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Programma di Exoplanets:

Introduction: Drake’s equation - Historical remarks - Notation for star and planet parameters - Definition of a planet - Planet categories - Planet classification - Habitable zone   Planet formation and evolution: Core-accretion model - Disk-instability model - Disk evolution - Planet migration   Radial velocity: Discrete Fourier transform - Lomb-Scargle periodogram - Data fitting - Stellar noise - Jitter - Searched and surveys - Results   Astrometry: Relative astrometry - Absolute astrometry - Astrometry from space - Gaia assessment and first results   Timing: Periodic time signature - Time standards - Pulsars - Pulsating stars - Eclipsing binaries   Microlensing: Principles of gravitational lensing – The lens equation – Magnification - Light curves – Single-lens modelling – Microlensing observations - Critical curves - Caustics - Early microlensing surveys - Binary-lens modelling - Generalised lens equation - Binary-lens topologies - Planet detection - High magnification events - Higher-order effects - Microlensing parallax - Observations from space - Discoveries - Statistical results - Free-floating planets   Direct imaging: Principles – Atmospheric effects - Coronographic masks - Ground-based imaging instruments – Space-based imaging instruments - Surveys and discoveries   Transits: Introduction and historical remarks – Wide-angle transit searches - Specific-target transit searches - The small star opportunity - Ground-based surveys - Searches from space - Photometric accuracy - Candidate confirmation - Light curve - Photometric parameters - Modelling - Transit probability - Physical quantities - Host-star characterization - High-order photometric effects - Starspots - Grazing transits - Tidal disruption - Rossiter- McLaughlin effect - Spin-orbit alignment - Transit-time variations   Atmospheres: Atmosphere chemical composition and structure - cloud and hazes - Atmospheric dynamics and escape - Transit and eclipse spectroscopy - Ground-bases and space results
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