Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets (IAU S293): Proceedings of the 293rd Symposium of the International ... Held in Beijing, China, August 27-31, 2012 - Rilegato

 
9781107033825: Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets (IAU S293): Proceedings of the 293rd Symposium of the International ... Held in Beijing, China, August 27-31, 2012

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This book presents state-of-the-art research on the formation, dynamical evolution, interior dynamics and atmospheric characteristics of extrasolar habitable planets.

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Descrizione del libro

IAU Symposium 293 presents state-of-the-art research on the formation, dynamical evolution, interior dynamics, and atmospheric characteristics of extrasolar habitable planets. This comprehensive, up-to-date and technical volume targets those seeking to understand the origin of life and the possibility and detection of life elsewhere in the Universe.

Contenuti

1. State of (habitable) planet detection; 2. Detecting signatures of Earth-like planets; 3. The Kepler mission, and other transiting systems; 4. A step toward Eta-stub Earth; 5. Planets in and around binary stars, trojan planets, and exomoons; 6. Terrestrial planets in the solar system and beyond; 7. Planetesimal formation and disk-planet interaction; 8. Atmospheric characterization; 9. Super-Earths and their interior dynamics; 10. Instrumentation and detection techniques; 11. Surveys and detection programs.

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