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Worlds Beyond Our Own

The Search for Habitable Planets

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Authors:
  1. Sujan Sengupta

    1. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India

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  • Presents the essential conditions required for the formation and evolution of life and on which planets these may be met
  • Provides an understanding of how rare the solar system, planet Earth and all life on it actually are
  • Teaches you about the different planets, stars and brown dwarfs
  • Entertaining and at the same time informative and thought provocative for curious minds
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Astronomers' Universe (ASTRONOM)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Hierarchy in the Universe

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    Pages 1-13

  3. A Brief History of the Solar System

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    Pages 15-28

  4. Our Neighborhood: The Solar Family

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    Pages 29-58

  5. Brown Dwarfs: The Missing Link Between Stars and Planets

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    Pages 59-65

  6. Discovery of Extra-Solar Planets

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    Pages 67-81

  7. An Amazing Zoo of Planets

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    Pages 83-101

  8. Life: A Delicate Process

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    Pages 103-116

  9. In Search of Another Earth: An Extremely Rare Planet

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    Pages 117-132

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 133-154
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About this book

This is a book on planets: Solar system planets and dwarf planets. And planets outside our solar system – exoplanets. How did they form? What types of planets are there and what do they have in common? How do they differ? What do we know about their atmospheres – if they have one? What are the conditions for life and on which planets may they be met? And what’s the origin of life on Earth and how did it form? You will understand how rare the solar system, the Earth and hence life is.
This is also a book on stars. The first and second generation of stars in the Universe. But in particular also on the link between planets and stars – brown dwarfs. Their atmospheric properties and similarities with giant exoplanets.
All these fascinating questions will be answered in a non-technical manner. But those of you who want to know a bit more may look up the relevant mathematical relationships in appendices.

Reviews

“Readers certainly have a generous collection of recent books on habitable planets from which to choose. … Sengupta (Indian Institute of Astrophysics) does a commendable job of surveying the current state of knowledge. … Summing Up: Recommended. All academic, general, and professional library collections.” (K. L. Schick, Choice, Vol. 52 (10), June, 2015)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India

    Sujan Sengupta

About the author

Prof. Sujan Sengupta is Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. His research interests are Theory and Observation of Brown Dwarfs, Extra-solar Planets, Neutron stars and low mass binary stars.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Worlds Beyond Our Own

  • Book Subtitle: The Search for Habitable Planets

  • Authors: Sujan Sengupta

  • Series Title: Astronomers' Universe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09894-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09893-7Published: 07 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09894-4Published: 28 October 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1614-659X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6651

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 154

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Planetology

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