migration Disk migration *not exactly, e.g., Valsecchi, Rasio, & Steffen 2014 Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17
well modeled with a single population consistent with an eccentric migration history. HAT and WASP data are better explained with a mixture of two populations*: ~2/3 coming from eccentric migration ~1/3 coming from disk migration Project available at: https://github.com/benelson/hjs-with-stan Nelson, Ford, & Rasio (in review) Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 * caveats include completeness within surveys, burn-in/convergence, model assumptions (e.g. two components, hard edges of truncated power law), no constraints via other data (e.g. spin-orbit alignment, metallicity, stellar age, multiplicity/companions) Wednesday, February 22, 17
of... ASTRO Program Working Group I: Uncertainty Quantification and Astrophysical Emulation Working Group II: Synoptic Time Domain Surveys Working Group III: Multivariate and Irregularly Sampled Time Series Working Group IV: Astrophysical Populations Working Group V: Statistics, computation, and modeling in cosmology Information: https://www.samsi.info/ Wednesdays@NICO February 22, 2017 Wednesday, February 22, 17