Exoplanet Atmospheres: Physical ProcessesPrinceton University Press, 2 de ago. de 2010 - 264 páginas 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 basic physical processes--including radiative transfer, molecular absorption, and chemical processes--common to all planetary atmospheres, as well as the transit, eclipse, and thermal phase variation observations that are unique to exoplanets.
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3 Temperature Albedos and Flux Ratios | 25 |
4 Composition of a Planetary Atmosphere | 51 |
Fundamentals | 87 |
Solutions | 103 |
7 Polarization | 133 |
8 Opacities | 145 |
9 Vertical Thermal Structure of a Planetary Atmosphere | 181 |
10 Atmospheric Circulation | 211 |
11 Atmospheric Biosignatures | 229 |
A Planetary Data | 237 |
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