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Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

31.10.2008

Verlag

University Science Books

Seitenzahl

400

Maße (L/B/H)

24.3/20/3.7 cm

Gewicht

1136 g

Auflage

2008

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-891389-55-9

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

31.10.2008

Verlag

University Science Books

Seitenzahl

400

Maße (L/B/H)

24.3/20/3.7 cm

Gewicht

1136 g

Auflage

2008

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-891389-55-9

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  • Produktbild: Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology
  • Chapter 1: Introduction, Background, and Preview
    1.1 Introduction
    1.2 Preview
    Chapter 2: Star formation and proto-stellar collapse
    2.1 Introduction
    2.2 A brief cosmography
    2.3 Observed proto-stellar structures
    2.4 Proto-stellar collapse
    2.5 Outside-in versus inside-out star formation
    2.6 Triggering collapse
    2.7 Angular Momentum in Collapse
    2.8 Orbital Basics
    2.9 Disk Evolution
    2.10 Binary and multiple star systems
    2.11 Brown dwarfs to planets
    Chapter 3: Planet Formation
    3.1 Introduction
    3.2 Planet classes and formation scenarios
    3.3 Coagulation of solids
    3.4 Stages of growth
    3.5 The rate of formation as a function of position
    3.6 Planetesimal and Proto-planet migration
    3.7 Final stages of planet formation
    3.8 Planet formation summary
    Chapter 4: Exoplanets
    4.1 Introduction
    4.2 Indirect Planet Detection
    4.3 Direct Planet Detection and Imaging
    Chapter 5: Life: a brief history, and its boundaries
    5.1 Introduction
    5.2 Two histories
    5.3 What is terrestrial life?
    5.4 The history of life on Earth
    5.5 Boundary conditions and habitability
    5.6 Deep Life
    Chapter 6: Planetary radiation, comparative planetology, biosignatures, and Daisyworld
    6.1 Introduction
    6.2 The reflectivity of a planet: albedo
    6.3 The thermal characteristics of a planet
    6.4 Interpreting reflected light from planets
    6.5 Total observed flux
    6.6 Comparative Planetology
    6.7 The impact of life: biosignatures
    6.8 Daisyworld
    6.9 Introducing the daisies
    6.10 Variations
    6.11 Concluding thoughts
    Chapter 7: Cosmochemistry, dust, and prebiotic molecules
    7.1 Introduction
    7.2 Elements and materials
    7.3 The origin of dust
    7.4 The Circumstellar Medium
    7.5 Nucleation
    7.6 Dust or molecule?
    7.7 Formation of complex molecules
    Chapter 8: Comets, meteorites, and proto-planetary disk structure
    8.1 Introduction
    8.2 Comets
    8.3 Meteorites
    8.4 Late time impactors and early Earth chemistry
    8.5 Chemistry of the proto-planetary disk
    Chapter 9: Habitable Zones
    9.1 Introduction
    9.2 The classical circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ)
    9.3 Habitability through time
    9.4 Additional factors
    9.5 The Galactic Habitable Zone
    Chapter 10: Alternate Habitable Zones and Beyond
    10.1 Introduction
    10.2 Earth: but not as we know it
    10.3 Moons
    10.4 Elemental constraints on life
    10.5 Speculations on the origins of life
    10.6 Concluding commentary and cautions