Extrasolar Planets: Saas Fee Advanced Course 31 (Hardcover, 2006)

Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets:1. Methods of Planet Detection.-2. Planet-Forming Disks.-3. The Currently Known Extrasolar Planets.-4. Radial-Velocity Surveys.-5. Gravitational Microlensing.-6. Planetary Transits and Searches for Light Reflected by Planets.-7. The Effects of Atmospheric turbulence on Astronomical Observations.-8. Introduction to Optical Interferometry.-9. Astrometry with Interferometry.-10. Nulling Interferometry.-11. Appendix Physics of Substellar Objects Interiors, Atmospheres, Evolution: 1.Introduction.-2.Our Giant Planets as a Basis for the Study of Substellar Objects.-3.Basic Equations, Gravitational Moments and Interior Structures.-4. Equations of State.-5. Opacities and Heat Transport.-6. Interior Structures of our Giant Planets: NJumerical Integrations and Results.-7.Evolution of Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs.-8. Spectra and Atmosphere.-9. Pegasi Planets. Protostellar Disks and Planet Formation:1. Introduction.-2. Observations of Protostellar Disks.-3. Theory of Disk Structure and Evolution.-4.Dust-Gas Dynamcis.-5. Growth of Planetesimals to Planets.-6. The Formation of Gas Giant Planets.-7. Planet Migration.