Exomoons to Galactic Structure

✍ Scribed by Supachai Awiphan

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Series: Springer Theses
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents three major studies covering exomoon and exoplanet detection and characterisation. Firstly, it reports the observations and analysis of the atmosphere of the hot Neptune GJ3470b, one of the lowest-mass planets with a measured atmosphere, using transmission spectroscopy techniques. The result provided improved measurements of Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere and the first limits on additional planetary companions in the system. The second part discusses modeling a Kepler-like satellite’s ability of a to detect exomoons by looking for transit timing variations and transit duration variations, demonstrating how exomoons can unambiguously be identified from such data.Lastly, the book examines the development of a state-of-the-art Galactic microlensing simulator, which has been made publicly available. It was used to compare with the largest published sample of microlensing events from the MOA-II survey.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi
Introduction (Supachai Awiphan)....Pages 1-4
Basic Theory Exoplanet Detection (Supachai Awiphan)....Pages 5-22
Transit Timing Variation and Transmission Spectroscopy Analyses of the Hot Neptune GJ3470b (Supachai Awiphan)....Pages 23-55
Detectability of Habitable Exomoons (Supachai Awiphan)....Pages 57-97
Microlensing Maps of the Galaxy (Supachai Awiphan)....Pages 99-133
Besançon Model Simulations of MOA-II (Supachai Awiphan)....Pages 135-182
Summary and Future Works (Supachai Awiphan)....Pages 183-185
Back Matter ....Pages 187-187

✦ Subjects

Physics; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques; Planetary Sciences; Astrobiology