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.
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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