Infrared Space Interferometry: Astrophysics & the Study of Earth-Like Planets - Proceedings of a Workshop held in Toledo, Spain, March 11-14, 1996 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)

The past year has produced some of the most exciting results in the history of astronomy, particularly in the area of planets outside our solar system. Only a half-year before our meeting in Toledo, Spain, the first unambiguous detection of planet-sized masses orbiting main sequence stars were reported. Since that time, evidence for a new exo planet has been reported almost at the rate of about once per month. Some of these objects are likely to turn out to be very low-mass stars, but something like half show characteristics - Jupiter-like mass and near-zero orbital eccentricity - which appear to be unique to planets. Almost at the same time that giant planets were being discovered regularly, the two major space agencies, ESA and NASA, have iden tified searches for and detailed study of Earth-like planets as a major priority for the future. In ESA's "Horizon 2000 Plus" programme, an infrared interferometer has been proposed as a possible future Cor nerstone mission. Similarly, scientists in the US produced the "Road Map for the Exploration of Neighboring Planetary Systems (ExNPS)", which provided NASA with a long-term plan which leads also to an infrared interferometer in space to study hypothetical Earth-like worlds beyond our Solar System. Such an observatory is designed to search for the thermal emission from a family of planets, using interferometric nulling to remove the contaminating light from the central star.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 215
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	1997
Editors:	C. Eiroa • A. Alberdi • Harley A. Thronson Jr • T. de Graauw • C.J. Schalinski
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	322
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
ISBN-13:	978-9401063005
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > General
LSN:	9401063001
Barcode:	9789401063005

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