Title :  Extrasolar Planets         

 

 

Author :Hans Deeg, Juan Antonio Belmonte and Antonio Aparrico

 

Published in August 2007  by   CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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ISBN : 978-0-521-86808-2 -  268 pages – hardback

PRICE :   £75.00   $ 135.00

This volume presents the lectures from the sixteenth Canary Islands Winter School, which was dedicated to extrasolar planets. Research into extrasolar planets is one of the most exciting fields of astrophysics, and the past decade has seen research leap from speculations on the existence of planets orbiting other stars to the discovery of over 200 planets to date.

 The book covers a wide range of issues involved in extrasolar planet research, from the state-of-the-art observational techniques used to detect extrasolar planets, to the characterizations of these planets, and the techniques used in the remote detection of life. It also presents insights we can gain from our own Solar System, and how we can apply them to the research of planets in other stellar systems.

   The contributors, all of high standing in the field, provide a balanced and varied introduction to extrasolar planets for research astronomers and graduate students, with the aim of bridging theoretical developments and observational advances.

   Intended for students, researchers, lecturers and scientifically minded amateur astronomers, this book provides a suitable introduction to the field, and can form the basis for a specialist course in extrasolar planets.