Subject: An introduction to extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs

lecturer: Jan Budaj
affiliation: Astronomical institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences
            Tatranska Lomnica

Course: PhD level, fall term, 2 hpw, 24 hours total 
Language: slides and presentation in English
School: Faculty of Mathematic, Physics and Informatics, 
        Commenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

SYLLABUS:

1. Introduction
2. Extrasolar planets
2.1. Basic terms, definitions, and effects
        -albedo
        -temperature of the planet
        -habitable zone
	-greenhouse effect
        -Rayleigh scattering
        -Kepler laws
        -tides, transfer of the angular momentum
        -Roche limit
        -Roche potential, Hill sphere
        -Jacobi constant, Tisserand invariant, Kozai mechanism
        -reflection effect
2.2. Solar system planets
2.3. History, cosmic missions
2.4. Methods of the detection of exoplanets
        -radial velocities
        -planetary transits
        -timing
        -microlensing
        -imaging
        -astrometry
        -planet induced stellar variability
        -Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
2.5. Properties of exoplanets
2.6. Interior, formation, and evolution
        -formation and migration
        -degenerate gas
        -diffusion approximation and radiative gradient
        -convection
        -equations of the internal structure
        -radii: theory vs. observations
2.7. Atmospheres
        -convection, HE, RE, day-night heat transfer
        -LTE, LCE, chemistry of low temperatures
	-dust, clouds, rain-out, optical properties
        -classification I-V
        -transits and transit radius spectrum
        -secondary eclipses
        -stratosheres, phase light curves
        -bifurcation and grey atmosphere
2.8. Interesting and exo-'tic' objects

3. Brown dwarfs
3.1. History, definition, observations, properties
3.2. Spectral classification (M,L,T,Y)
3.3  Formation, young brown dwarfs, magnetosheric accretion
3.4. Interior and evolution
3.5. Atmospheres
3.6. Interesting brown dwarfs


Literature:

latest articles in the field

Perryman, M. 2018, The exoplanet handbook, 2nd edition
(Cambridge Univ. Press)

Heng, K. 2017, Exoplanetary Atmospheres, 
Princeton Univ. Press, ISBN: 978-0-691-16698-8 

Cassen, P., Guillot, T., Quirrenbach, A., 2006,
Extrasolar Planets: Saas Fee Advanced Course 31
(Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
450p, Hardcover, pre grad studentov, vyskumnikov)
ISBN: 978-3-540-29216-6, 75 Euro

Seager, S., 2010, Exoplanets
(Univ. of Arizona Press, hard cover, 626p)

B.W. Carroll, D.A. Ostlie, 1996, 2006, 
Introduction to modern astrophysics, 1st, 2nd issue

N.I. Reid, S.L. Hawley, 2005,
New light on dark stars: red dwarfs, low mas stars, brown dwarfs
(560p, Springer, 2nd issue)
ISBN-10: 3540251243, ISBN-13: 978-3540251248.