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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.

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Author:   C. Eiroa ,  A. Alberdi ,  Harley A. Thronson Jr. ,  T. de Graauw
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Volume:   215
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.551kg
ISBN:  

9789401063005

ISBN 10:   9401063001
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   15 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Scientific Case.- The formation of planetary systems (invited).- High resolution spectroscopy of Vega-like stars.- Infrared observations of planetary atmospheres (invited).- Detection of planets via microlensing (invited).- Detection of planetary spectral features through circumstellar dust: a montecarlo simulation.- Evolution and spectra of extrasolar giant planets (invited).- Life signatures on exoplanets (invited).- Molecular gas production in the ?-Pictoris disk.- Planets in CM-Draconis: a multi-site photometric search.- Epicurus was right: other worlds exist! (invited).- Array configurations to detect and characterize extrasolar planets with a space infrared interferometer.- Resolving disks in YSOs (invited).- Ground-based optical/IR long baseline interferometry (invited).- Infrared interferometry with the VLTI.- Imaging with a space-based infrared interferometer (invited).- Infrared interferometry of active galaxies (invited).- Dusty disks around main sequence stars (invited).- Comet-like bodies around the Herbig Ae star BF Ori.- Stellar death: ejecta and circumstellar matter (invited).- 2. Instrumental and Technical Cases.- Kilometric baseline space interferometry (invited).- The measurement of directional radiative properties with applications to passively cooled space telescopes.- Concepts for a precursor space interferometry mission with a microsatellite.- Light weight SiC foamed mirror for telescope to be operated in space.- Recent advances in cryogenic optics technology for space infrared telescope and interferometer systems (invited).- Interfero-coronagraphy using pupil ?-rotation.- ASIX: the ASTRO-SPAS interferometer experiment.- Passive cooling of infrared interferometers in space (invited).- FLITE: free-flyer laser interferometer technologyexperiment.- Advances in satellite data compression and noisefiltering by virtue of parallel computing.- Design of infrared space interferometers (invited).- The next generation space telescope (NGST).- High accuracy optical visibilities on long baselines: first results and prospects.- The COAST project (invited).- Prospects for direct imaging from the ground (invited).- Active cooling systems (invited).- Space interferometry mission (invited).- The infrared imaging surveyor (IRIS) project.- Planet finder options II (invited).- Planet finder options III (invited).- Workshop Summary (invited).- Object Index.- Author Index.

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