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Exoplanet atmospheres : physical processes /
Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2010.
Princeton, N.J. : [2010] |
| Colección: | Princeton series in astrophysics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basic physical processes--including radiative transfer, molecular absorption, and chemical processes--common to all planetary atmospheres, as well as the transit, eclipse, and thermal phase variation observations that are unique to exoplanets. In each chapter, Sara Seager offers a conceptual introductio. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1400835305 9781400835300 |