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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2006.
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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.