Resources

Relevant Papers

• Barnes et al. 2019: VPLanet: The Virtual Planet Simulator

• Baraffe et al. 2015: New evolutionary models for pre-main sequence and main sequence low-mass stars down to the hydrogen-burning limit

• Fleming et al. 2019: On The XUV Luminosity Evolution of TRAPPIST-1

• Birky et al. 2021: Improved Constraints for the XUV Luminosity Evolution of Trappist-1

• Johnstone et al. 2020: The active lives of stars: a complete description of rotation and XUV evolution of F, G, K, and M dwarfs

• Barnes et al. (In prep): History and Habitability of the LP 890-9 Planetary System

• Gibor Basri (book): An Introduction to Stellar Magnetic Activity

Presentations

• Introduction to the REU (Rory’s talk 6/17): [slides]

• Planetary Evolution and Habitability (Rory’s talk 6/17): [slides]

• Stellar Evolution (Jess’s talk 6/17): [slides]

• Intro to alabi talk: [slides]

• XUV evolution of Trappist-1 (Cool Stars 21 conference poster): [poster]

Tools/Links

These are various tools I use on a daily basis for my research:

• zotero - literature/citation manager application

• zotero browswer connector - web browser extension (for firefox, chrome, safari, edge) that automatically downloads papers on your current browser page to your zotero application

• simbad - database of astronomical objects where you can search for data on particular objects

• arxiv - browse recently published papers in astronomy

• ads search - search for papers by author, year, journal, etc.

• astrobites - summaries of papers written at an undergrad level

• vscode - code editor

• Github copilot - AI chat/pair programmer for vs code

Scientific computing workshop

• Notebooks from Rudy’s scientific computing workshop: https://github.com/jbirky/yupra/tree/main/workshop

• Additional software carpentry tutorials: https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/

Links to code docs

• vplanet

• vplanet_inference

• alabi

• dynesty

• emcee

• astropy