Solar and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems - Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School XI Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN) in The Burren, Ballyvaughn, Ireland, 7-18 September 1998

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.

List of contents

- 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: N. Thomas (Editor), Nicolas Thomas (Editor), I. P. Williams (Editor), I.P. Williams (Editor), Iwan P. Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2009
• EAN: 9783540425595
• ISBN: 978-3-540-42559-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Weight: 635 g
• Illustrations: XVIII, 258 p. 35 illus., 10 illus. in color.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics; Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Geophysik, B, Sonnensystem: Sonne und Planeten, Biologie, Biowissenschaften, Astronomie, Raum und Zeit, Geophysics, Astronomy, space & time, Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astronomy—Observations, Observations, Astronomical, Geophysics/Geodesy, Space Physics, Space sciences, Astrobiology, UFOs & extraterrestrial beings