Displaying 1 of 1 2015 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: The search for exoplanets : what astronomers know / Professor Joshua N. Winn, Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2015] ©2015 Description: 4 videodiscs (720 min.) DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (v, 175 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) Series: Great courses. Science & Mathematics : Astronomy Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Subjects: Astronomy. Extrasolar planets. Life on other planets. Galaxies. Planets. Cosmology. Genre: Filmed lectures. Science films. Educational films. Nonfiction films. Other Author: Winn, Joshua author, speaker. Teaching Company, production company. Notes: Title from disc label. 24 lectures (30 minutes each). "Course no. 1802"--Container. Couse guidebook includes bibliographical references. Lecturer: Professor Joshua N. Winn, Massachussetts Institute of Technology. DVD. Contents: Why study exoplanets? -- How to find an exoplanet -- Doppler and transit planet-finding methods -- Pioneers of planet searching -- Misplaced giant planets -- Explaining the misplaced giant planets. Disc 2. Transits of exoplanets -- Shifing planetary atmospheres -- Stellar rotation and planetary revolution -- Super-Earth or mini-Neptures? -- Transiting planets and the Kepler Mission -- Compact multiplanet systems. Disc 3. Planets circling two stars -- Lava worlds -- Earthlike planets -- Living with a dwarf star -- Living with a giant star -- Our nearest exoplanetary neighbors. Disc 4. Finding planets with gravitational lensing -- Finding planets with direct imaging -- Near-term future planet-finding projects -- Long-term future planet-finding projects -- Search for life on exoplanets -- Coming soon: Biosignatures, Moons, and more! ISBN: 9781629972039 1629972037 Publisher Number: ID1802A-01 PB1802A 1802 Other Number: 926752853 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 556559 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: GREAT DVD 523.24 Search f Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
