Exoplanets

Edited by Sara Seager

SERIES: The University of Arizona Space Science Series

The University of Arizona Press

For the first time in human history, we know for certain the existence of planets around other stars. Now the fastest-growing field in space science, the time is right for this fundamental source book on the topic which will lay the foundation for its continued growth.

Exoplanets serves as both an introduction for the non-specialist and a foundation for the techniques and equations used in exoplanet observation by those dedicated to the field.

Editor
Contents

Sara Seager is a professor of planetary science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contents
List of Contributing Authors and Scientific Organizing Committee
Foreword
Preface x

PART I: INTRODUCTION
Introduction to Exoplanets
S. Seager and J. J. Lissauer
Keplerian Orbits and Dynamics of Exoplanets
C. D. Murray and A. C. M. Correia

PART II: EXOPLANET OBSERVING TECHNIQUES
Radial Velocity Techniques for Exoplanets
C. Lovis and D. Fischer
Exoplanet Transits and Occultations
J. N. Winn
Microlensing by Exoplanets
B. S. Gaudi
Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
W. A. Traub and B. R. Oppenheimer
Astrometric Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets
A. Quirrenbach
Planets Around Pulsars and Other Evolved Stars: The Fates of Planetary Systems
A. Wolszczan and M. Kuchner
Statistical Distribution of Exoplanets
A. Cumming

PART III: EXOPLANET DYNAMICS
Non-Keplerian Dynamics of Exoplanets
D. Fabrycky
Tidal Evolution of Exoplanets
A. C. M. Correia and J. Laskar

PART IV: EXOPLANET FORMATION AND PROTOPLANETARY DISK EVOLUTION
Protoplanetary and Debris Disks
A. Roberge and I. Kamp
Terrestrial Planet Formation
J. Chambers
Giant Planet Formation
G. D’Angelo, R. H. Durisen, and J. J. Lissauer
Planet Migration
S. H. Lubow and S. Ida

PART V: EXOPLANET INTERIORS AND ATMOSPHERES
Terrestrial Planet Interiors
C. Sotin, J. M. Jackson, and S. Seager
Giant Planet Interior Structure and Thermal Evolution
J. J. Fortney, I. Baraffe, and B. Militzer
Giant Planet Atmospheres
A. Burrows and G. Orton
Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres and Biosignatures
V. Meadows and S. Seager
Atmospheric Circulation of Exoplanets
A. P. Showman, J. Y-K. Cho, and K. Menou

Index

Related Titles