Exoplanets Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds
Since 1992 there has been an explosion in the discovery of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. There are now around 600 alien planets that we know about and that number is likely to break through the 1,000 ‘barrier’ within a couple of years. The recent launch of the Kepler space telescope spe...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
| Series: | Astronomers' Universe
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Because WE live on one!: Why planets and exoplanets are important
- Chapter 2: A quick tour of the exoplanet menagerie
- Chapter 3: An exoplanet retrospective
- Chapter 4: In the beginning: the first exoplanet discoveries
- Chapter 5: On the track of alien planets: The radial velocity or Doppler method
- Chapter 6: On the track of alien planets: The transit method
- Chapter 7: On the track of alien planets: direct imaging and observation
- Chapter 8: On the track of alien planets: Gravitational microlensing
- Chapter 9: On the track of alien planets: Timing
- Chapter 10: On the track of alien planets: Other approaches
- Chapter 11: Where do we go from here?: Future approaches to exoplanet detection and study
- Chapter 12: Exoplanets revealed: what they are really like
- Chapter 13: Exoplanets and exoplanetary systems: Pasts and futures
- Chapter 14: Future homes for humankind?
- Appendices
- Appendix I: Nomenclature or What's in a name.- Appendix II: Note on distances, sizes, and masses, etc.
- Appendix III: Further reading.- Appendix IV: Technical background
- Appendix V: Names, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
- Index.