AIP congratulates James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz on being named the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics "for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos." Peebles receives one half of the prize "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology" and Mayor and Queloz share one half "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star."
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From the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
Statement from Megan Donahue (Michigan State University), AAS President
"Astronomers — maybe especially those of us in physics departments! — were delighted to hear that astrophysics has once again been recognized and graced with the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics going to three of our own. Jim Peebles, a well-respected member of the AAS and 1993 recipient of our Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, is well-known to many of us. His lectures and books introduced several generations of astronomers to the concepts underlying our current framework for understanding large-scale structure and dark matter. Michel Mayor, elected an honorary AAS member in 2015, and Didier Queloz opened whole new worlds to astronomers with their discovery of the first exoplanet around a star like our own. We are delighted for these scientists."
ARTICLES BY JAMES PEEBLES
Fluid Dark Matter
P.J.E. Peebles, 2000 ApJ 534 L127
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/312677
Interacting Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Glennys R. Farrar and P.J.E. Peebles, 2004 ApJ 604 1
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/381728
The Cosmic Energy Inventory
Masataka Fukugita and P.J.E. Peebles, 2004 ApJ 616 643
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/425155
Massive Coronae of Galaxies
Masataka Fukugita and P.J.E. Peebles, 2006 ApJ 639 590
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/499556
A Primeval Magellanic Stream and Others
P.J.E. Peebles and R. Brent Tully, 2013 ApJ 778 137
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/778/2/137
ARTICLES BY MICHEL MAYOR AND DIDIER QUELOZ
Eccentricity versus Mass for Low-Mass Secondaries and Planets
Tsevi Mazeh, Michel Mayor, and David W. Latham, 1997 ApJ 478 367
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/303776
Detection of Planetary Transits Across a Sun-like Star
David Charbonneau, Timothy M. Brown, David W. Latham, and Michel Mayor, 2000 ApJ 529 L45
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/312457
The Spectroscopic Orbit of the Planetary Companion Transiting HD 209458
Tsevi Mazeh et al, 2000 ApJ 532 L55
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/312558
New Low-mass Eclipsing Binary Systems in Praesepe Discovered by K2
Edward Gillen, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Trevor J. David, Suzanne Aigrain, Luisa Rebull, John Stauffer, Ann Marie Cody, and Didier Queloz, 2017 ApJ 849 11
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aa84b3
The Kepler-10 Planetary System Revisited by HARPS-N: A Hot Rocky World and a Solid Neptune-Mass Planet
Xavier Dumusque et al, 2014 ApJ 789 154
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/789/2/154
The Broadband Infrared Emission Spectrum of the Exoplanet HD 189733b
David Charbonneau, Heather A. Knutson, Travis Barman, Lori E. Allen, Michel Mayor, S. Thomas Megeath, Didier Queloz, and Stéphane Udry, 2008 ApJ 686 1341
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/591635
The Mass of Kepler-93b and The Composition of Terrestrial Planets
Courtney D. Dressing et al, 2015 ApJ 800 135
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/800/2/135
Characterizing K2 Planet Discoveries: A Super-Earth Transiting the Bright K Dwarf HIP 116454
Andrew Vanderburg et al, 2015 ApJ 800 59
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/800/1/59
From the American Physical Society (APS)
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics
The cosmological constant and dark energy
P. J. E. Peebles and Bharat Ratra
Rev. Mod. Phys. 75, 559 – Published 22 April 2003
https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.75.559
Cosmological consequences of a rolling homogeneous scalar field
Bharat Ratra and P. J. E. Peebles
Phys. Rev. D 37, 3406 – Published 15 June 1988
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.37.3406
Primeval Helium Abundance and the Primeval Fireball
P. J. E. Peebles
Phys. Rev. Lett. 16, 410 – Published 7 March 1966
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.16.410
From The Optical Society (OSA)
James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz Awarded 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics
From The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
Exoplanet Atmospheres: A Digi Kit for Introductory Astronomy
ARTICLES BY JAMES PEEBLES
Cosmology for Everyphysicist
P. J. E. Peebles
American Journal of Physics 37, 410 (1969)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1975596
Principles of Physical Cosmology
P. J. E. Peebles and Edward Harrison
American Journal of Physics 62, 381 (1994)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17585
Cosmology and Newtonian Mechanics
C. Callan, R. H. Dicke, and P. J. E. Peebles
American Journal of Physics 33, 105 (1965)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1971256
PAPERS RELATED TO EXOPLANETS
Resource Letter Exo-1: Exoplanets
Michael Perryman
American Journal of Physics 82, 552 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4830455
Using online telescopes to explore exoplanets from the physics classroom
Roy R. Gould and Susan Sunbury
American Journal of Physics 80, 445 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3671072
Exoplanet Science in the Classroom: Learning Activities for an Introductory Physics Course
Devin Della-Rose, Randall Carlson, Kimberly de La Harpe, Steven Novotny and Daniel Polsgrove
The Physics Teacher 56, 170 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5025299
Using Real Data from the Kepler Mission to Find Potentially Habitable Planets: An Introductory Astronomy Exercise
Michael C. LoPresto
The Physics Teacher 57, 159 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5092474
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES
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More exoplanets discovered; space tourism posters
Dan MacIsaac
The Physics Teacher 55, 318 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4981052
Using graphical and pictorial representations to teach introductory astronomy students about the detection of extrasolar planets via gravitational microlensing
Colin S. Wallace
American Journal of Physics 84, 335 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4943035
Kepler's Third Law and NASA's Kepler Mission
Alan Gould, Toshi Komatsu, Edna DeVore, Pamela Harman and David Koch
The Physics Teacher 53, 201 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4914556
Analyzing planetary transits with a smartphone
Azael Barrera-Garrido
The Physics Teacher 53, 179 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4908091
Modern cosmology: Interactive computer simulations that use recent observational surveys
Jacob Moldenhauera, Larry Engelhardt, Keenan M. Stone, and Ezekiel Shuler
American Journal of Physics 81, 414 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4798490
Clouds in planetary atmospheres: A useful application of the Clausius–Clapeyron equation
Agustı́n Sánchez-Lavega, Santiago Pérez-Hoyos, and Ricardo Hueso
American Journal of Physics 72, 767 (2004)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1645279
Resource Letter: SM-1: The standard model and beyond
Jonathan L. Rosner
American Journal of Physics 71, 302 (2003)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1539087
Resource Letter: TACMB-1: The theory of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background
Martin White and J. D. Cohn
American Journal of Physics 70, 106 (2002)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1380381
Upper limit on the photon electric charge from the cosmic microwave background
C. Sivaram
American Journal of Physics 63, 473 (1995)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17918
Light exchange in an expanding universe in fixed coordinates
Robert C. Fletcher
American Journal of Physics 62, 648 (1994)
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17486