Planetary diversity : rocky planet processes and their observational signatures /

The last thirty years have seen an irrevocable change in the field of planetary science with the discovery of the first planets around stars other than our own Sun. While approximately twenty percent of the exoplanets we have discovered are close in size to the Earth, the similarity of their surface...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tasker, Elizabeth J. (Editor ), Unterborn, Cayman (Editor ), Laneuville, Matthieu, 1987- (Editor ), Fujii, Yuka (Editor ), Desch, Steven J., 1970- (Editor ), Hartnett, Hilairy E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2020]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 21.
AAS-IOP astronomy. 2021 collection.
Temas:
Extrasolar planets > Geology.
Extrasolar planets > Surfaces.
Solar system - the Sun & planets.
SCIENCE / Astronomy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The challenges in understanding the diversity of rocky planets
  • 1. Observations of exoplanets / Elizabeth J. Tasker and Yuka Fujii
  • 2. Formation of a rocky planet / Elizabeth J. Tasker
  • 3. Magnetic fields on rocky planets / Matthieu Laneuville, Chuanfei Dong, Joseph G. O'Rourke and Adam C. Schneider
  • 4. The heat budget of rocky planets / Bradford J Foley, Christine Houser, Lena Noack and Nicola Tosi
  • 5. The composition of rocky planets / Cayman Unterborn, Laura Schaefer and Sebastiaan Krijt
  • 6. The volatile content of rocky planets /. Steven J. Desch, Dorian Abbot, Sebastiaan Krijt, Cayman Unterborn, Guillaume Morard and Hilairy E. Hartnett.

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