Title :  Transiting Planets       

 

 

Author :Frederic Pont , Didier Queloz , Dimitar Sasselov

 

Published in April 2009  by   CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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ISBN : 978-0-521-88984-1 -  571 pages – hardback

PRICE :   £68.00   $ 135.00

 

 

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.

• Presents a complete picture of one of the largest and most exciting new fields in modern astronomy • Offers the latest research on transiting extrasolar planets from over one hundred authors • Contains the most recent results in the field, and topical reviews of planetary theory