The Exoplanet Revolution /

More than 4300 planets around nearby stars! Who could have imagined this extraordinary harvest only thirty years ago? As the vast majority of stars are surrounded by planets, we can surmise that there must be more than a hundred billion planets in our Galaxy. The Solar system is therefore very far f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lequeux, James
Otros Autores: Encrenaz, Thérèse, 1946-, Casoli, F. (Fabienne), 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Les Ulis : EDP Sciences, 2020.
Colección:Current Natural Sciences
Temas:
Extrasolar planets.
Exoplanètes.
Extrasolar planets
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The prehistory of exoplanets
  • First ideas and speculations
  • The evolution of concepts on the formation of the Solar System
  • The discovery of protoplanetary disks
  • The first attempts to detect exoplanets
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 2 The first detections
  • An unexpected discovery: planets around a pulsar!
  • 1995: The first planet around a star like ours!
  • The success of velocimetry
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 3 The method of transits
  • What is a planetary transit?
  • Observations from the Earth
  • The Space Age
  • The CoRoT mission
  • The Kepler Mission
  • Primary and Secondary Transits
  • Transmission spectroscopy (primary transit)
  • Emission spectroscopy (secondary transit)
  • Gravitational transits
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 4 Detecting and viewing exoplanets
  • Advantages and limitations of indirect methods of detection
  • The transit method
  • Exoplanets detected as gravitational microlenses
  • Exoplanets detected by velocimetry or astrometry
  • Direct observation: a very difficult problem
  • Coronography
  • The black-fringe interferometer
  • How to obtain perfect images: adaptive optics
  • Combined coronography and adaptive optics
  • A new track for the future: the search for exoplanets in the radio domain
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 5 The variety of exoplanets
  • The outstanding results of the last twenty years
  • A multitude of exoplanets
  • Giant exoplanets very close to their stars
  • Orbits of all kinds
  • Many multiple systems
  • Planets around double stars
  • The different classes of exoplanets
  • Hot and Cold Jupiters
  • Super-Earths and Neptunes
  • Earths and Habitable Planets
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 6 The birth of stars and protoplanetary disks
  • Protostars, jets and disks
  • The protoplanetary disks
  • The ice lines in protoplanetary disks
  • Planet-disk interactions
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 7 Formation and evolution of planetary systems
  • The formation of planets
  • The evolution of planetary systems: what does the Solar System teach us?
  • Why no super-Earths in the Solar System?
  • Expelled planets, isolated exoplanets
  • What future for the Solar System?
  • What consequences for our understanding of exoplanetary systems?
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 8 The physical nature of exoplanets
  • The observables
  • The first measurements of the atmospheric composition of hot Jupiters
  • Possible causes of departure from thermochemical equilibrium
  • Clouds and mists on exoplanets
  • Spectroscopic measurements of super-Earths and exo-Neptunes in transit
  • Spectroscopy of exoplanets from the ground
  • Phase curves and atmospheric circulation of exoplanets
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 9 Around Exoplanets
  • The exocomets
  • Giant rings around an exoplanet?
  • A satellite?
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 10 Life on exoplanets?
  • What is life?
  • The Emergence of Life on Earth
  • Life elsewhere in the Solar System?

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