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Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments

Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments

Hardcover

Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Book 411

Astronomy & SpaceGeologyPhysics

ISBN10: 3319097482
ISBN13: 9783319097480
Publisher: Springer
Published: Nov 17 2014
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In this book an international group of specialists discusses studies of exoplanets subjected to extreme stellar radiation and plasma conditions. It is shown that such studies will help us to understand how terrestrial planets and their atmospheres, including the early Venus, Earth and Mars, evolved during the host star's active early phase. The book presents an analysis of findings from Hubble Space Telescope observations of transiting exoplanets, as well as applications of advanced numerical models for characterizing the upper atmosphere structure and stellar environments of exoplanets. The authors also address detections of atoms and molecules in the atmosphere of hot Jupiters by NASA's Spitzer telescope. The observational and theoretical investigations and discoveries presented are both timely and important in the context of the next generation of space telescopes.

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