Astrophysics Data Analysis Course
This course equips learners with essential skills in astrophysics data analysis, including accessing public archives, cleaning and detrending light curves, detecting and modeling exoplanet transits, estimating planetary radii, and interpreting stellar activity using professional tools and methods tailored for physics experts.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
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What will I learn?
Gain practical expertise in analyzing astrophysics data to detect and characterize exoplanet transits with real space-mission datasets. Master accessing archives, downloading and cleaning light curves, managing time systems, detrending flux, conducting BLS searches, extracting transit parameters, modeling for planetary radii, retrieving stellar properties, and producing reproducible results with solid scientific justification.
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Develop skills
- Exoplanet transit detection using BLS and phase-folding on real light curves.
- High-precision light-curve cleaning through detrending, de-noising, and normalization of space data.
- Planet radius estimation by fitting transit models and propagating stellar and depth errors.
- Archive mining expertise for Kepler/TESS data and stellar catalogs via MAST and APIs.
- Reproducible astrophysics workflows with clear documentation of data, code, and uncertainties.
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