Exoplanets:detection, formation, properties, habitability

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: (John W.); Mason John.
Published: Springer, in association with Praxis Pub., Chichester, UK,
Publisher Address: Berlin New York
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and planetary sciences
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74008-7
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xx, 314 p.): ill. (some col.)
ISBN: 9783540740087 (electronic bk.)
3540740082 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: P185
CLC: P185
P15
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Detection methods and properties of known exoplanets / Patrick G.J. Irwin -- Detection of exoplanet surveys : from gingle object to multiple objects / Jian Ge -- Detection of extrasolar planets by gravitational microlensing / David P. Bennett -- Formation and evolution of terrestrial planets in protoplanetary and debris disks / George H. Rieke -- The brown dwarf-exoplanet connection / I. Neille Reid, Stanimir A. Metchev -- Close-orbiting exoplanets : formation, migration mechanisms and properties / Hugh R.A. Jones, James S. Jenkins & John R. Barnes -- Dynamics of multiple planet systems / Rory Barnes -- Searching for exoplanets in the stellar graveyard / Steinn Sigurdsson -- Formation, dynamical evolution and habitability of planets in binary star systems / Nader Haghighipour -- Planetary environmental signatures for habitability and life / Victoria S. Meadows -- Moons of exoplanets: habitats for life? / Caleb A. Scharf.