PH Coffee Chat

Short tutorial notebooks made to be used alongside the Planet Hunters Coffee Chat videos.

Planet Hunters Coffee chat aims to make exoplanet science more accessible to the public. It is predominantly a video series where we show how to access and use various exoplanet tools. All notebooks are also available as Colab notebooks.

For more information please visit our website: www.planethunters.coffee or watch the videos at https://www.youtube.com/planethunterscoffee

All Colab versions of these notebooks can be found at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/118XpytOcsEP8X1o_Q_DfNKX6frleA0l7?usp=sharing.

The video series currently consist of:

• Introduction

  1. Meet Kassie and Nora
  2. What is a light curve?

• Resources

  1. Finding data on the MAST archive
  2. Looking up candidates on ExoFOP
  3. Find out what SIMBAD is used for

• Intro to coding with LightKurve

  1. Getting started wit Notebooks
  2. Plotting data using LightKurve
  3. Enhancing a figure using LightKurve
  4. Plotting multiple sectors of TESS data
  5. Binning data
  6. Phase folding

• Exoplanet properties

  1. How can we determine the size of the planet?
  2. How can we determine the orbital period?
  3. What can we learn from the transit shape?

• False positives

  1. Background flux
  2. Target Pixel Files
  3. Centroid Positions