Overview

The observation and understanding of extra-solar planetary systems has become a topic that poses challenges to many fields of human knowledge. A few years after the first observational evidence of planets outside the Solar System, this field of research has experienced spectacular developments. One of the characteristics of the field is that it draws together researchers from a variety of fields such as astrophysics, geophysics and biochemistry and opens up new areas for their interactions. This work sets out a synthesis of the advances and points of view of this adventure.

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Author:   Jean-Marie Mariotti ,  D.M. Alloin
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Volume:   532
Weight:   0.688kg
ISBN:  

9780792357094

ISBN 10:   0792357094
Pages:   421
Publication Date:   30 April 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Unfinished History of Planet Searches.- Latest Stages of Star Formation and Circumstellar Environment of Young Stellar Objects.- Infalling Material on Young Stars.- Protostellar Discs and Planet Formation.- Zodiacal Dust in The Earth Sciences.- Circumstellar Disks and Outer Planet Formation.- Dynamical Interactions of Planets in The Circumstellar Disk.- The New Planetary Systems.- Extra-Solar Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Theory.- From The Interstellar Medium to Planetary Atmospheres Via Comets.- Convection and Giant Planet Formation.- Extra-Solar Planets: Atmospheres.- Astrometric Techniques.- Searching for Unseen Planets Via Occultation and Microlensing.- Indirect Searches: Doppler Spectroscopy and Pulsar Timing.- Frequency Analysis and Extra-Solar Planets.- Direct Searches: Imaging, Dark Speckle and Coronography.- Direct Searches: Interferometric Methods.- Large Ground-Based Telescopes With High Order Adaptive Optics for Imaging Faint Objects and Extra-Solar Planets.- Reflected Light From Close-In Extrasolar Giant Planets.- Strategies for Space Programs.- Biological Foundations of Life.- The Contributions Of ISO to Exoplanetary Systems Research and Astrobiology.- Are We Alone in The Cosmos? Six Myths and A Mantra.- Strategies for Remote Detection of Life.- The Scenary of Extra-Solar Planet Search, From an Extragalactic Viewpoint.

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