How to find exoplanets?

Public talk at 2018 St Andrews Observatory Open Night.

Transcript

1. How to find exoplanets? St Andrews Observatory Open Night Fran Bartolić 1
2. 2 © NASA Reminder: we are here
3. The Solar System 3 © earthhow.com
4. What are exoplanets? 4 •
5. History of exoplanet discoveries 5 • • •
6. History of exoplanet discoveries 6 © Hugh Osborn • • •
7. Diversity of exoplanets 7 © NASA
8. On average, there’s 1 planet for every star in the Milky Way. 8
9. How does an exoplanet look like? 9
10. This is not an exoplanet 10 © ESO
11. This is an exoplanet 11
12. This is an exoplanet 12
13. How can we detect exoplanets? 13
14. 14 © NASA NASA Kepler mission
15. 15 © Pearson et. al. 2017 Needle in a haystack
16. 16 What’s coming up next in exoplanet science? • • • Exomoon?
17. Take home messages 17 • • •
18. Take home messages 18 • • •