Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Participants
- Preface
- Extrasolar planets: Past, present, and future
- The quest for very low-mass planets
- Extrasolar planets: A galactic perspective
- The Kepler Mission: Design, expected science results, opportunities to participate
- Observations of the atmospheres of extrasolar planets
- Planetary migration
- Observational constraints on dust disk lifetimes: Implications for planet formation
- The evolution of gas in disks
- Planet formation
- Core accretion—gas capture model for gas giant planet formation
- Gravitational instabilities in protoplanetary disks
- Conference summary: The quest for new worlds
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Participants
- Preface
- Extrasolar planets: Past, present, and future
- The quest for very low-mass planets
- Extrasolar planets: A galactic perspective
- The Kepler Mission: Design, expected science results, opportunities to participate
- Observations of the atmospheres of extrasolar planets
- Planetary migration
- Observational constraints on dust disk lifetimes: Implications for planet formation
- The evolution of gas in disks
- Planet formation
- Core accretion—gas capture model for gas giant planet formation
- Gravitational instabilities in protoplanetary disks
- Conference summary: The quest for new worlds
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- A Decade of Extrasolar Planets around Normal StarsProceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland May 2–5, 2005, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008