
The Exoplanets Revolution
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This book gives a comprehensive vision of this complex and fascinating area of research, presented in a simple and lively way.
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--- Contributor: Fabienne Casoli Fabienne Casoli est astronome à l'Observatoire de Paris. Elle a été directrice adjointe de l'Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers du CNRS, directrice de l'Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale à Orsay, et directrice-adjointe du Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES). Elle s'intéresse maintenant à la radioastronomie aux très grandes fréquences et aux projets NenuFAR et SKA (Square Kilometer Array).
Content
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- How to detect life on exoplanets?
- Bibliography
- Chapter 11 Exploring Exoplanets: What Prospects?
- Habitable planets, inhabited planets: a difficult problem
- More planets, and smaller ones, to explore the diversity of planetary systems
- New light on giant planets: astrometry and imagery
- Studying the atmospheres of exoplanets
- Towards analogues of the Earth-Sun system: after 2030?
- Alpha Centauri: other planets?
- Chapter 12 Communicating with other worlds?
- The probability of existence of advanced civilizations on other planets
- The SETI Projects
- Messages to the Universe
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1: The planets of the Solar System
- Appendix 2: A Selection of Exoplanets
- Appendix 3: Some useful data
- Appendix 4: The nomenclature of stars and exoplanets
- Glossary
- Acronyms
- Index
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