Date of Award

1-1-2018

Language

English

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

College/School/Department

Department of Physics

Content Description

1 online resource (ii, vi, 110 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Kevin H. Knuth

Committee Members

Ariel Caticha, Kevin H. Knuth, Oleg Lunin

Keywords

Extrasolar planets

Subject Categories

Physics

Abstract

The recent years have shed light on amazing new worlds across the galaxy. It has been demonstrated that the Solar System is only one of many other systems. The Kepler Space Observatory, which was launched by NASA in 2009, has greatly contributed to expand knowledge of exoplanets whose characteristics (how massive they are, their size, orbital period, temperature...) vary on a surprisingly large scale. As an example, the least massive exoplanet known today has twice the mass of the moon [1]. The most massive exoplanet has 29 times the mass of Jupiter [2]. Orbital periods of known planets vary between hours and thousands of years.

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