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 extrasol...
| Main Author: | Cassen, Patrick. |
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| Other Authors: | Guillot, Tristan., Quirrenbach, Andreas., SpringerLink (Online Service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berlin :
Springer,
2006.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 451 pages) : 140 figure (10 color), table. |
| Series: |
Saas-Fee advanced course ... lecture notes ;
31. |
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Table of Contents:
- Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets: Methods of Planet Detection
- Planet-Forming Disks
- The Currently Known Extrasolar Planets
- Radial-Velocity Surveys
- Gravitational Microlensing
- Planetary Transits and Searches for Light Reflected by Planets
- The Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence on Astronomical Observations
- Introduction to Optical Interferometry
- Astrometry with Interferometry
- Nulling Interferometry
- Appendix. Physics of Substellar Objects Interiors, Atmospheres, Evolution: Introduction
- Our Giant Planets as a Basis for the Study of Substellar Objects
- Basic Equations, Gravitational Moments and Interior Structures
- Equations of State
- Opacities and Heat Transport
- Interior Structures of our Giant Planets: Numerical Integrations and Results
- Evolution of Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs
- Spectra and Atmosphere
- Pegasi Planets. Protostellar Disks and Planet Formation: Introduction
- Observations of Protostellar Disks
- Theory of Disk Structure and Evolution
- Dust-Gas Dynamcis
- Growth of Planetesimals to Planets
- The Formation of Gas Giant Planets
- Planet Migration.