Lectures related to Signal of the Day: Exoplanet Hunting

Hubble Space Telescope: Astronomy and Outreach

Explores the Hubble Space Telescope's impact on astronomy and the public through outreach efforts.

Modern Cosmology: Observatories and Instruments

Explores the effects of COVID-19 on observatories, focusing on ESO and JWST.

Neutrino and gravitational wave telescopes

Explains the operation of neutrino and gravitational wave telescopes, global astronomy events, and the solar neutrino problem.

Pioneers in Astronomy and Rocket Science

Covers the pioneers in astronomy and rocket science who shaped our understanding of celestial mechanics and propelled us into space.

Astrophysical Objects: Static Systems

Explores spherically symmetric and static astrophysical objects, including black holes and the modeling of matter.

Multi-stage Data Analyses in Astronomy

Explores multi-stage data analyses in astronomy, focusing on challenges, Bayesian statistics, and adaptive data collection.

Exoplanets

Explores the definition, formation, discovery methods, and search for life of exoplanets, including the history of discoveries and the Drake Equation.

MHD Turbulence and Dynamo Instabilities

Explores observational facts and the need for dynamos in generating magnetic fields.

Introduction to Astrophysics: Concepts and Observations

Explores physical concepts in astrophysics and their interpretation of observations from telescopes.

Photon Propagation: Light and Spectra

Explores photon propagation, light emission and reception, energy, spectra, flux, intensity, Doppler and red-shift, and universe expansion.

Radiation Detection in Space: Near Infrared Camera of JWST

Explores radiation detection in space, focusing on the JWST's near infrared camera.

Energy Balance of Planets

Explores the energy balance of planets, emphasizing the Earth's factors affecting its overall energy equilibrium.

Hubble's Universe: Redshift and Distance

Delves into the universe's evolution using Hubble's observations and concepts like redshift, distance measurement, Cepheid stars, and supernovae.

Space Mission Design and Operations: JWST

Covers the James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021 to study distant objects and exoplanets from a halo orbit around the L2 Lagrange point.

Geocentric vs Heliocentric Models

Compares the geocentric and heliocentric models of the universe proposed by Ptolemy and Copernicus.

Extrinsic Variable Stars

Covers extrinsic stellar variability, the history of double stars, microlensing, and extrasolar planet detection.

Radio Interferometry: The Universe At Radio Wavelengths

Explores radio interferometry, MeerKAT telescope, imaging vs. single measurement, and Fourier transform in radio astronomy.

Gravitational Waves: History and Detection

Explores the history, detection, and significance of gravitational waves, covering key experiments and projects in gravitational wave astronomy.

Hubble's Observations: Redshift and Distance

Explores Hubble's observations of the early universe, redshift, cepheid stars, and type Ia supernovae.

The Matter Content in the Universe

Explores the matter content in the universe, including dark matter mapping and exo-planets exploration.