Formation and Evolution of Exoplanets

✍ Scribed by Rory Barnes

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This single, coherent review of the theory behind extrasolar planet formation and interaction systematically covers all aspects of the topic, including different formation processes, planet-planet scattering, giant planets and brown dwarfs. With a chapter on observation, careful referencing and an elaborate bibliography at the end of each chapter, this is indispensable reading for researchers, theorists and observers alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter......Page 1
Exoplanet Observations......Page 15
Pinpointing Planets in Circumstellar Disks......Page 40
Planet-Planet Interactions......Page 61
Formation via Disk Instability......Page 83
Core-Accretion Model......Page 112
Formation of Terrestrial Planets......Page 134
Brown Dwarfs......Page 155
Exoplanet Chemistry......Page 167
Migration and Multiplicity Effects during Giant Planet Formation......Page 197
Planets in Mean-Motion Resonance......Page 213
Planet-Planet Gravitational Scattering......Page 233
Tides and Exoplanets......Page 252
Index......Page 276

✦ Subjects

Физика;Астрономия и астрофизика;Планетология;