48: Wobbly Stars & Exoplanets

Syzygy is all about Emily this week, as her own field of asteroseismology comes to the fore: turns out, wobbly stars can tell us a lot about exoplanets! Studying starquakes can improve our knowledge of the mass and orbit of exoplanets by an astounding amount. Sadly, not all stars wobble in just the right ways, so the hunt is on for bigger and better models and methods ...

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Things we talked about in this episode:

The Podcast Social Club — Nov 22-23

Hot Neptune Desert

Forbidden Planets

Fulton Gap

Exoplanet sizes

Impossible planets

Solar oscillation movies