Timeline.md

Timeline for Summer 2021. June 14th - August 6th

Week 1. Group Leaders: TBD (week of June 14th)

• 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: TBD) (week of June 21st)

• Pandas: (Leader: TBD)

  • 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:

"Life Outside the Solar System" by Su-Shu Huang (Also in google drive) https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v202/n4/pdf/scientificamerican0460-55.pdf

Week 3 Group Leader: TBD (week of June 28th)

• 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:

An Earth-sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Cool Star (Quintana et al. 2014) http://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6181/277.full (Science Version) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.5667.pdf (ArXive Version, free)

Week 4 Group Leader: TBD (week of July 5th)

• TESS tutorial (Leader: TBD)

  • 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:

Zeng (2019), link in Google Drive.

Week 5 Group Leader: TBD (week of July 12th)

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

Paper of the week:

The Role of Identity in Astronomy: Article: Whistling Vivaldi (link in google drive)

Week 6 Group Leader: TBD (week of July 19th)

• 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

Paper of the week:

No paper assigned this week.

Week 7 Group Leader: TBD (week of July 26th)

• SETI (Searching for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)
• Statistics: median/mean/mode leading into outlier rejection and uncertainty (Leader: TBD)
• Photon Statistics: Detector noise and how to measure the strength of your detection
• Website Review.
• CV review will take place offline.

Paper of the week:

Arnold (2005), https://www.pnas.org/content/116/20/9723, Also available in Google Drive.

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

• Advanced Overleaf, Advanced LaTex
• Continue discussion of Research topics.
• Paper Discussion.
• Final Project due by Aug 6th.