Extrasolar Planets: Saas Fee Advanced Course 31 (Saas-Fee Advanced Courses)

By Tristan GuillotPatrick CassenA. Quirrenbach, et al.

Book Overview

Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets:1. Methods of Planet Detection.-2. Planet-Forming Disks.-3. The Currently Known Extrasolar Planets.-4. Radial-Velocity Surveys.-5. Gravitational Microlensing.-6. Planetary Transits and Searches for Light Reflected by Planets.-7. The Effects of Atmospheric turbulence on Astronomical Observations.-8. Introduction to Optical Interferometry.-9. Astrometry with Interferometry.-10. Nulling Interferometry.-11. Appendix

Physics of Substellar Objects Interiors, Atmospheres, Evolution:
1.Introduction.-2.Our Giant Planets as a Basis for the Study of Substellar Objects.-3.Basic Equations, Gravitational Moments and Interior Structures.-4. Equations of State.-5. Opacities and Heat Transport.-6. Interior Structures of our Giant Planets: NJumerical Integrations and Results.-7.Evolution of Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs.-8. Spectra and Atmosphere.-9. Pegasi Planets.

Protostellar Disks and Planet Formation:1. Introduction.-2. Observations of Protostellar Disks.-3. Theory of Disk Structure and Evolution.-4.Dust-Gas Dynamcis.-5. Growth of Planetesimals to Planets.-6. The Formation of Gas Giant Planets.-7. Planet Migration.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642067220
• ISBN13: 9783642067228
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"