This volume presents the lectures from the sixteenth Winter School of the Instituto de Astrof?sica de Canarias, which was dedicated to extrasolar planets. Research into extrasolar planets is one of the most exciting fields of astrophysics, and the past decade has seen a research leap from speculatio
Extrasolar Planets
β Scribed by Belmonte J. A.
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 284
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Broad introduction to extrasolar planets for graduate students and research astronomers.
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