1. Peter Wheatley (PS009) p.j.wheatley@warwick.ac.uk
PX437 EXOPLANETS
Peter Wheatley (PS009)

2. Outline Before Exoplanets Detecting exoplanets Planet Formation
Direct imaging
Reflex Motion of Star
Transiting exoplanets
Planet Formation
Extra-Terrestial Life

3. IAU Asteroid belt Kuiper belt Terrestrial planets Gas giants
Ice giants
IAU

4. Planets, dwarf planets, small solar-system bodies
Ceres: dwarf planet
Typical asteroid:
small solar-system body
HST

5. Evolutionary tracks Burrows et al. 1997, ApJ 491, 856 Stars Brown
dwarfs
Planets
Jupiter
Saturn
Evolutionary tracks

6. Composition of the giant planets
Stevenson 1982 AREPS 10, 257

7. Tidal model
Stephen Oxley

8. Discovery of debris around Vega
Observed IR spectrum with 10,000 K black body subtracted
IRAS observation:
Temperature ~ 85 K
Extent ~ 20 arcsec ~ 85 AU
Aumann et al. 1984, ApJL 278, 23

10. Imaging of the debris disc around beta Pictoris
Smith & Terrile 1984,
Science 266, 1421
HST

11. Protoplanetary discs in Orion with HST
McCaughrean & O’Dell 1996
AJ 111, 1977
Protoplanetary discs in Orion with HST

13. Debris discs around white dwarf stars
Gaensicke et al. 2006, Science 314, 1908
MgII
FeII
CaII

14. Debris discs around white dwarf stars
Rin  0.7R
Rout  1.2R
e  0.02

15. Debris discs around white dwarf stars
Rin  0.7R
Rout  1.2R
e  0.02

16. Debris discs around white dwarf stars
Rin  0.7R
Rout  1.2R
e  0.02