Exoplanet Atmospheres : : Physical Processes / / Sara Seager.
Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Series in Astrophysics ;
18 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 1 halftone. 91 illus. 8 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Intensity and Flux
- 3. Temperature, Albedos, and Flux Ratios
- 4. Composition of a Planetary Atmosphere
- 5. Radiative Transfer I: Fundamentals
- 6. Radiative Transfer II: Solutions
- 7. Polarization
- 8. Opacities
- 9. Vertical Thermal Structure of a Planetary Atmosphere
- 10.Atmospheric Circulation
- 11.Atmospheric Biosignatures
- A. Planetary Data
- Index