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Extrasolar Planets Saas Fee Advanced Course 31 /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Cassen, Patrick (Autor), Guillot, Tristan (Autor), Quirrenbach, A. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Queloz, Didier (Editor ), Udry, Stephane (Editor ), Mayor, Michel (Editor ), Benz, Willy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Saas-Fee Advanced Course, 31
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.