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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics has just been announced, with one half going to the first discovery of an exoplanet around a Sun-like star. Here’s our brief take on why this is great news for those who love planets.
Presented by Prof. David Kipping. All planetary images and videos shown are artistic representations.
References:
► Mayor & Queloz, 1995, "A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star", Nature, 378, 355: nature.com/articles/378355a0
► Latham et al., 1989, "The unseen companion of HD114762: a probable brown dwarf", Nature, 339, 38: nature.com/articles/339038a0
► Campbell, Walker & Yang, 1988, "A Search for Substellar Companions to Solar-type Stars", ApJ, 331, 902: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988ApJ...331..902C/abstract
► Hatzes &Cochran, 1993, "Long-Period Radial Velocity Variations in Three K Giants", ApJ, 413, 339: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993ApJ...413..339H/abstract
► Wolszczan & Frail, 1992, "A planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257+12", Nature, 355, 145
Video materials and graphics used:
► GJ 357 animations by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13266
► Trappist-1 animation by ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org: eso.org/public/videos/eso1706h
Music used, in chronological order:
► Music from Neptune Flux, "We Were Never Meant to Live Here" by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/neptuneflux/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
► Cylinder Two (http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders) by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
► "Sad Game Boy" by Mikey Geiger, licensed through SoundStripe.com: app.soundstripe.com/songs/6347
And also...
► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu
► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu
Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds
Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch
Cool Worlds Long Form Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsEssays
Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests
Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA
Tabby's Star ► http://bit.ly/TabbysStar
Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies
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THANKS FOR WATCHING!!
#NobelPrize #Exoplanets #CoolWorlds
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics has just been announced, with one half going to the first discovery of an exoplanet around a Sun-like star. Here’s our brief take on why this is great news for those who love planets.
Presented by Prof. David Kipping. All planetary images and videos shown are artistic representations.
References:
► Mayor & Queloz, 1995, "A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star", Nature, 378, 355: nature.com/articles/378355a0
► Latham et al., 1989, "The unseen companion of HD114762: a probable brown dwarf", Nature, 339, 38: nature.com/articles/339038a0
► Campbell, Walker & Yang, 1988, "A Search for Substellar Companions to Solar-type Stars", ApJ, 331, 902: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988ApJ...331..902C/abstract
► Hatzes &Cochran, 1993, "Long-Period Radial Velocity Variations in Three K Giants", ApJ, 413, 339: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993ApJ...413..339H/abstract
► Wolszczan & Frail, 1992, "A planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257+12", Nature, 355, 145
Video materials and graphics used:
► GJ 357 animations by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13266
► Trappist-1 animation by ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org: eso.org/public/videos/eso1706h
Music used, in chronological order:
► Music from Neptune Flux, "We Were Never Meant to Live Here" by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/neptuneflux/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
► Cylinder Two (http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders) by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
► "Sad Game Boy" by Mikey Geiger, licensed through SoundStripe.com: app.soundstripe.com/songs/6347
And also...
► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu
► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu
Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds
Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch
Cool Worlds Long Form Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsEssays
Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests
Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA
Tabby's Star ► http://bit.ly/TabbysStar
Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies
SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe
THANKS FOR WATCHING!!
#NobelPrize #Exoplanets #CoolWorlds
