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Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology

Author : Caleb A. Scharf
Publisher : University Science Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 1891389556

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Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology by Caleb A. Scharf Pdf

"This book: Provides extensive grounding in key issues of astrophysics, chemistry, biology and geophysics; over 150 images and illustrations; exercises for each chapter, ranging from straightforward calculation problems to more far-ranging research-oriented exercises; an online component for users that includes new exercises and a continually updated blog of late-breaking scientific news items, fully cross referenced with the book; and extensive bibliographies for each chapter."--BOOK JACKET.

Exoplanets and Alien Solar Systems

Author : Tahir Yaqoob
Publisher : New Earth Labs
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780974168920

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Exoplanets and Alien Solar Systems by Tahir Yaqoob Pdf

An unprecedented number of planets outside of the solar system have been found, with an explosion in the number of discoveries in recent years. Find out what has been happening in this rapidly advancing arena of human exploration, what these extrasolar planets are like, and why some traditional ideas face being thrown out.

Extrasolar Planets and Their Host Stars

Author : Kaspar von Braun,Tabetha Boyajian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319611983

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Extrasolar Planets and Their Host Stars by Kaspar von Braun,Tabetha Boyajian Pdf

This book explores the relations between physical parameters of extrasolar planets and their respective parent stars. Planetary parameters are often directly dependent upon their stellar counterparts. In addition, the star is almost always the only visible component of the system and contains most of the system mass. Consequently, the parent star heavily influences every aspect of planetary physics and astrophysics. Drs. Kaspar von Braun and Tabetha Boyajian use direct methods to characterize exoplanet host starts that minimize the number of assumptions needed to be made in the process. The book provides a background on interferometric techniques for stellar diameter measurements, illustrates the authors' approach on using additional data to fully characterize the stars, provides a comprehensive update on the current state of the field, and examines in detail a number of historically significant and well-studied exoplanetary systems.

Extra-Solar Planets

Author : Bonnie Steves,Martin Hendry,Andrew C. Cameron
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781420083453

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Extra-Solar Planets by Bonnie Steves,Martin Hendry,Andrew C. Cameron Pdf

Since the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a main sequence star in 1995, nearly 500 planets have been detected, with this number expected to increase dramatically as new ground-based planetary searches begin to report their results. Emerging techniques offer the tantalizing possibility of detecting an Earth-mass planet in the habitable zon

Extrasolar Planets

Author : Ron Miller
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761323549

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Extrasolar Planets by Ron Miller Pdf

Chronicles the discoveries of all the planets within our solar system, as well as planets beyond our system.

Exoplanets

Author : Michael E. Summers,James Trefil
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781588345950

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Exoplanets by Michael E. Summers,James Trefil Pdf

The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space. This captivating book reveals the latest discoveries and argues that the incredible richness and complexity we are finding necessitates a change in our questions and mental paradigms. In short, we have to change how we think about the universe and our place in it, because it is stranger and more interesting than we could have imagined.

Exoplanets

Author : Sara Seager
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816529452

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Exoplanets by Sara Seager Pdf

For the first time in human history, we know for certain the existence of planets around other stars. Now the fastest-growing field in space science, the time is right for this fundamental source book on the topic which will lay the foundation for its continued growth. Exoplanets serves as both an introduction for the non-specialist and a foundation for the techniques and equations used in exoplanet observation by those dedicated to the field.

The Transits of Extrasolar Planets with Moons

Author : David M. Kipping
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642222696

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The Transits of Extrasolar Planets with Moons by David M. Kipping Pdf

Can we detect the moons of extrasolar planets? For two decades, astronomers have made enormous progress in the detection and characterisation of exoplanetary systems but the identification of an "exomoon" is notably absent. In this thesis, David Kipping shows how transiting planets may be used to infer the presence of exomoons through deviations in the time and duration of the planetary eclipses. A detailed account of the transit model, potential distortions, and timing techniques is covered before the analytic forms for the timing variations are derived. It is shown that habitable-zone exomoons above 0.2 Earth-masses are detectable with the Kepler space telescope using these new timing techniques.

Planetary Systems

Author : Marc Ollivier,Thérèse Encrenaz,Francoise Roques,Franck Selsis,Fabienne Casoli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540757481

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Planetary Systems by Marc Ollivier,Thérèse Encrenaz,Francoise Roques,Franck Selsis,Fabienne Casoli Pdf

Over the past ten years, the discovery of extrasolar planets has opened a new field of astronomy, and this area of research is rapidly growing, from both the observational and theoretical point of view. The presence of many giant exoplanets in the close vicinity of their star shows that these newly discovered planetary systems are very different from the solar system. New theoretical models are being developed in order to understand their formation scenarios, and new observational methods are being implemented to increase the sensitivity of exoplanet detections. In the present book, the authors address the question of planetary systems from all aspects. Starting from the facts (the detection of more than 300 extraterrestrial planets), they first describe the various methods used for these discoveries and propose a synthetic analysis of their global properties. They then consider the observations of young stars and circumstellar disks and address the case of the solar system as a specific example, different from the newly discovered systems. Then the study of planetary systems and of exoplanets is presented from a more theoretical point of view. The book ends with an outlook to future astronomical projects, and a description of the search for life on exoplanets. This book addresses students and researchers who wish to better understand this newly expanding field of research.

