Video tutorials
Together with a team at NASA Ames, I created a series of online videos designed to teach about planet detection, characterization, vetting and more. Many of the videos are accompanied by online coding notebooks that can be accessed via the Planet Hunters Coffee Chat website.
Lesson materials were planned and generated by myself and are free to use for educational purposes.
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Episode 1: Welcome to Planet Hunters Coffee Chat!
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Episode 2: What is the transit method and how is it used to find exoplanets?
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Episode 3: How can you look up target stars with MAST - the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes?
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Episode 4: How do you look up an exoplanet candidate with ExoFOP?
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Episode 5: What are the astronomy parameters in the SIMBAD Astronomical Database?
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Episode 6: How do you start using Jupyter Notebooks to find exoplanets?
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Episode 7: How do you plot NASA TESS data using Lightkurve?
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Episode 8: How do you make your data look beautiful using Lightkurve?
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Episode 9: How do I plot TESS data from multiple sectors?
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Episode 10: How do you use binning to get rid of scatter in data?
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Episode 11: What is phase folding and how can it help to find exoplanets?
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Episode 12: How can we determine the size of a planet we're looking at?
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Episode 13: How can you determine an exoplanet's orbital period?
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Episode 14: Why are transit shapes different?
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Episode 15: How do we rule out false positives using the background flux?
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Episode 16: How do we rule out false positives using target pixel files?
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Episode 17: How do we rule out false positives using centroid motion?
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Episode 18: How can the nearest neighbor stars tell you about systematics and asteroids?
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Episode 19: How can I use LATTE to rule out false positives?
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Episode 20: What does stellar variability look like for different types of stars?
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Episode 21: Halloween Special - Nora quizzes Kassie on astronomy abbreviations!
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Episode 22: How can we detect exoplanets using transit time variations?
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Episode 23: Guess the star! What causes these interesting light curves?
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Episode 24: Nora Eisner shares her science journey (podcast)
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Episode 25: Guess the star with Nora and Cole! What causes these interesting light curves?
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Episode 26: How do you look up an exoplanet candidate with exo.MAST?
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Episode 27: How do odd/even transits help rule out false positives?
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Episode 28: What is Box Least Squares (BLS) analysis and how is it used to find exoplanets?
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Episode 29: How do I download data vetting (DV) reports from exo.MAST and what do they mean?
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Episode 30: 7 steps to identify a good exoplanet candidate
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Episode 31: Guess the star is back! What causes these interesting light curves?
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Episode 32: First steps to finding a triple star system in TESS data (TIC 470710327 part 1)
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Episode 33: Next steps to finding a triple star system using radial velocity (TIC 470710327 part 2)
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Episode 34: How does a triple star system form? (TIC 470710327 part 3)
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Episode 35: Nora and Cole answer your questions about the triple star system (TIC 470710327 part 4)
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Episode 36: How will the triple star system evolve? (TIC 470710327 part 5)
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Episode 37: What does a star spot look like?
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Episode 38: How is radial velocity (RV) used to discover exoplanets?
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Episode 39: How do you estimate a star's mass and radius using asteroseismology?
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Episode 40: Determining the mass and radius of a transiting planet (TIC 55525572)
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