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Alien skies : planetary atmospheres from Earth to exoplanets / / Frédéric J. Pont
Alien skies : planetary atmospheres from Earth to exoplanets / / Frédéric J. Pont
Autore Pont Frédéric
Edizione [1st ed. 2014.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (159 pages)
Disciplina 500.5
520
523.4
530
Soggetto topico Extrasolar planets - Atmospheres
Planets - Atmospheres
ISBN 1-4614-8554-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Earth’s atmosphere: A new look at an old friend -- Venus and Mars -- Titan and life without water -- Gas giant planets: from Jupiter to hot Jupiters -- Exotic worlds -- Back to Earth.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910484408303321
Pont Frédéric  
New York : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
Materiale a stampa
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Exoplanetary Atmospheres : Theoretical Concepts and Foundations / / Kevin Heng
Exoplanetary Atmospheres : Theoretical Concepts and Foundations / / Kevin Heng
Autore Heng Kevin
Pubbl/distr/stampa Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Disciplina 523.8/3
Collana Princeton Series in Astrophysics
Soggetto topico Extrasolar planets
Extrasolar planets - Atmospheres
ISBN 0-691-16698-6
Classificazione US 7400
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword by Sara Seager -- Preface -- 1. Observations of Exoplanetary Atmospheres: A Theorist's Review of Techniques in Astronomy -- 2. Introduction to Radiative Transfer -- 3. The Two-Stream Approximation of Radiative Transfer -- 4. Temperature-Pressure Profiles -- 5. Atmospheric Opacities: How to Use a Line List -- 6. Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry -- 7. A Hierarchy of Atmospheric Chemistries -- 8. Introduction to Fluid Dynamics -- 9. Deriving the Governing Equations of Fluid Dynamics -- 10. The Shallow Water System: A Fluid Dynamics Lab on Paper -- 11. The de Laval Nozzle and Shocks -- 12. Convection, Turbulence and Fluid Instabilities -- 13. Atmospheric Escape -- 14. Outstanding Problems of Exoplanetary Atmospheres -- Appendix A: Summary of Standard Notation -- Appendix B: Essential Formulae of Vector Calculus -- Appendix C: Essential Formulae of Thermodynamics -- Appendix D: Gibbs Free Energies of Various Molecules and Reactions -- Appendix E: Python Scripts for Generating Figures -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910154296603321
Heng Kevin  
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
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