How do you find an exoplanet? / John Asher Johnson.
How do you find an exoplanet? / John Asher Johnson.
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Princeton : Princeton univ press, 2016.
Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press, [2016].
Date
2016.
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G 2016/1858
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English
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xv, 178 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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1.Introduction -- 1.1.My Brief History -- 1.2.The Human Activity of Watching the Sky -- 1.3.Asking Why the Planets Move as They Do -- 1.4.Exoplanets and Completing the Copernican Revolution -- 2.Stellar Wobbles -- 2.1.At the Telescope -- 2.2.For Every Action -- 2.3.Eccentric Orbits -- 2.4.Measuring...
5.1.The Problem of Angular Resolution -- 5.2.The Problem of Contrast -- 5.3.The Problem of Chance Alignment -- 5.4.Measuring the Properties of an Imaged Planet -- 6.The Future of Planet Hunting -- 6.1.Placing the Solar System in Context -- 6.2.Learning How Planets Form -- 6.3.Finding Life Outside th...
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Publisher
Princeton : Princeton univ press, 2016.
Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press, [2016].
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
2016.
[2016].
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Summary
An authoritative primer on the four key techniques that today's planet hunters use to detect the feeble signals of planets orbiting distant stars.--
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How do you find an exoplanet? / John Asher Johnson.
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Princeton frontiers in physics.
Includes index.
Bibliography: pages 163-169.
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G 2016/1858
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74VKVpQedDey
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVpQedDey
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9780691156811
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523.24
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991023988317302626
