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The Architecture of Exoplanets
Space Science Reviews, 2016Prior to the discovery of exoplanets our expectations of their architecture were largely driven by the properties of our solar system. We expected giant planets to lie in the outer regions and rocky planets in the inner regions. Planets should probably only occupy orbital distances 0.3–30 AU from the star.
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2018
The landscapes of exoplanets are likely to be incredibly diverse: exoplanets come in a large range of sizes and masses, and therefore surface gravities. Atmospheres can be thick layers, or absent. The interior makeup of exoplanets is even harder to know, but the formation scenarios of the giant planets and the remains of planets found in white-dwarf ...
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The landscapes of exoplanets are likely to be incredibly diverse: exoplanets come in a large range of sizes and masses, and therefore surface gravities. Atmospheres can be thick layers, or absent. The interior makeup of exoplanets is even harder to know, but the formation scenarios of the giant planets and the remains of planets found in white-dwarf ...
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The History of Exoplanet Detection
Astrobiology, 2012I summarize the early developments of the more quantitative aspects of exoplanet detection. After a brief overview of the observational methods currently applied to exoplanet searches and a summary of the first true exoplanet detections resulting from these various techniques, the more relevant historical background is organized according to the ...
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2011
This is admittedly a personal and idiosyncratic journey through the history of discoveries and events, facts and ideas, possibilities, wild speculations and pure inventions relating to our understanding of planets, exoplanets, life and alien life. Nonetheless it should enable the reader to appreciate that the origins of the very recent, modern and ...
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This is admittedly a personal and idiosyncratic journey through the history of discoveries and events, facts and ideas, possibilities, wild speculations and pure inventions relating to our understanding of planets, exoplanets, life and alien life. Nonetheless it should enable the reader to appreciate that the origins of the very recent, modern and ...
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