The Search for Extra-Solar Terrestrial Planets: Techniques and Technology

Proceedings of a Conference held in Boulder, Colorado, May 14-17, 1995

164 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Preface.- Planetary Atmosphere Evolution: Do Other Habitable Planets Exist and Can we Detect Them?.- Ways that Our Solar System Helps Us Understand the Formation of Other Planetary Systems and Ways that it Doesn't.- Photometric Search for Extrasolar Planets.- Radial Velocity Searches for Other Planetary Systems: Current Status and Future Prospects.- Demonstration of Photon-Noise Limit in Stellar Radial Velocities.- Aspects of Astrometric Searches for Other Planetary Systems.- Astrometric Detection of Earth-Like Planets with OSI.- Astrometry from Space: GAIA and Planet Detection.- Ground-Based Interferometry.- FRESIP: A Mission to Determine the Character and Frequency of Extra-Solar Planets Around Solar-Like Stars.- The Darwin Project.- Public Involvement in Extra-Solar Planet Detection.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Astronomie, Raum und Zeit Observatorien, Ausrüstungen und Methoden
• ISBN: 9780792344742
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.03.1997
• Größe: 241 x 160 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: Harley A. Thronson Jr., S. Alan Stern, J. M. Shull