orbital-mechanics-and-exoplanets

Module 2.2 - 16/07/2021

Orbital Mechanics and Exoplanets

Hrishabh Srivastava and Varun Kumar

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Orbital Mechanics Overview

1. History
2. Kepler's laws of planetary motion
3. Two body problem
4. Types of orbits
5. Orbital Maneuvers
6. Animating Hohmann transfer

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Exoplanets Overview

1. Exoplanets and their types
2. Why exoplanets?
3. Methods of Detection
4. Famous Missions
5. NASA Exoplanet Archive
6. Gaia Data Release

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Programs

• Python code for sine animation
• Python code for spiral animation

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Plots

• Animation of Sine function

  

• Spiral animation

  

• Hohmann transfer trajectory animation

  

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Resources

Slides and Notes

• Slides for Orbital Mechanics
• Slides for Exoplanets
• NASA Exoplanet Archive notebook
• Gaia DR2 and ADQL

References

• Matplotlib animation tutorial
• matplotlib.animation
• matplotlib.animation.FuncAnimation
• Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students, Howard D. Curtis
• Eyes on Exoplanets
• What are Exoplanets?
• ADQL Reference
• NASA Exoplanet Archive
• Gaia Archive