AST 383T Seminar in Stellar Astronomy

Speaker	Articles (majority of articles in pdf format)
Mike Endl	Attaining Doppler Precision of 3 ms^{-1 1,2} Extra-Solar Planetary Systems in the VLT Era
Don Winget	Evolutionary Timescale of the Pulsating White Dwarf G117-B15A: The Most Stable Optical Clock Known A Detection of the Evolutionary Time Scale of the DA White Dwarf G117-B15A with the Whole Earth Telescope Implications of constraining the rate of period change with time in a pulsating White Dwarf Are There Planets Around the Pulsar PSR B03291+54?
Bill Cochran and Nairn Baliber	Required Reading The photometric method of detecting other planetary systems, Borucki & Summers 1984, Icarus, 58, 121-134 (photocopy in Peridier) Detection of Planetary Transits Across a Sun-like Star Hubble Space Telescope Time-series Photometry of the Transiting Planet of HD 209458, ApJ., 552, 669B Kepler Mission web site (a space-based search for terrestrial extrasolar planets) Suggested Reading Detection of an Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere (detection of sodium in the transmission spectra of HD 209458 b) Transmission Spectra as Diagnostics of Extrasolar Giant Planet Atmospheres (theory paper by Tim Brown), ApJ., 553, 1006-1026
Fritz Benedict	Space-borne global astrometric surveys: the hunt for extra-solar planets On the detection of other planetary systems by astrometric techniques Interferometric Astrometry of Proxima Centauri and Barnardïs Star
Russell White	Planetary Portraits - a Nature News Feature. Optimization and Performance of Adaptive Optics for Imaging Extrasolar Planets An Imaging Nulling Interferometer to Study Extrasolar Planets TPF mission document, chapter 6 TPF mission document, chapter 7 The Darwin Project Characterization of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets from Diurnal Photometric Variability Synthetic Spectra of Simulater Terrestrial Atmospheres Containing Possible Biomarker Gases
Brad Behr	Sackett (1998), astro-ph 9811269 section 3 comprehensive overview of planetary microlensing Gaudi et al (2002), ApJ 566 463 introduction provides brief summary of relevant parameters Griest & Safizadeh (1998), ApJ 500 37 more math details of lensing theory Rhie et al (2000), ApJ 533 378 good example of how observational constraints work in practice
Neal Evans	Reviews: The Structure and Evolution of Envelopes and Disks in Young Stellar Systems, in Protostars and Planets IV, pg. 355 Mundy, Looney, and Welch 2000. (available in Peridier) The Structure and Evolution of Envelopes and Disks in Young Stellar Systems, in Protostars and Planets IV, pg. 533 Beckwith, Henning, and Nakagawa 2000. (available in Peridier) New Results: Evidence for planetesimal growth? Bouwman, J., Meeus, G., de Koter, A., Hony, S., Dominik, C., \& Waters, L.~B.~F.~M.\ 2001, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 375, 950 Chemical Models of Disks Aikawa, Y.~\& Herbst, E.\ 2001, Astronomu and Astrophysics, 371, 1107
Sheila Kannappan and Brad Behr	Refugees for Life in a Hostile Universe Gonzalez, Brownlee, & Ward, Scientific American, Oct 2001
John Scalo	Habitable Zones around Main Sequence Stars Kasting, Whitmire, Reynolds Habitability of planets around Red Dwarf Stars Heath, Doyle, Joshi, Haberle
Anita Cochran	Evolution of Molecular Abundance in Protoplanetary Disks Aikawa, Umebayashi, Nakano, Miyamo A Two-Dimensional Model for the Primordial Nebula Constrained by D/H Measurements in the Solar System: Implications for the Formation of Giant Planets Hersant, Gautier, Huré Cometary Origin of the Biosphere Delsemme