Click on the image of a transiting planet (HD209458b, 3.5 day period "hot Jupiter") to view the graph of 110+ extrasolar planets (distances, masses). See the whole site of Geoff Marcy's group of planet hunters in Berkeley . They have found most planets to date, but the European team of Michel Mayor in Geneva follows closely (in 1995 they've found the first exoplanet around a solar-type star, 51 Peg b).

UNDERGRADUATE  COURSE  INFORMATION

Title:       Planetary Systems (AI 1400)

Term: Fall 2004
Teacher: doc Pawel Artymowicz  (tel 08 5537-8549; pawel@astro.su.se)
Teaching Assistant: Magnus Galfalk  (tel. -8553; magnusg@astro.su.se)

Times of lectures : 10:15 am - 12:00 am (with a short break)
Place: Stockholm Observatory SCFAB (Albanova Ctr), 6th floor, seminar room C6:61
Dates of lectures:
October: 19 (Tue), 21 (Thu), 26 (Tue),  28(Thu)
November: 2(Tue),  4(Thu),  9 (Tue), 16*(Tue), 18(Thu), 23 (Tue), 25* (Thu), 30(Thu)
December: 7 (Tue) = Exam
  2 problem sessions: 13:15 - 15:15; their dates are denoted by * above

Dates/times of  2 laboratory excercises: to be arranged with the TA (teaching asst.)

Date of the final exam: 7 December (Tuesday), 10.00-12.30 and 13.15-14:45
Omtentamen (re-exam) about 10 days later.

Basic course reference: J. Kelly Beatty, C. Collins Petersen, A. Chaikin (Eds.), "The New Solar System" 4th Edition (important!) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999)
Notice, however, that at present, no appropriate textbook covering the whole course exists, so you will rely on your own notes from the lectures (including those things you decide to xerox from my viewgraphs), and some materials placed on these web pages in electronic form (scanned viewgraphs and pictures).

Many students have in the past asked me for precise guidance on which parts of this book to read. OK, please do pay attention to these chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. (no, just kidding!) Here it goes: * means especially recommended for the test.
2*, 5*, 6, 12*, 13, 14*, 15, 16*, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28*.
About a week before the exam I'll provide warm-up test questions of the type later asked (YES/NO questions).

Suggested additional reading includes:
o  Internet (we recommend www.google.com  to look for keywords; as well as the links below);
o  Stuart Ross Taylor, "Solar System Evolution", 2nd Edition, Cambridge U. Press, 2001 ;
o  Imke de Pater, Jack J. Lissauer "Planetary Sciences", Cambridge U. Press, 2001;
o  David Morrison, Tobias Owen "The Planetary System", 3rd Edition, Addison Wesley, 2003;
o  J. Benett, S. Shostak, B. Jakosky "Life in the Universe", Addison Wesley, 2003;

Course grading will be based on:
4 sets of homework problems posted on this page (20% of the total score),
the written exam (45% for problems, 35% for test = a large set of Yes/No questions).
>75% of the max score required for VG, >50% for G grade.
Lab exercises are required to be successfully done and described to TA's satisfaction.

SYLLABUS (TOPICS)

with some links to electronic materials

Note: topic numbers do not, in general,  coincide with lecture number.
  1. Gentle introduction to planetary systems

  2. Gravitational mechanics of planetary systems

  3. Formation od planetary systems

  4. Minor bodies of the Solar System

  5. Planetary interiors

  6. Surfaces of Solar System bodies

  7. Atmospheres

  8. Planetary rings

  9. Extrasolar planetary systems

  10. Astrobiology

        Problem set No. 1
        Problem set No. 2
        Problem set No. 3
        Problem set No. 4

    SAMPLE  EXAM

    Here you can see the text files with the final exam of the 2004 course (no solutions!): part I (Problems) and the part II (Test) .

    About the homework problems

    See a guide to the style of solutions of homework (also the exam) involving math  here.
    Please remember also to: staple together your homework or at least number the pages clearly and sign them with your name. Write legibly:  unusually messy homeworks will be returned to you. The usually-messy homeworks will be accepted but run the risk of being misunderstrood and/or underappreciated. Please give enough details of the solution procedure. It's as important as the correct final answer.
    Importantly, please keep a copy of your solutions for yourself  (you can use the Observatory copy machine for that). Many solutions will be discussed during the problem sessions. Finally, plan for a timely submission of solutions. Occasional delays will be tolerated, but very late submissions will earn little credit.

    Useful or just interesting links:

    1. Multimedia tour of the nine planets in our system
    2. Solar Views = more multimedia including some movies
    3. The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
    4. EU Research and Training Network (Stockholm Observatory is one of the nodes, cf below)
    5. Theory of Planetary Systems group page at our Observatory
    6. Giant Planets Orbiting Faraway Stars - an article by Geof Marcy and paul Butler
    7. Exploring New Worlds - an article by Ron Cowen
    8. The Swiss site about exoplanets
    9. A fantastic article-search astronomical database from Harvard
    10. Maps of our Solar System bodies
    11. Solar System Orery
    12. New STScI press releases
    13. STScI Digital Sky Survey search form. Input ANY object's designation to get coordinates and .GIF picture
    14. Migration Type III.  a talk by Pawel Artymowicz at:
    15. KITP/UCSB 2004 conference on Planet Formation (abstracts, streaming audio & video)

    The URL of this page is http://planets.utsc.utoronto.ca/~pawel/planetsys.html
    This way to the home page of the  Planet Formation group at the Stockholm Observ. at http://planets.utsc.utoronto.ca/~pawel/systems.html  
    This way to the home page of Pawel Artymowicz.