Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 342 pages
- Published by: Springer
- Edition: 1st Edition December 17, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 3540757473
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-3540757474
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Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Review
From the reviews:
"This volume has a very informative subtitle. The main sections really do deal with detection, properties, formation processes, dynamics, and the search for life (habitability) of what, within the text, are generally called exoplanets … . There are lots of images, graphs, and tables, and a moderate number of equations … . So far I have ‘fair used’ one table and one drawing for instructional purposes and think it likely that you, too, will find useful items in this book." (Virginia Trimble, The Observatory, Vol. 129 (1210), June, 2009)
Reader Reviews
This book is an excellent introduction to Extra-solar planets. I used it as a good "starting" or "jump-off" text into the area of exoplanets in terms of a research paper I had to write about this subject, i.e., to give me an overview of the subject and to lead me into the published scientific literature. The text is very well-written. There are many helful illustrations, all nicely captioned, and each chapter has a very good bibliography that I very much appreciated in breaking into the scientific papers out there. For a subject still in its infancy, the authors were able to provide a nice break-down of the scientific findings rapidly developing as new exoplanets are being found at an amazing clip. Interestingly, during the course of preparing my paper (over two months), the number of exoplanets went up from 370 to just over 400. The number is now beyond this.
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