Searching for habitable worlds : an introduction /
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Author / Creator: | Méndez, Abel, author. |
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Imprint: | San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016] Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2016] |
Description: | 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color). |
Language: | English |
Series: | [IOP release 2] IOP concise physics, 2053-2571 IOP (Series). Release 2. IOP concise physics. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11319940 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Exploring Earth and beyond
- 1.1. Curiosity
- 1.2. Observations from afar
- 1.3. Personal visits
- 1.4. Robotic visits
- 2. The ABC of exoplanets
- 2.1. What is a planet?
- 2.2. What is an exoplanet?
- 2.3. Detecting exoplanets
- 3. When is a planet habitable?
- 3.1. What is life?
- 3.2. The concept of habitability
- 3.3. Measuring habitability
- 4. Cataloguing habitable exoplanets
- 4.1. The first habitable worlds?
- 4.2. The habitable exoplanets catalog
- 4.3. The periodic table of exoplanets
- 5. Potentially habitable worlds
- 5.1. The planets we know by mass
- 5.2. The planets we know by size
- 6. And the search goes on ...
- 6.1. The observatories
- 6.2. NASA's Kepler
- 6.3. NASA's TESS
- 6.4. ESA's Plato
- 6.5. NASA JWST.