Timeline.md

Timeline for Summer 2019.

Week 1 (Group Leader: Howard) (week of June 11th)

• GitHub: Version Control, Cloning, Branching, Forking
• Unix primer: (cd, ls, ssh, emacs) (Google cloud instance)
• Coding programs: Textwrangler, PyCharm, or Atom.

Accounts needed:

• Github.com
• Google Drive (general gmail account)
• DropBox.com
• Overleaf.com
• Kaggle.com
• Papers and/or ADS experience (Building a library of papers)
• Piazza.com ( Course Q&A website)

Other topics:

• How to write a professional email.
• Make sure everyone has python installed.
• Effective Paper Reading

Paper of the week:

Exoplanets Review by Lee (2018). (link in Google Drive)

Week 2 (Group Leader: Howard, Ellie & Ryan) (week of June 18th)

• Python

• Ipython

• Jupyter

• Jupyter labs

• Pandas: (Leader: Ellie)

  • http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/10min.html

• Matplotlib:

  • https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/introductory/sample_plots.html#sphx-glr-tutorials-introductory-sample-plots-py

• How to effectively read a Scientific Paper

• Extras Numpy, Pandas, Gspread, reading in files, plotting (data discovery, bokeh), radvel,. Start planet fitting with fitting a sin wave, move to radvel Pandas: slicing datasets, SQL queries in python Plotting: linear vs log space

Paper of the week:

"Life Outside the Solar System" by Su-Shu Huang (Also in google drive https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v202/n4/pdf/scientificamerican0460-55.pdf

Week 3 Group Leader: Sarah & Alma (week of June 24th)

• GAIA and SQL interface (online Astronomy Archives)
  • Distances, Astronometry, Stellar Parameters
• NASA Exoplanet Archive
  • Download all of the Kepler transiting planets
    • Make histogram of planet radii
    • Make Orbital period vs Planet Radius plot

Paper of the week:

The Role of Identity in Astronomy: Article: Whistling Vivaldi (link in google drive)

Week 4 Group Leader: Sarah (week of July 2nd)

• Radvel:
• Beyond the radvel tutorial, do better to explain what is going on.
• Add more comments about basic python usage.

Paper of the week:

TBD

Week 5 Group Leader: Alma (week of July 9th)

• Build a website using wix.com (Leader: Alma)
  • What belongs on an academic website.
• make a CV using Overleaf.com

Paper of the week:

TBD

Week 6 Group Leader: Ellie (week of July 16th)

• TESS tutorial (Leader: Ellie)

  • Download TESS data
  • Identify planet Transit period

• Download Kepler photometric data Data: (optional)

  • For a Kepler tutorial, please see Intro2Astro 2018

Paper of the week:

An Earth-sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Cool Star (Quintana et al. 2014) http://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6181/277.full (Science Version) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.5667.pdf (ArXive Version, free)

Week 7 Group Leader: Ellie & Alma (week of July 23rd)

• Statistics: median/mean/mode leading into outlier rejection and uncertainty (Leader: Ellie)
• Photon Statistics: Detector noise and how to measure the strength of your detection
• An Introduction to the programming language R in discussing habitability.
  • Installing R (https://discuss.analyticsvidhya.com/t/how-to-run-r-on-jupyter-ipython-notebooks/5512/2)

Paper of the week:

An Earth-sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Cool Star (Quintana et al. 2014) http://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6181/277.full (Science Version) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.5667.pdf (ArXive Version, free)

Week 8 (Group Leader: ) (week of July 30th)

• High Resolution Spectra

  • examine many Keck/APF spectra: determine resolution
    • Give examples of low, medium and high resolution spectra.
  • Cross Correlation: What is it and what does it tell us
  • Determining Precise Radial Velocities.
  • (plot resolution as a function of wavelength), Use Haynes tutorial as a guide

• Continue discussion of Research topics.

Paper of the week:

Week 9 ( Group Leader: Sarah) (week of August 6th)

• Begin Final Project: Research Proposal
• Article Databases: ADS, Google Scholar, arXiv.org

Paper of the week:

Week 10 (Group Leader: All) (week of August 13th)

• Final Project: Research proposal discussion.

Other:

Papers: "Imaging Extrasolar Giant Planets" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.02731.pdf

Microlensing: Seager (in google drive).