Extrasolar Planets

Author : Hans Deeg,Juan Antonio Belmonte,Antonio Aparicio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139468046

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Extrasolar Planets by Hans Deeg,Juan Antonio Belmonte,Antonio Aparicio Pdf

This 2007 volume presents the lectures from the sixteenth Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, which was dedicated to extrasolar planets. Research into extrasolar planets is one of the most exciting fields of astrophysics, and the past decade has seen a research leap from speculations on the existence of planets orbiting other stars to the discovery of around 200 planets to date. The book covers a wide range of issues, from the state-of-the-art observational techniques used to detect extrasolar planets, to the characterizations of these planets, and the techniques used in the remote detection of life. It also looks at the insights we can gain from our own Solar System, and how we can apply them. The contributors, all of high-standing in the field, provide a balanced and varied introduction to extrasolar planets for research astronomers and graduate students, bridging theoretical developments and observational advances.

Extrasolar Planets

Author : Stuart G. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022120237

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Extrasolar Planets by Stuart G. Clark Pdf

Provides an overview of the developments in the search for planetary-sized bodies orbiting Sun-like stars. Discusses the formation and evolution of stars and the processes leading to the formation of protoplanetary discs, planetesimals, embryonic planets and complete planetary systems. Also examined are the techniques currently being employed for the detection of extrasolar planets and the results of those searches, as well as the theoretical problems posed by giant planets with small orbital radii and those in eccentric orbits, brown dwarfs, and the possible planets around pulsars. The final chapter speculates on finding habitable and inhabited worlds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Envisioning Exoplanets

Author : Michael Carroll
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781588346919

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Envisioning Exoplanets by Michael Carroll Pdf

Come along for the captivating hunt for planets like our own Envisioning Exoplanets traces the journey of astronomers and researchers on their quest to explore the universe for a planet like Earth. Exoplanets--worlds beyond our solar system--were once dismissed as science fiction. But now, with more than 4,000 confirmed exoplanets, countless possibilities exist for what remains to be uncovered in the universe. This book follows the exhilarating progression of exoplanet research from its earliest stages operating on the fringes of scientific research to the newest developments of renowned agencies around the world searching for planets capable of hosting life. Featuring provocative questions about the universe and more than 200 remarkable illustrations from Michael Caroll, Ron Miller, and other key members of the International Association of Astronomical Artists, Envisioning Exoplanets is an intergalactic visual voyage.

Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations

Author : Jean-Marie Mariotti,D.M. Alloin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401146234

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Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations by Jean-Marie Mariotti,D.M. Alloin Pdf

The question of the existence of other worlds and other living beings has been present in the human quest for knowledge since as far as Epicurus. For centuries this question belonged to the fields of philosophy and theology. The theoretical problem of the formation of the Solar System, and hence of other planetary systems, was tackled only during the 18th century, while the first observational attempts for a detection started less than one hundred years ago. Direct observation of an extra-solar planetary system is an extraordinarily difficult problem: extra-solar planets are at huge distances, are incredibly faint and are overwhelmed by the bright light of their own stars. With virtually no observational insight to test their models, theoreticians have remained for decades in a difficult position to make substantial progress. Yet, the field of stellar formation has provided since the 1980s both the the oretical and observational evidences for the formation of discs at the stage of star birth and for debris materials orbiting the very young stellar systems. It was tempting to consider that these left-overs might indeed later agglomerate into planetary systems more or less similar to ours. Then came observational evidences for planets outside the Solar System.

Exoplanet Science Strategy

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Space Studies Board,Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309479417

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Exoplanet Science Strategy by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Space Studies Board,Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy Pdf

The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of the myriad of processes that dictate the formation and evolution of planets has matured, spurred on by the avalanche of unexpected discoveries. Appreciation of the factors that make a planet hospitable to life has grown in sophistication, as has understanding of the context for biosignatures, the remotely detectable aspects of a planet's atmosphere or surface that reveal the presence of life. Exoplanet Science Strategy highlights strategic priorities for large, coordinated efforts that will support the scientific goals of the broad exoplanet science community. This report outlines a strategic plan that will answer lingering questions through a combination of large, ambitious community-supported efforts and support for diverse, creative, community-driven investigator research.

Exoplanet Science Strategy

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Space Studies Board,Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309479448

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Exoplanet Science Strategy by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Space Studies Board,Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy Pdf

The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of the myriad of processes that dictate the formation and evolution of planets has matured, spurred on by the avalanche of unexpected discoveries. Appreciation of the factors that make a planet hospitable to life has grown in sophistication, as has understanding of the context for biosignatures, the remotely detectable aspects of a planet's atmosphere or surface that reveal the presence of life. Exoplanet Science Strategy highlights strategic priorities for large, coordinated efforts that will support the scientific goals of the broad exoplanet science community. This report outlines a strategic plan that will answer lingering questions through a combination of large, ambitious community-supported efforts and support for diverse, creative, community-driven investigator research.