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A Bayesian Approach to the Understanding of Exoplanet Populations and the Origin of Life.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	A Bayesian Approach to the Understanding of Exoplanet Populations and the Origin of Life./
作者:	Chen, Jingjing.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
面頁冊數:	207 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-05B.
標題:	Astronomy. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10974655
ISBN:	9780438569584

A Bayesian Approach to the Understanding of Exoplanet Populations and the Origin of Life.
Chen, Jingjing.

A Bayesian Approach to the Understanding of Exoplanet Populations and the Origin of Life. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 207 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The study of extrasolar planets, or exoplanets for short, has developed rapidly over the last decade. While we have spent much effort building both ground-based and space telescopes to search for exoplanets, it is even more important that we use the observational data wisely to understand them. Exoplanets are of great interest to both astronomers and the general public because they have shown varieties of characteristics that we couldn't have anticipated from planets within our Solar System. To properly analyze the exoplanet populations, we need the tools of statistics. Therefore, in Chapter 1, I describe the science background as well as the statistical methods which will be applied in this thesis. In Chapter 2, I discuss how to train a hierarchical Bayesian model in detail to fit the relationship between masses and radii of exoplanets and categorize exoplanets based on that. A natural application that comes with the model is to use it for future observations of mass/radius and predict the other measurement. Thus I will show two application cases in Chapter 3. Composition of an exoplanet is also very much constrained by its mass and radius. I will show an easy way to constrain the composition of exoplanets in Chapter 4 and discuss how more complicated methods can be applied in future works. Of even greater interest is whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe. Although the future discovery of extraterrestrial life might be totally a fluke, a clear sketched plan always gives us some directions. Research in this area is still very preliminary. Fortunately, besides directly searching for extraterrestrial life, we can also apply statistical reasoning to first estimate the rate of abiogenesis, which will give us some clue on the question of whether there is extraterrestrial life in a probabilistic way. In Chapter 5, I will discuss how different methods can constrain the abiogenesis rate in an informatics perspective. Finally I will give a brief summary in Chapter 6.

ISBN: 9780438569584Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Astronomy.

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