A Decade of Extrasolar Planets Around Normal Stars

Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland May
Herausgeber: Mario, Livio; Jeff, Valenti; Kailash, Sahu

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Edited 2005 volume providing an important resource on extrasolar planets, for professional researchers and graduate students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780521173308
• ISBN-10: 0521173302
• Artikelnr.: 32468273

Inhaltsangabe

1. Extrasolar planets: past
present
and future A. P. Boss; 2. The quest for very low-mass planets M. Mayor
F. Pepe
C. Lovis
D. Queloz and S. Udry; 3. Extrasolar planets: a galactic perspective I. N. Reid; 4. The Kepler Mission: Design
expected science results
opportunities to participate W. J. Borucki
D. Koch
G. Basri
T. Brown
D. Caldwell
E. Devore
E. Dunham
T. Gautier
J. Geary
R. Gilliland
A. Gould
S. Howell
J. Jenkins and D. Latham; 5. Observations of the atmospheres of extrasolar planets T. M. Brown
R. Alonso
M. Knölker
H. Rauer and W. Schmidt; 6. Planetary migration P. J. Armitage and W. K. M. Rice; 7. Observational constraints on dust disk lifetimes: implications for planet formation L. A. Hillenbrand; 8. The evolution of gas in disks J. Najita; 9. Planet formation J.J. Lissauer; 10. Core accretion-gas capture model for gas giant planet formation O. Hubickyj; 11. Gravitational instabilities in protoplanetary disks R. H. Durisen; 12. Conference summary: the quest for new worlds J. E. Pringle.