Use the VPN!

To access online resources from a non-Yale network, you will need to connect to the VPN using Cisco AnyConnect. Instructions on installing the VPN software are available here.

Remember to start your VPN client when you start doing research — not when you want to download something. Web sites use cookies to determine who should and shouldn't have access, and most access issues from off-campus happen when an older cookie doesn't refresh when the VPN connection is established. If that happens to you, clear the cookies for the web site you are visiting (or open a different browser) and try again.

In this guide, you will find information about writing your term paper for ASTR 130 if you are taking the class during a semester for which there is one. The term paper on your star/planetary system, according to the syllabus, will be modeled after a peer-reviewed science paper.

Here are several examples of scientific papers to get you started:

• Wandel, A. (2020). Bio-habitability and life on planets of M-G-type stars. In Origins: From the Protosun to the First Steps of Life, Proceedings IAU Symposium 345, 2018, ed. B.G. Elmegreen, L. V. Tóth, & M. Güdel. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921319001984
• Carrillo, A., K. Hawkins, B. P. Bwoler, W. Cochran, and A. Vanderburg. (2020). Know thy star, know thy planet: Chemo-kinematically characterizing TESS targets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(3), 4365-4381. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3255
• Murante, G., A. Provenzale, G. Vladilo, G. Taffoni, L. Silva, E. Palazzi, J. von Hardenberg, M. Maris, E. Londero, C. Knapic, and S. Zorba. (2020). Climate bistability of Earth-like planets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(2), 2638-2650. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3529

Note how the authors have built their papers' sections, how they caption their figures, and how they cite information from outside sources. While you're not working on a paper with astronomical complexity, many of the same organizational principles will apply.