Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Historical notes on planet formation
- 2 The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: placing our Solar System in context
- 3 Destruction of protoplanetary disks by photoevaporation
- 4 Turbulence in protoplanetary accretion disks: driving mechanisms and role in planet formation
- 5 The origin of solids in the early Solar System
- 6 Experiments on planetesimal formation
- 7 Dust coagulation in protoplanetary disks
- 8 The accretion of giant planet cores
- 9 Planetary transits: a first direct vision of extrasolar planets
- 10 The core accretion–gas capture model for gas-giant planet formation
- 11 Properties of exoplanets: a Doppler study of 1330 stars
- 12 Giant-planet formation: theories meet observations
- 13 From hot Jupiters to hot Neptunes … and below
- 14 Disk–planet interaction and migration
- 15 The brown dwarf–planet relation
- 16 Exoplanet detection techniques – from astronomy to astrobiology
- 17 Overview and prospective in theory and observation of planet formation
- References
- Index
Contents
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Historical notes on planet formation
- 2 The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: placing our Solar System in context
- 3 Destruction of protoplanetary disks by photoevaporation
- 4 Turbulence in protoplanetary accretion disks: driving mechanisms and role in planet formation
- 5 The origin of solids in the early Solar System
- 6 Experiments on planetesimal formation
- 7 Dust coagulation in protoplanetary disks
- 8 The accretion of giant planet cores
- 9 Planetary transits: a first direct vision of extrasolar planets
- 10 The core accretion–gas capture model for gas-giant planet formation
- 11 Properties of exoplanets: a Doppler study of 1330 stars
- 12 Giant-planet formation: theories meet observations
- 13 From hot Jupiters to hot Neptunes … and below
- 14 Disk–planet interaction and migration
- 15 The brown dwarf–planet relation
- 16 Exoplanet detection techniques – from astronomy to astrobiology
- 17 Overview and prospective in theory and observation of planet formation
- References
- Index
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- Planet FormationTheory, Observations, and Experiments, pp. vii - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006