Please direct any questions about this event to the event judge, Dr. Joss Ives (joss@phas.ubc.ca).
This year’s live lab event is a planetary astronomy lab. This event will run on the day of Physics Olympics, from 10:30-11:30am, with the link to the activity being made available here in advance of the activity.
Overview of the event
A virtual laboratory-based event involving exoplanet detection and characterization. Understanding of one or more of the following will be necessary to complete the lab: transits, radial velocity measurements, Kepler’s laws, and flux laws. Practice questions and additional details about the event will be available at least one week prior to the day of Physics Olympics (March 5, 2022).