Autore |
Heng Kevin
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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Disciplina |
523.8/3
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Collana |
Princeton Series in Astrophysics
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Soggetto topico |
Extrasolar planets
Extrasolar planets - Atmospheres
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ISBN |
0-691-16698-6
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Classificazione |
US 7400
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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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
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