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Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations

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  • © 1999

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  1. J.-M. Mariotti
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  2. D. Alloin

    1. European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 532)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Theory and Modeling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. The Unfinished History of Planet Searches

      • Martin Harwit
      Pages 3-12

    3. Latest Stages of Star Formation and Circumstellar Environment of Young Stellar Objects

      • A. Dutrey
      Pages 13-50

    4. Infalling Materials on Young Stars

      • V. P. Grinin
      Pages 51-64

    5. Protostellar Discs and Planet Formation

      • J. C. B. Papaloizou, C. Terquem, R. P. Nelson
      Pages 65-86

    6. Zodiacal Dust in The Earth Sciences

      • Bertil Olsson
      Pages 87-94

    7. Circumstellar Disks and Outer Planet Formation

      • A. Lecavelier Des Etangs
      Pages 95-104

    8. Dynamical Interaction of Planets in The Circumstellar Disk

      • P. Artymowicz
      Pages 105-106

    9. The New Planetary Systems

      • D. Queloz
      Pages 107-120

    10. Extrasolar Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Theory

      • Adam Burrows
      Pages 121-140

    11. From The Interstellar Medium to Planetary Atmospheres Via Comets

      • T. Owen, A. Bar-Nun
      Pages 141-154

    12. Giant Planet Formation

      • G. Wuchterl
      Pages 155-172

    13. Extra-Solar Planets: Atmospheres

      • J. Kasting
      Pages 173-173

  3. Observational Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-176
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    2. Astrometric Techniques

      • M. M. Colavita
      Pages 177-188

    3. Searching for Unseen Planets Via Occultation and Microlensing

      • Penny D. Sackett
      Pages 189-228

    4. Indirect Searches: Doppler Spectroscopy and Pulsar Timing

      • D. Queloz
      Pages 229-248

    5. Frequency Analysis and Extrasolar Planets

      • Maciej Konacki, Andrzej J. Maciejewski
      Pages 249-260

    6. Direct Searches: Imaging, Dark Speckle and Coronagraphy

      • A. Labeyrie
      Pages 261-280
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The question of the existence of other worlds and other living beings has been present in the human quest for knowledge since as far as Epicurus. For centuries this question belonged to the fields of philosophy and theology. The theoretical problem of the formation of the Solar System, and hence of other planetary systems, was tackled only during the 18th century, while the first observational attempts for a detection started less than one hundred years ago. Direct observation of an extra-solar planetary system is an extraordinarily difficult problem: extra-solar planets are at huge distances, are incredibly faint and are overwhelmed by the bright light of their own stars. With virtually no observational insight to test their models, theoreticians have remained for decades in a difficult position to make substantial progress. Yet, the field of stellar formation has provided since the 1980s both the the­ oretical and observational evidences for the formation of discs at the stage of star birth and for debris materials orbiting the very young stellar systems. It was tempting to consider that these left-overs might indeed later agglomerate into planetary systems more or less similar to ours. Then came observational evidences for planets outside the Solar System.

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  • European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

    D. Alloin

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