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Planets and ExoPlanets
Earth, as viewed by the Voyager spacecraft
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What does the solar system look like?
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• There are eight major planets with nearly circular orbits.
• Pluto and Eris are smaller than the major planets and have more elliptical orbits.
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What are the major features of the Sun and planets?
Sun and planets to scale
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• Over 99.9% of solar system’s mass• Made mostly of H/He gas (plasma)• Converts 4 million tons of mass into energy each second
Sun
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• Made of metal and rock; large iron core • Desolate, cratered; long, tall, steep cliffs• Very hot and very cold: 425C (day)–170C (night)
Mercury
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• Nearly identical in size to Earth; surface hidden by clouds • Hellish conditions due to an extreme greenhouse effect• Even hotter than Mercury: 470C, day and night
Venus
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• An oasis of life• The only surface liquid water in the solar system• A surprisingly large moon
Earth and Moon with sizes shown to scale
Earth
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• Looks almost Earth-like, but don’t go without a spacesuit!• Giant volcanoes, a huge canyon, polar caps, more• Water flowed in distant past; could there have been life?
Mars
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• Much farther from Sun than inner planets
• Mostly H/He; no solid surface
• 300 times more massive than Earth
• Many moons, rings
Jupiter
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Jupiter’s moons can be as interesting as planets themselves, especially Jupiter’s four Galilean moons.
• Io (shown here): active volcanoes all over• Europa: possible subsurface ocean• Ganymede: largest moon in solar system• Callisto: a large, cratered “ice ball”
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Saturn
• Giant and gaseous like Jupiter• Spectacular rings• Many moons, including cloudy Titan
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Rings are NOT solid; they are made of countless small chunks of ice and rock, each orbiting like a tiny moon.
Artist’s conception
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Cassini probe arrived July 2004 (launched in 1997).
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• Smaller than Jupiter/Saturn; much larger than Earth
• Made of H/He gas and hydrogen compounds (H2O, NH3, CH4)
• Extreme axis tilt• Moons and rings
Uranus
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• Similar to Uranus (except for axis tilt)
• Many moons (including Triton)
Neptune
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Pluto (and Other Dwarf Planets)
• Much smaller than major planets• Icy, comet-like composition• Pluto’s main moon (Charon) is of similar size
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Motion of Large Bodies
• All large bodies in the solar system orbit in the same direction and in nearly the same plane.
• Most also rotate in that direction.
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Two Major Planet Types
• Terrestrial planets are rocky, relatively small, and close to the Sun.
• Jovian planets are gaseous, larger, and farther from the Sun.
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Swarms of Smaller Bodies
• Many rocky asteroids and icy comets populate the solar system.
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Notable Exceptions
• Several exceptions to the normal patterns need to be explained.
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Why is it so difficult to detect planets around other stars?
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Brightness Difference
• A Sun-like star is about a billion times brighter than the light reflected from its planets.
• This is like being in San Francisco and trying to see a pinhead 15 meters from a grapefruit in Washington, D.C.
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Planet Detection
• Direct: pictures or spectra of the planets themselves
• Indirect: measurements of stellar properties revealing the effects of orbiting planets
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How do we detect planets around other stars?
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Gravitational Tugs
• The Sun and Jupiter orbit around their common center of mass.
• The Sun therefore wobbles around that center of mass with same period as Jupiter.
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Gravitational Tugs
• The Sun’s motion around the solar system’s center of mass depends on tugs from all the planets.
• Astronomers around other stars that measured this motion could determine the masses and orbits of all the planets.
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Astrometric Technique
• We can detect planets by measuring the change in a star’s position on sky.
• However, these tiny motions are very difficult to measure (~ 0.001 arcsecond).
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Doppler Technique
• Measuring a star’s Doppler shift can tell us its motion toward and away from us.
• Current techniques can measure motions as small as 1 m/s (walking speed!).
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First Extrasolar Planet
• Doppler shifts of the star 51 Pegasi indirectly revealed a planet with 4-day orbital period.
• This short period means that the planet has a small orbital distance.
• This was the first* extrasolar planet to be discovered (1995).
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First Extrasolar Planet
• The planet around 51 Pegasi has a mass similar to Jupiter’s, despite its small orbital distance.
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Other Extrasolar Planets
• Doppler shift data tell us about a planet’s mass and the shape of its orbit.
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Planet Mass and Orbit Tilt
• We cannot measure an exact mass for a planet without knowing the tilt of its orbit, because Doppler shift tells us only the velocity toward or away from us.
• Doppler data give us lower limits on masses.
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Transits and Eclipses
• A transit is when a planet crosses in front of a star.• The resulting eclipse reduces the star’s apparent
brightness and tells us planet’s radius.• No orbital tilt: accurate measurement of planet mass
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Spectrum During Transit
• Change in spectrum during a transit tells us about the composition of planet’s atmosphere.
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Surface Temperature Map
• Measuring the change in infrared brightness during an eclipse enables us to map a planet’s surface temperature.
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Direct Detection
• Special techniques like adaptive optics are helping to enable direct planet detection.
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Direct Detection
• Techniques that help block the bright light from stars are also helping us to find planets around them.
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Direct Detection
• Techniques that help block the bright light from stars are also helping us to find planets around them.
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Other Planet-Hunting Strategies
• Gravitational Lensing: Mass bends light in a special way when a star with planets passes in front of another star.
• Features in Dust Disks: Gaps, waves, or ripples in disks of dusty gas around stars can indicate presence of planets.
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What have we learned about extrasolar planets?
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Orbits of Extrasolar Planets
• Most of the detected planets have orbits smaller than Jupiter’s.
• Planets at greater distances are harder to detect with the Doppler technique.
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Orbits of Extrasolar Planets
• Orbits of some extrasolar planets are much more elongated (have a greater eccentricity) than those in our solar system.
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Multiple-Planet Systems
• Some stars have more than one detected planet.
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Orbits of Extrasolar Planets
• Most of the detected planets have greater mass than Jupiter.
• Planets with smaller masses are harder to detect with Doppler technique.
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Hot Jupiters
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Revisiting the Nebular Theory
• The nebular theory predicts that massive Jupiter-like planets should not form inside the frost line (at << 5 AU).
• The discovery of hot Jupiters has forced reexamination of nebular theory.
• Planetary migration or gravitational encounters may explain hot Jupiters.
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Planetary Migration
• A young planet’s motion can create waves in a planet-forming disk.
• Models show that matter in these waves can tug on a planet, causing its orbit to migrate inward.
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Orbital Resonances
• Resonances between planets can also cause their orbits to become more elliptical.
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Planets: Common or Rare?
• One in ten stars examined so far have turned out to have planets.
• The others may still have smaller (Earth-sized) planets that current techniques cannot detect.
• Kepler seems to indicate COMMON
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Transit Missions
• NASA’s Kepler mission was launched in 2008 to begin looking for transiting planets.
• It is designed to measure the 0.008% decline in brightness when an Earth-mass planet eclipses a Sun-like star.
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Astrometric Missions
• GAIA: a European mission planned for 2011 that will use interferometry to measure precise motions of a billion stars
• SIM: A NASA mission that will use interferometry to measure star motions even more precisely (to 10-6 arcseconds)
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Direct Detection• Determining whether
Earth-mass planets are really Earth-like requires direct detection.
• Missions capable of blocking enough starlight to measure the spectrum of an Earth-like planet are being planned.
Mission concept for NASA’sMission concept for NASA’sTerrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)