Bioastronomy

1. Front Matter

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2. Opening remarks

   • George Marx

   Pages 1-2

3. The creation of free energy

   • George Marx

   Pages 5-10

4. Particulate disks around main sequence stars

   • Dana E. Backman, Francesco Paresce

   Pages 11-12

5. Bursts of star formation in the local galactic disk and their implications for the origin and evolution of life around the sun and nearby stars

   • A. A. Suchkov

   Pages 13-16

6. Testing theories of star formation

   • J. Neal Evans II

   Pages 17-18

7. Towards an estimate of the fration of stars with planets from velocities of high precision

   • B. Campbell, S. Yang, A. W. Irwin, G. A. H. Walker

   Pages 19-20

8. On the feasibility of extra-solar planetary detection at very low ratio frequencies

   • Alain Lecacheux

   Pages 21-30

9. The ESO microvariability Key Program and the detection of extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs

   • Nikolaus Vogt

   Pages 31-32

10. A proposal for the search of extrasolar planets by occultation

    • Jean Schneider, Michel Chevreton

    Pages 33-33

11. Near-term prospects for extra-solar planet detection: The astrometric imaging telescope

    • Richard J. Terrile, Eugene H. Levy, George D. Gatewood

    Pages 34-35

12. A search for T-Tauri stars based on the IRAS Point Source Catalog

    • J. C. Gregorio Hetem, J. R. D. Lepine, G. R. Quast, C. A. O. Torres, R. de la Reza

    Pages 36-38

13. How many single stars among solar-type stars?

    • A. Duquennoy, M. Mayor

    Pages 39-43

14. Habitable planetary orbits around α centauri and other binaries

    • D. Benest

    Pages 44-47

15. The search for protostars

    • T. L. Wilson

    Pages 48-54

16. The habitability of Mars-like planets around main sequence stars

    • Wanda L. Davis, Laurance R. Doyle, Dana E. Backman, Christopher P. McKay

    Pages 55-61

17. Planetary accretion debris and IR excesses in open stellar clusters

    • D. E. Backman, J. R. Stauffer, F. C. Witteborn

    Pages 62-62

18. Lithium abundances as a probe of the early evolution of solar-type stars

    • Eduardo L. Martin, Gibor Basri, Claude Bertout

    Pages 63-63

19. Low-amplitude stellar velocity variations: Other possibilities

    • David W. Latham, Guillermo Torres, Tsevi Mazeh

    Pages 64-67

20. Some recent developments in interstellar chemistry

    • William M. Irvine, Åke Hjalmarson, Masatoshi Ohishi

    Pages 71-79

This book collects together a selection of the best papers presented at the Third International Bioastronomy Symposium held in 1990. The subject is bioastronomy, the search for life in the universe, andthe book is devided according to the five main stages of life as recognized by this new branch of science: cosmic organic, prebiotic, primitive biological, and advanced. Thereader will find here the most recent results obtained by top specialists from all over the world on hot topics such as the formation and discovery of planets, organic chemistry in meteorites and comets, prebiotic chemistry in the atmosphere of Titan, the search for primitive life in the permafrost of Mars, and, SETI itself, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Complemented by live discussions each presentation forms a review of the state-of-the-art treatment of a particular area and also looks toward those developments in bioastronomywhich will surely be realized in the next few years.

• Bioastronomie
• Radioastronomie
• Weltraum
• astronomy
• ausserirdisches Leben
• bioastronomy
• extraterrestrial life
• space

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