Solar and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems [electronic resource] : Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School XI Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN)in The Burren, Ballyvaughn, Ireland, 7–18 September 1998 / edited by Iwan P. Williams, Nicolas Thomas.
Material type: TextSeries: Lecture Notes in Physics ; 577Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2001Description: XVIII, 258 p. 35 illus., 10 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:- text
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- QB495-500.269
— Solar and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems -- The Solar System: An Overview -- Setting the Scene: A Star Formation Perspective -- Extrasolar Planets: A Review of Current Observations and Theory -- The Giant Planets -- The Formation of Planets -- Dynamics of the Solar System -- Photometry of Resolved Planetary Surfaces -- Mercury — Goals for a Future Mission -- Physical Processes Associated with Planetary Satellites -- Light Scattering in the Martian Atmosphere: Effects on Surface Photometry -- The Small Bodies of the Solar System -- Dust in the Solar System and in Other Planetary Systems -- Meteors, Meteor Showers and Meteoroid Streams.
Both the high level of activity in worldwide space exploration programmes and the discovery of extra-solar planets have spurred renewed interest in the physics and evolution dynamics of solar systems. The present book has grown out of a set of lectures by leading experts in the field within the framework of the well-known EADN summer schools. It addresses primarily graduate students and young researchers but will be equally useful for scientists in search of a comprehensive tutorial account that goes beyond the material found in standard textbooks.
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