Planetary Diversity (eBook, ePUB)

Rocky planet processes and their observational signatures
Redaktion: Tasker, Elizabeth J.; Laneuville, Matthieu; Fujii, Yuka; Hartnett, Hilairy E.; Desch, Steven J.; Unterborn, Cayman

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The last 30 years have seen an irrevocable change in the field of planetary science with the discovery of the first planets around stars other than our own Sun. While approximately 20 percent of the exoplanets we have discovered are close in size to the Earth, the similarity of their surface environment to our home world remains unknown. These conditions will be probed in the coming decade by instruments capable of observing the atmospheric and surface composition of rocky exoplanets. The signature we observe will be a complex combination of the planet's geological, chemical and physical processes.

This book presents an exploration of the potential diversity of rocky planets through a quantitative study of how planetary processes change as properties deviate from the Earth. Changes in four specific properties are considered: the presence of a magnetic field, the production and loss of internal heat, planetary composition and volatile abundance. This is an interdisciplinary venture, with each chapter examining the variation found in the planets we can explore in-situ within our solar system and the expectation of how these properties may differ - and the resulting outcomes - across the broader range of the exoplanet population. This book will be of great interest to astrophysicists and planetary scientists focusing on exoplanets. In particular, graduate students and researchers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750321402
• Artikelnr.: 60767055