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" Extra-solar planets : "
[edited by] B. A. Steves, M. Hendry, A. C. Cameron
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BL
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664693
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Extra-solar planets : : the detection, formation, evolution and dynamics of planetary systems /\ [edited by] B. A. Steves, M. Hendry, A. C. Cameron
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Boca Raton, FL :: CRC Press,, c2011
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Scottish graduate series
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xvii, 289 p. :: ill., maps ;; 25 cm
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9781420083446 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 1420083449 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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pt. I. Detection of extra-solar planets : methods and observations. Detection of extra-solar planets in wide-field transit surveys ; The theory of planet detection by gravitational microlensing : blips and dips from the gravitational bending of light ; The practice of planet detection by gravitational microlensing : studying cool planets around low-mass stars ; Modelling spectroscopic and polarimetric signatures of exoplanets -- pt. II. Formation and evolution of planetary systems. Proto-planetary discs - current problems and directions ; Debris discs and planetary environments ; Dynamical evolution of planetary systems ; Late stages of solar system formation and implications for extra-solar systems -- pt. III. Dynamics of planetary systems. A brief account of mutual planetary perturbations ; Fundamentals of regularization in celestial mechanics and linear perturbation theories ; Mechanisms for the production of chaos in dynamical systems ; Extra-solar multiplanet systems ; The stability of terrestrial planets in planetary systems ; Did the two Earth poles move widely 13,000 years ago? An astrodynamical study of the Earth's rotation
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Extrasolar planets
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523.2/4
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QB820.E98 2011
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Steves, Bonnie A
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Hendry, M., (Martin)
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Cameron, A. C
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Extrasolar planets
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