Pioneer Planet Hunters
Event Date:
2020-01-09T16:00:00
2020-01-09T17:00:00
Event Location:
Hennings 201
Speaker:
Gordon Walker
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Intended Audience:
Undergraduate
Local Contact:
Douglas Scott
Event Information:
The partial award of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of exoplanets culminates four remarkable decades of search and development. While astrometry proved fruitless, stellar radial acceleration measurements of high precision revealed reflex motions induced by planetary companions. The UBC group was the first to demonstrate the power of imposed wavelength fiducials in 1979. This encouraged others to join the search – everyone was looking for solar system analogues. The Swiss turned up the first of many, unanticipated `Hot Jupiters’ in few day orbits. I shall review some of the remarkable history, challenges and prior discoveries.
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2020-01-09T16:00:00
2020-01-09T17:00:00
Pioneer Planet Hunters
Event Information:
The partial award of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of exoplanets culminates four remarkable decades of search and development. While astrometry proved fruitless, stellar radial acceleration measurements of high precision revealed reflex motions induced by planetary companions. The UBC group was the first to demonstrate the power of imposed wavelength fiducials in 1979. This encouraged others to join the search – everyone was looking for solar system analogues. The Swiss turned up the first of many, unanticipated `Hot Jupiters’ in few day orbits. I shall review some of the remarkable history, challenges and prior discoveries.
Event Location:
Hennings 201