Reading_list.md

Who needs a reading list? You do!:

Astronomers conduct much of their reading online, but a good collection of books is always nice to have.

• Astronomy

  • Exoplanet Atmospheres (Seager)
    • https://seagerexoplanets.mit.edu/books.htm
  • Exoplanets book.
    • https://seagerexoplanets.mit.edu/books.htm
  • Protostars and Planets
    • https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/protostars-and-planets-v
  • Small Exoplanets Occurrence and Envelope Structure(concise Review)
    • https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2960
  • Exoplanet Atmospheres Review:
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018arXiv180408149F/abstract
  • Planet formation of Super Earths, Review:
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018arXiv180203090S/abstract
  • Exoplanet Atomospheres at High Resolution
    • https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.04617.pdf
  • Exoplanet Discovery:
    • TRAPPIST discovery paper https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21360
    • early kepler discovery paper http://science.sciencemag.org/content/327/5968/977
    • exo-Earth discovery paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5667
  • Planetary Systems - what they look like and how (often) they occur:
    • https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-astro-082214-122246

• Statistics

  • Bevington (link below is to free pdf)
    • http://hosting.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro3310/Books/Bevington_opt.pdf
  • Baysian Statistics in Astronomy
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017ARA&A..55..213S/abstract
  • Planet occurrance (Advanced):
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018haex.bookE.195W/abstract

• Data Analysis and Tools

  • Python analysis book.
    • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/python-for-data/9781491957653/
  • Fitting data to a line (suprisingly advanced)
    • https://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.4686.pdf

• Examples of undergraduate research papers:

  • "A Search for Planets around Barnard's star" UC Berkeley undergrad, Jiuen Choi
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012AAS...21924504C/abstract
  • Systemic Radial Velocities for ~2000 Planet Search Stars, UC Berkeley undergrad: Carly Chubak
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012arXiv1207.6212C/abstract
  • "Detection of Stars within 0.8" of Kepler Objects of Interest" UC Berkeley undergrad: Rea Kolbl
    • https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.5259.pdf
  • "Precision Stellar Characterization of FGKM Stars using an Empirical Spectral Library" CalTech UG: Samuel Yee
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017ApJ...836...77Y/abstract
  • "HAT-P-11: Discovery of a Second Planet and a Clue to Understanding Exoplanet Obliquities" CalTech UG: Samuel Yee
    • "https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018AJ....155..255Y/abstract
  • "Orbits for the Impatient: a Bayesian Rejection-sampling Method for Quickly Fitting the Orbits of Long-period Exoplanets" Brown UG: Sarah Blunt
    • http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AJ....153..229B/abstract
  • "Kepler-1649b: An Exo-Venus in the Solar Neighborhood" UC Berkeley undergrad, Isabel Angelo
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017AJ....153..162A/abstract
  • "A Case for an Atmosphere on Super-Earth 55 Cancri e" UC Berkeley undergrad, Isabel Angelo
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017AJ....154..232A/abstract

• Resources:

  • Exoplanet data analysis in python: https://exoplanet.dfm.io/en/latest/

Readings by assigned week :

• Week1: Explanets Review, by Lee
• week2: "Life Outside the Solar System" by Su-Shu Huang
• Week3: An Earth-sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Cool Star (Quintana et al. 2014)
• Week4: Planet Size Distribution - Zeng (2019)
• Week5: Whistling Vivaldi - Imposter Syndrome
• Week6: No paper assigned this week.
• Week7: Transit Lightcurves of Artificial Objects - Arnold (2005)
• Week8: Imaging paper - TBD
• Week9: No group paper
• Week10: No group paper