Timeline.md

Timeline for Summer 2022. June 13th - August 5th

Week 1. Group Leaders: Chetan, Maria, Tim, Jack

• GitHub: Version Control, git-clone vs downloading repositories.
• Unix primer: (cd, ls, ssh, emacs) (Google cloud instance)
• Coding programs: Textwrangler, PyCharm, Atom, or Sublime Text.

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

Part II of Week 1.

• Python
• Ipython
• Jupyter
• Jupyter labs

Part III of Week 1.

How to read a research paper.

Paper of the week:

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

Week 2 (Group Leader: Shubh, Hrishabh, Priya, Tim) (week of June 20th)

• Pandas:

  • 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

• 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:

Paper on Proxima b https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1706680114

Week 3 Group Leader: Priya, Chetan, Jack, Maria (week of June 27th)

• 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

• This week offers an extra project involving SETI and Gaia queries.

  • https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.03503.pdf
  • This includes an opportunity to be on a research paper.

Paper of the week:

Exoplanet Size Distribution https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04253

Week 4 Group Leader: Sam, Maria, Anamitra, Priya (week of July 4th)

• TESS tutorial

  • Download TESS data

  • Extra Credit For a Kepler tutorial, please see Intro2Astro 2018

  • Identify planet Transit period

• Linear Fitting, Chi-squared.

Paper of the week:

James Webb Space Telescope and Exoplanets https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20180004151/downloads/20180004151.pdf

Week 5 Group Leader: Himanshu, Jared, Fei, Sam (week of July 11th)

• Build a website using wix.com (Leader: TBD)
  • What belongs on an academic website.
  • Alternate methods: google sites. github sites.
• make a CV using Overleaf.com
• Website Review.
• CV review will take place offline.

Paper of the week:

Paper on Planet Geology

Week 6 Group Leader: Caitlin (week of July 18th)

*Discussion on Planet Geology

Paper of the week:

Planet Imaging paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.02031.pdf

Week 7 Group Leader: Jared, Fei, Shubh (week of July 25th)

• RadVel - Fitting Radial Velocities.
• Additional Fitting methods.
• Final Project

Paper of the week:

No paper assigned, focus on final project

Week 8. Group Leader: TBD, (week of August 2nd, Final day of program is Aug 6th)

• REU Opportunities avaiable
• Final Project due by Aug 6th.