Extrasolar Planets and Their Host Stars
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Beschreibung
This book explores the relations between physical parameters of extrasolar planets and their respective parent stars. Planetary parameters are often directly dependent upon their stellar counterparts. In addition, the star is almost always the only visible component of the system and contains most of the system mass. Consequently, the parent star heavily influences every aspect of planetary physics and astrophysics. Drs. Kaspar von Braun and Tabetha Boyajian use direct methods to characterize exoplanet host starts that minimize the number of assumptions needed to be made in the process.
The book provides a background on interferometric techniques for stellar diameter measurements, illustrates the authors' approach on using additional data to fully characterize the stars, provides a comprehensive update on the current state of the field, and examines in detail a number of historically significant and well-studied exoplanetary systems.
Explains current methods of directly determining astrophysical parameters of exoplanet host stars based on interferometric techniques and how this data provides insights into the exoplanet properties Includes a comprehensive table of currently known stars with high-precision, interferometrically determined radii, as well as details on individual exoplanetary systems Offers a look into the future of the field and how researchers might approach high-priority targets and stars too faint or distant to be studied empirically
Autor*in
Kaspar von Braun
Themen in »Extrasolar Planets and Their Host Stars«
Exoplanet Atmospheres Exoplanets Detectability Extrasolar Planet Detection Fundamental Stellar Astrophysical Parameters Habitable Zones Parent Stars Exoplanets Planet Detection Interferometry Planetary System Architectures Springer Astronomy Brief