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Extra-Solar Planets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Extra-Solar Planets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-12-07
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Since the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a main sequence star in 1995, nearly 500 planets have been detected, with this number expected to increase dramatically as new ground-based planetary searches begin to report their results. Emerging techniques offer the tantalizing possibility of detecting an Earth-mass planet in the habitable zon

Solar and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

Solar and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-01-11
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  • Publisher: Springer

Both the high level of activity in worldwide space exploration programmes and the discovery of extra-solar planets have spurred renewed interest in the physics and evolution dynamics of solar systems. The present book has grown out of a set of lectures by leading experts in the field within the framework of the well-known EADN summer schools. It addresses primarily graduate students and young researchers but will be equally useful for scientists in search of a comprehensive tutorial account that goes beyond the material found in standard textbooks.

Extrasolar Planets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Extrasolar Planets

This 2007 volume presents the lectures from the sixteenth Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, which was dedicated to extrasolar planets. Research into extrasolar planets is one of the most exciting fields of astrophysics, and the past decade has seen a research leap from speculations on the existence of planets orbiting other stars to the discovery of around 200 planets to date. The book covers a wide range of issues, from the state-of-the-art observational techniques used to detect extrasolar planets, to the characterizations of these planets, and the techniques used in the remote detection of life. It also looks at the insights we can gain from our own Solar System, and how we can apply them. The contributors, all of high-standing in the field, provide a balanced and varied introduction to extrasolar planets for research astronomers and graduate students, bridging theoretical developments and observational advances.

Extrasolar Planets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Extrasolar Planets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-11-24
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Provides an overview of the developments in the search for planetary-sized bodies orbiting Sun-like stars. Discusses the formation and evolution of stars and the processes leading to the formation of protoplanetary discs, planetesimals, embryonic planets and complete planetary systems. Also examined are the techniques currently being employed for the detection of extrasolar planets and the results of those searches, as well as the theoretical problems posed by giant planets with small orbital radii and those in eccentric orbits, brown dwarfs, and the possible planets around pulsars. The final chapter speculates on finding habitable and inhabited worlds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Extrasolar Planets
  • Language: en

Extrasolar Planets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Lynette R. Cook provides a collection of her drawings of extrasolar planets. Extrasolar planets are found outside of our solar system. Cook completed drawings of planets discovered by the California and Carnegie Planet Search (CCPS), which is a project of the Department of Astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Extrasolar Planets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Extrasolar Planets

This latest, up-to-date resource for research on extrasolar planets covers formation, dynamics, atmospheres and detection. After a look at the formation of giant planets, the book goes on to discuss the formation and dynamics of planets in resonances, planets in double stars, atmospheres and habitable zones, detection via spectra and transits, and the history and prospects of ESPs as well as satellite projects. Edited by a renowned expert in solar system dynamics with chapters written by the leading experts in the method described -- from the US and Europe -- this is an ideal textbook for graduates, students in astronomy, and astronomers.

Exoplanets and Alien Solar Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Exoplanets and Alien Solar Systems

An unprecedented number of planets outside of the solar system have been found, with an explosion in the number of discoveries in recent years. Find out what has been happening in this rapidly advancing arena of human exploration, what these extrasolar planets are like, and why some traditional ideas face being thrown out.

Extrasolar Planets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 463

Extrasolar Planets

Research on extrasolar planets is one of the most exciting fields of activity in astrophysics. In a decade only, a huge step forward has been made from the early speculations on the existence of planets orbiting "other stars" to the first discoveries and to the characterization of extrasolar planets. This breakthrough is the result of a growing interest of a large community of researchers as well as the development of a wide range of new observational techniques and facilities. Based on their lectures given at the 31st Saas-Fee Advanced Course, Andreas Quirrenbach, Tristan Guillot and Pat Cassen have written up up-to-date comprehensive lecture notes on the "Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets", "Physics of Substellar Objects Interiors, Atmospheres, Evolution" and "Protostellar Disks and Planet Formation". This book will serve graduate students, lecturers and scientists entering the field of extrasolar planets as detailed and comprehensive introduction.

Solar and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Solar and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-12-14
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  • Publisher: Springer

Both the high level of activity in worldwide space exploration programmes and the discovery of extra-solar planets have spurred renewed interest in the physics and evolution dynamics of solar systems. The present book has grown out of a set of lectures by leading experts in the field within the framework of the well-known EADN summer schools. It addresses primarily graduate students and young researchers but will be equally useful for scientists in search of a comprehensive tutorial account that goes beyond the material found in standard textbooks.

Extrasolar Planets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 100

Extrasolar Planets

Chronicles the discoveries of all the planets within our solar system, as well as planets beyond our system.