Transiting Planets (IAU S253)
Title | Transiting Planets (IAU S253) PDF eBook |
Author | International Astronomical Union. Symposium |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 598 |
Release | 2009-04-16 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521889841 |
The discovery of planets around stars other than the Sun within the past 15 years has opened up one of the largest and most exciting new fields in modern astronomy. The transit method of detecting exoplanets has revealed more information about individual planets than any other method of detection. This volume, the proceedings of IAU Symposium 253, contains a description of the latest development in the field of transiting extrasolar planets. Topical reviews and short contributions from more than one hundred authors present the latest results in the field, from the photometric transit searches for transiting planets, through observational studies of these planets, to the consequences for theories of planet formation, evolution and planetary atmospheres. Presenting the latest research, it is an important resource for graduate students and researchers working in astronomy and planetary sciences.
Transiting Planets
Title | Transiting Planets PDF eBook |
Author | Frédéric Pont |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2009 |
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Proceedings of the Twenty Seventh General Assembly Rio de Janeiro 2009
Title | Proceedings of the Twenty Seventh General Assembly Rio de Janeiro 2009 PDF eBook |
Author | Ian F. Corbett |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 548 |
Release | 2010-06-03 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521768313 |
A complete record of the formal organisational and administrative proceedings of the XXVII General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union.
Extraterrestrial Seismology
Title | Extraterrestrial Seismology PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent C. H. Tong |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 467 |
Release | 2015-06-25 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1107041724 |
Taking a transdisciplinary approach to seismology, this unique book reviews the most recent developments in planetary seismology, helioseismology, and asteroseismology.
Transits of Venus (IAU C196)
Title | Transits of Venus (IAU C196) PDF eBook |
Author | D. W. Kurtz |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 554 |
Release | 2005-06-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521849074 |
IAU C196 coincided with the 8 June 2004 transit of Venus, producing the exciting, eclectic mix that can be found in these proceedings: the amazing history of the English North-country astronomers of the seventeenth century; the AU at a precision of 1.4 m; the explanation for the infamous black drop effect; a possible Mayan observation of a transit of Venus in the thirteenth century; the vexed question of leap seconds and time scales; history, distances, parallaxes, the solar system at exquisite precision and future space missions that will revolutionize astronomy.
Information Bulletin
Title | Information Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | International Astronomical Union |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 116 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Astronomy |
ISBN |
The Life of Super-Earths
Title | The Life of Super-Earths PDF eBook |
Author | Dimitar Sasselov |
Publisher | Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2012-01-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 046502193X |
An astronomy professor at Harvard University discusses the possibilities of finding other worlds that sustain alien life forms, citing recent breakthroughs in biology and exoplanetary astronomy, including the recent discovery of arsenic-based bacteria in a California lake.