Reading_list.md

Who needs a reading list? You do!:

Astronomers conduct much of their reading online, but a good collection of books is always nice to have.

• Astronomy

  • Exoplanet Atmospheres (Seager)
  • Exoplanets book.
  • Protostars and Planets
  • Small Exoplanets Occurrence and Envelope Structure(concise Review)
    • https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2960
  • Exoplanet Atmospheres Review:
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018arXiv180408149F/abstract
  • Planet formation of Super Earths, Review:
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018arXiv180203090S/abstract
  • Exoplanet Atomospheres at High Resolution
    • https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.04617.pdf
  • Exoplanet Discovery:
    • TRAPPIST discovery paper https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21360
    • early kepler discovery paper http://science.sciencemag.org/content/327/5968/977
    • exo-Earth discovery paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5667

• Statistics

  • Bevington
  • Baysian Statistics in Astronomy
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017ARA&A..55..213S/abstract

• Data Analysis and Tools

  • Python analysis book.

• Examples of undergrad research:

  • "A Search for Planets around Barnard's star" UC Berkeley undergrad, Jiuen Choi
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012AAS...21924504C/abstract
  • Systemic Radial Velocities for ~2000 Planet Search Stars, UC Berkeley undergrad: Carly Chubak
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012arXiv1207.6212C/abstract
  • "Detection of Stars within 0.8" of Kepler Objects of Interest" UC Berkeley undergrad: Rea Kolbl
    • https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.5259.pdf
  • "Precision Stellar Characterization of FGKM Stars using an Empirical Spectral Library" CalTech UG: Samuel Yee
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017ApJ...836...77Y/abstract
  • "HAT-P-11: Discovery of a Second Planet and a Clue to Understanding Exoplanet Obliquities" CalTech UG: Samuel Yee
    • "https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018AJ....155..255Y/abstract
  • "Orbits for the Impatient: a Bayesian Rejection-sampling Method for Quickly Fitting the Orbits of Long-period Exoplanets" Brown UG: Sarah Blunt
    • http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AJ....153..229B/abstract
  • "Kepler-1649b: An Exo-Venus in the Solar Neighborhood" UC Berkeley undergrad, Isabel Angelo
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017AJ....153..162A/abstract
  • "A Case for an Atmosphere on Super-Earth 55 Cancri e" UC Berkeley undergrad, Isabel Angelo
    • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017AJ....154..232A/abstract

• Resources:

  • Exoplanet data analysis in python: https://exoplanet.dfm.io/en/latest/