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1 online resource (215 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Current Natural Sciences Ser.
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Current Natural Sciences Series.
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The prehistory of exoplanets -- First ideas and speculations -- The evolution of concepts on the formation of the Solar System -- The discovery of protoplanetary disks -- The first attempts to detect exoplanets -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 The first detections -- An unexpected discovery: planets around a pulsar! -- 1995: The first planet around a star like ours! -- The success of velocimetry -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 The method of transits -- What is a planetary transit? -- Observations from the Earth -- The Space Age |
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The CoRoT mission -- The Kepler Mission -- Primary and Secondary Transits -- Transmission spectroscopy (primary transit) -- Emission spectroscopy (secondary transit) -- Gravitational transits -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Detecting and viewing exoplanets -- Advantages and limitations of indirect methods of detection -- The transit method -- Exoplanets detected as gravitational microlenses -- Exoplanets detected by velocimetry or astrometry -- Direct observation: a very difficult problem -- Coronography -- The black-fringe interferometer -- How to obtain perfect images: adaptive optics |
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Combined coronography and adaptive optics -- A new track for the future: the search for exoplanets in the radio domain -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 The variety of exoplanets -- The outstanding results of the last twenty years -- A multitude of exoplanets -- Giant exoplanets very close to their stars -- Orbits of all kinds -- Many multiple systems -- Planets around double stars -- The different classes of exoplanets -- Hot and Cold Jupiters -- Super-Earths and Neptunes -- Earths and Habitable Planets -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 The birth of stars and protoplanetary disks |
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Protostars, jets and disks -- The protoplanetary disks -- The ice lines in protoplanetary disks -- Planet-disk interactions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Formation and evolution of planetary systems -- The formation of planets -- The evolution of planetary systems: what does the Solar System teach us? -- Why no super-Earths in the Solar System? -- Expelled planets, isolated exoplanets -- What future for the Solar System? -- What consequences for our understanding of exoplanetary systems? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 The physical nature of exoplanets -- The observables |
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The first measurements of the atmospheric composition of hot Jupiters -- Possible causes of departure from thermochemical equilibrium -- Clouds and mists on exoplanets -- Spectroscopic measurements of super-Earths and exo-Neptunes in transit -- Spectroscopy of exoplanets from the ground -- Phase curves and atmospheric circulation of exoplanets -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 Around Exoplanets -- The exocomets -- Giant rings around an exoplanet? -- A satellite? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 Life on exoplanets? -- What is life? -- The Emergence of Life on Earth -- Life elsewhere in the Solar System? |
| Note |
How to detect life on exoplanets? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Extrasolar planets.
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Extrasolar planets. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Encrenaz, Thérèse, 1946-
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Casoli, F. (Fabienne), 1959-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lequeux, James The Exoplanets Revolution Les Ulis : EDP Sciences,c2020 9782759822102 |
| ISBN |
2759822117 |
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9782759822119 (electronic book) |
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