| #3656676 in Books | Springer | 2008-12-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.81 x6.14l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 344 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Very Good Exposition of Extra-Solar Planets|By Jim|This book is an excellent introduction to Extra-solar planets. I used it as a good "starting" or "jump-off" text into the area of exoplanets in terms of a research paper I had to write about this subject, i.e., to give me an overview of the subject and to lead me into the published scientific literature. The text is very well-w
Over the past ten years, the discovery of extrasolar planets has opened a new field of astronomy, and this area of research is rapidly growing, from both the observational and theoretical point of view. The presence of many giant exoplanets in the close vicinity of their star shows that these newly discovered planetary systems are very different from the solar system. New theoretical models are being developed in order to understand their formation scenarios, and new ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Planetary Systems: Detection, Formation and Habitability of Extrasolar Planets (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library) | Marc Ollivier, Thérèse Encrenaz, Francoise Roques, Franck Selsis, Fabienne Casoli. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
