"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why does habitability matter? -- 1.2. Defining habitability -- 1.3. The terrestrial planet demographic2. Habitability factors -- 2.1. An intricate puzzle -- 2.2. Stellar astrophysics -- 2.3. Planetary properties -- 2.4. The planetary system -- 2.5. A statistical approach3. Nature's fusion reactors --…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The scientific legacy of giant-planet research -- 2. The planet-forming environment -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Disk evolutionary phases and spectral energy distributions -- 2.3. A simple analytical disk model -- 2.4. Model extensions : adding complexity3. Microscopic to macroscopic : grain growth and pebble formation -…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is a planet? -- 1.2. Solar system overview -- 1.3. Brief remarks on this text -- 1.4. Important terms -- 1.5. Chapter 1 homework questions2. Energy from the sun -- 2.1. Energy generation in the sun -- 2.2. Blackbody curves and luminosity -- 2.3. The inverse square law -- 2.4. The equilibrium t…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. The dawn of Doppler measurements -- 1.2. Early work on stellar radial velocity measurements -- 1.3. Toward precise stellar radial velocity measurements -- 1.4. The early hints of exoplanets -- 1.5. The 51 Peg revolution -- 1.6. The Doppler method2. The instruments for Doppler measurements -- 2.1. E…
"Version: 20181001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. In the beginning -- 1.2. What is “life”? -- 1.3. The Miller-Urey experiment -- 1.4. General background and definitions2. What is the origin of the lightest elements? -- 2.1. The Big Bang -- 2.2. The Supernova Cosmology Project, the High-Z Supernova Project, and the SHOES Collaboration -- 2.3. T…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.The challenges in understanding the diversity of rocky planets -- 1. Observations of exoplanets / Elizabeth J. Tasker and Yuka Fujii -- 2. Formation of a rocky planet / Elizabeth J. Tasker -- 3. Magnetic fields on rocky planets / Matthieu Laneuville, Chuanfei Dong, Joseph G. O'Rourke and Adam C. Schneider -- 4. The heat b…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. What can be learned from modern data? -- 2.1. Strength of solar flares -- 2.2. Solar particle events -- 2.3. Major geomagnetic storms3. State-of-the-art theory and modeling -- 3.1. Solar and stellar dynamos -- 3.2. Particle acceleration at the sun4. Cosmogenic isotopes as proxies for solar energetic …
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Prelude -- 2. The NASA Kepler and K2 missions / John Troeltzsch and Steve B. Howell -- 3. Exoplanets / Jessie L. Christiansen, Stephen R. Kane, Susan E. Mullally, Steve B. Howell, David R. Ciardi, Calen B. Henderson, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Fergal Mullally and Rachel Street -- 4. Stellar astrophysics with Kepler and K2 /…