Exoplanetary Atmospheres : : Theoretical Concepts and Foundations / / Kevin Heng.
The study of exoplanetary atmospheres-that is, of planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system-may be our best hope for discovering life elsewhere in the universe. This dynamic, interdisciplinary field requires practitioners to apply knowledge from atmospheric and climate science, astronomy and as...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Series in Astrophysics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 30 line illus. 8 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Sara Seager
- Preface
- 1. Observations of Exoplanetary Atmospheres: A Theorist's Review of Techniques in Astronomy
- 2. Introduction to Radiative Transfer
- 3. The Two-Stream Approximation of Radiative Transfer
- 4. Temperature-Pressure Profiles
- 5. Atmospheric Opacities: How to Use a Line List
- 6. Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry
- 7. A Hierarchy of Atmospheric Chemistries
- 8. Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
- 9. Deriving the Governing Equations of Fluid Dynamics
- 10. The Shallow Water System: A Fluid Dynamics Lab on Paper
- 11. The de Laval Nozzle and Shocks
- 12. Convection, Turbulence and Fluid Instabilities
- 13. Atmospheric Escape
- 14. Outstanding Problems of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
- Appendix A: Summary of Standard Notation
- Appendix B: Essential Formulae of Vector Calculus
- Appendix C: Essential Formulae of Thermodynamics
- Appendix D: Gibbs Free Energies of Various Molecules and Reactions
- Appendix E: Python Scripts for Generating Figures
- Bibliography
- Index