Editors:
- Features new entries, updating readers on key work in astrobiology
- Builds on success of earlier edition, offering more graphical support material
- Presents new results in the field of astrochemistry
- Clarifies technical terms from astronomy, biology, chemistry, geosciences & space sciences
- Provides key citations to the literature in a high profile field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (3039 entries)
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Front Matter
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Astrobiology by Discipline
About this book
The interdisciplinary field of Astrobiology constitutes a joint arena where provocative discoveries are coalescing concerning, e.g. the prevalence of exoplanets, the diversity and hardiness of life, and its increasingly likely chances for its emergence. Biologists, astrophysicists, biochemists, geoscientists and space scientists share this exciting mission of revealing the origin and commonality of life in the Universe. The members of the different disciplines are used to their own terminology and technical language. In the interdisciplinary environment many terms either have redundant meanings or are completely unfamiliar to members of other disciplines.
The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology serves as the key to a common understanding. Each new or experienced researcher and graduate student in adjacent fields of astrobiology will appreciate this reference work in the quest to understand the big picture. The carefully selected group of active researchers contributing to this work and the expert field editors intend for their contributions, from an internationally comprehensive perspective, to accelerate the interdisciplinary advance of astrobiology.
This new edition offers ~300 new entries. Many entries were expanded or supplemented by figures supporting the understanding of the text. Especially in the field of astrochemistry there is a huge body of new results that have been taken into account in this new edition. The synonyms and keywords have been carefully revisited. Many were added, redundant ones deleted.
Keywords
- Astrobiology Reference Work
- Astrochemistry Encyclopedia
- Astrophysics Encyclopedia
- Biochemistry Encyclopedia
- Epistemology of Astrobiology
- Extraterrestrial Life Encyclopedia
- Extremophiles Encyclopedia
- Geoscience Encyclopedia
- Habitability and Habitable Zones
- Interdisciplinary Terms of Astrobiology
- Key Literature of Astrobiology
- Life Science Encyclopedia
- Life in the Universe Encyclopedia
- Microbiology Encyclopedia
- Origins of Life Encyclopedia
- Planetary Sciences Encyclopedia
- Space Science Encyclopedia
- Terminology of Astrobiology
- Thesaurus of Astrobiology
- Traces of Life Encyclopedia
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Editors and Affiliations
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CNRS-Universite de Bordeaux, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Floirac, France
Muriel Gargaud
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
William M. Irvine
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Departamento de Biologia Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Ricardo Amils
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Earth–Life Science Institute (ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro–ku, Japan
Henderson James (Jim) Cleaves
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GEOTOP Research Center for Geochemistry and Geodynamics, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Daniele L. Pinti
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Department of Astrophysics, Laboratory of Molecular Astrophysics, Iorrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain
José Cernicharo Quintanilla
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LESIA, Observatoire Paris-Site de Meudon, Meudon, France
Daniel Rouan
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Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Planetenforschung, Berlin, Germany
Tilman Spohn
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Centre François Viéte d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques EA 1161, Faculté des Sciences et des, Techniques de Nantes, Nantes, France
Stéphane Tirard
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CNES/DSP/SME, Vétérinaire/DVM, Astro/Exobiology, Paris Cedex 1, France
Michel Viso
About the editors
The Editor in Chief, Muriel Gargaud, is an enthusiastic and experienced editor who has proven in various projects that she can manage a large number of editors and authors and deliver an excellent publication.
William Irvine was President of the Commission on Bioastronomy of the International Astronomical Union. His research activity is concentrated in two areas: the chemistry of dense interstellar clouds; and the physics and chemistry of comets. He collaborated with various NASA astrobiology working groups and is author of more than 200 scientific articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Astrobiology
Editors: Muriel Gargaud, William M. Irvine, Ricardo Amils, Henderson James (Jim) Cleaves, Daniele L. Pinti, José Cernicharo Quintanilla, Daniel Rouan, Tilman Spohn, Stéphane Tirard, … Michel Viso
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44185-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-44184-8Published: 25 September 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-44185-5Published: 15 October 2015
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XLV, 2737
Number of Illustrations: 219 b/w illustrations, 484 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrobiology, Bioorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry, general, Planetology, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Biogeosciences