AST6112: Planetary Astrophysics, University of Florida

Syllabus and General Information

Tentative Course Plan

Homework Set 1:

  1. Homework 1, #6 Figure
  2. Homework 1, #7 Figure

Homework Set 2:

  1. Homework 2 Solution

Exam 1 (Midterm):

  1. Midterm Solution

Exam 2 (Final):

  1. Final Solution

Feedback Form

Student-led Class Presentation Topics

  1. Student Presentation Feedback
  2. Student Presentation Slides

Proposal Writing Projects by Students

  1. Students’ review of proposals

Selected Class Slides:

  1. Migration
  2. Planet-planet and planet-planetesimal scattering
  3. Important points covered in class
  4. Meteorites
  5. Mercury & Venus Topics not Covered in Class
  6. Kepler planet candidates: property trends
  7. Migration movies, Scattering movies.
  8. Important points covered in class (midterm to final)
  9. Slides for guidance in proposal writing

Student forum for questions and answers

Useful materials and links:

  1. Armitage lecture notes. We will follow this in planet formation classes.
  2. NASA’s eyes
  3. Review on planetary migration: Lubow & Ida 2010
  4. Mean motion resonance and migration: Lee & Peale 2002
  5. Orbital resonances in the Solar system: Peale 1976
  6. Distant fate of the Sun-Earth system: Schroeder & Smith 2008
  7. Exoplanets.org
  8. Kepler data archive
  9. Nice model: Ford & Chiang 2007, Tsiganis et al. 2005, Morbidelli et al. 2007 a, b
  10. Grand Tack model: Walsh et al. 2011
  11. Sean Raymond’s webpage for movies.