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Planets outside the solar system : theory and observations / edited by J.-M. Mariotti and D. Alloin.
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed. 1999.
Published/Created
Dordrecht : Springer-Science+Business Media, B. V., 1999.
Description
1 online resource (XXIII, 421 p.)
Availability
Available Online
Springer Nature - Springer Book Archive - Springer Physics and Astronomy
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Subject(s)
Extrasolar planets
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Editor
Mariotti, Jn.-M. (Jean-Marie), 1955-1998
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Alloin, D. M. (Danielle M.), 1944-
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Related name
NATO Advanced Study Institute on Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations (1998 : Cargèse, France)
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Series
NATO science series. Series C, Mathematical and physical sciences ; Volume 532.
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Summary note
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.
Notes
"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations, CargeÌse, Corsica, France, May 5-15, 1998"--Title page verso.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
Contents
The Unfinished History of Planet Searches
Latest Stages of Star Formation and Circumstellar Environment of Young Stellar Objects
Infalling Material on Young Stars
Protostellar Discs and Planet Formation
Zodiacal Dust in The Earth Sciences
Circumstellar Disks and Outer Planet Formation
Dynamical Interactions of Planets in The Circumstellar Disk
The New Planetary Systems
Extra-Solar Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Theory
From The Interstellar Medium to Planetary Atmospheres Via Comets
Convection and Giant Planet Formation
Extra-Solar Planets: Atmospheres
Astrometric Techniques
Searching for Unseen Planets Via Occultation and Microlensing
Indirect Searches: Doppler Spectroscopy and Pulsar Timing
Frequency Analysis and Extra-Solar Planets
Direct Searches: Imaging, Dark Speckle and Coronography
Direct Searches: Interferometric Methods
Large Ground-Based Telescopes With High Order Adaptive Optics for Imaging Faint Objects and Extra-Solar Planets
Reflected Light From Close-In Extrasolar Giant Planets
Strategies for Space Programs
Biological Foundations of Life
The Contributions Of ISO to Exoplanetary Systems Research and Astrobiology
Are We Alone in The Cosmos? Six Myths and A Mantra
Strategies for Remote Detection of Life
The Scenary of Extra-Solar Planet Search, From an Extragalactic Viewpoint.
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ISBN
0-7923-5709-4
94-011-4623-3
Doi
10.1007/978-94-011-4623-4
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