Syllabus,+Exoplanets

Radial velocities, Transits, Direct Imaging, Astrometry, Microlensing. Limits/Biases of methods. Masses, Semi-major axes, Eccentricities, Radii. Proposed classification schemes. Solar System planets: Gas Giants, Ice Giants, Terrestrial Planets. Ice line. Extrasolar: Comparison to Solar System: Core Accretion versus Gravitational Instability. Structural Evolution: Cooling, response to irradiation, Phase Transitions (e.g. He rain in Saturn). Dynamical Evolution: Outward migration in the solar system, Inward migration for Hot Jupiters, Tidal effects. Signatures of Evolution: Debris disks, both as IR excesses and dynamically sculpted rings. Possible consequences of stellar evolution for planetary systems. Fundamentals: Gravitational Focussing, Hill sphere, Resonances, Secular Perturbations, Tides. Hydrostatic Equilbrium, Equations of State for Planets, Thermal Evolution. Solar System probes of atmospheric structure. Exoplanet investigations - transit absorption spectra; secondary eclipse emission spectra. Relationship between planets and smaller bodies (asteroid and comet belts; trojans, irregular satellites). Nice model as an example of comprehensive synthesis. Definition of habitable zone and its uncertainties. Habitability around different kinds of stars.
 * Detection:
 * Statistics:
 * Formation:
 * Evolution:
 * Dynamics:
 * Interior structure:
 * Atmosphere:
 * Solar System:
 * Habitability:

Relevant textbooks: -Astrophysics of Planet Formation, Phil Armitage, Cambridge University Press, 2010 -Murray and Dermott, Solar System Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, 1999 -Protostars and Planets III, IV, V, University of Arizona Press