Suggested Text Book: Solar System Dynamics, Murray & Dermott, 1999
Syllabus
1. Introduction, exoplanetary dynamics
2-body motion
Solar system structure - brief view, orbit in plane, orbit in space
2. 3-body problem
restricted, coplanar, 3-body problem
3-6. N-body dynamics
Numerical methods
Analytic methods
Secular motion
Resonant and near-resonant motion
7. Exoplanet detection methods
Transits, RV, and other methods
8. Transit Variations
TTV due to near-resonant interactions
9. Additional Transit Variations
Impact parameter, degeneracies,
10-11. Tides and rotational deformation
Planetary deformation, dissipation mechanisms
12-13. Exoplanets population from a dynamics point of view
Hot Jupiters, radius gap, Neptune desert, period ratio distribution, resonant repulsion, USPs, fingerprints of dissipation