The Exoplanet handbook

The Exoplanet handbook

With the discovery of planets beyond our solar system 25 years ago, exoplanet research has expanded dramatically, with new state-of-the-art ground-based and space-based missions dedicated to their discovery and characterisation. With more than 3,500 exoplanets now known, the complexity of the discovery techniques, observations and physical characterisation have grown exponentially. This Handbook ties all these avenues of research together across a broad range of exoplanet science. Planet formation, exoplanet interiors and atmospheres, and habitability are discussed, providing in-depth coverage of our knowledge to date. Comprehensively updated from the first edition, it includes instrumental and observational developments, in-depth treatment of the new Kepler mission results and hot Jupiter atmospheric studies, and major updates on models of exoplanet formation. With extensive references to the research literature and appendices covering all individual exoplanet discoveries, it is a valuable reference to this exciting field for both incoming and established researchers.

-The first edition (2011) won the Association of American Publishers' PROSE Award for Cosmology and Astronomy

-The book is illustrated with more than 400 figures of important physics and phenomena at work

-An in-depth bibliography provides an entry point to detailed research literature

-Includes concise appendices with hyperlinks which provide scientific notes on each confirmed exoplanet

Michael Perryman

Cambridge university press

2018

second edition

Engels

PLA0667

9781108419772