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Title Strategy for the Detection and Study of Other Planetary Systems and Extrasolar Planetary Materials : 1990-2000
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1900

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Contents ""Strategy for the Detection and Study of Other Planetary Systems and Extrasolar Planetary Materials: 1990-2000""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""PREMISES OF THIS REPORT""; ""OVERVIEW AND PURVIEW""; ""NOMENCLATURE""; ""2 Basic Scientific Goals ""; ""3 Present Understanding of the Origin of Planetary Systems ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""STAR FORMATION""; ""PROPERTIES OF THE NEBULAR DISK""; ""THE EVOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL STAR""; ""FORMATION OF THE PLANETS""; ""4 Observations of Extrasolar Planetary and Protoplanetary Material ""; ""INTRODUCTION""
""MATERIAL ASSOCIATED WITH PROTOSTARS AND PRE-MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS""""GAS AND DUST DISKS AROUND MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS""; ""SUBSTELLAR OBJECTS""; ""CIRCUMSTELLAR DUST""; ""5 Observational Requirements for Identification of Extrasolar-System Planets ""; ""OBSERVATIONAL HISTORY""; ""DIRECT DETECTION""; ""INDIRECT DETECTION""; ""EVALUATION OF PROPOSED INDIRECT TECHNIQUES""; ""Astrometric Telescope Facility""; ""Doppler Spectroscopic Planet Searches""; ""Photometric Planet Searches""; ""FUTURE OBSERVING SYSTEMS""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING TECHNIQUES FOR PLANET SEARCHES""
""6 Future Investigations of Precursor Planetary Systems """"DUST-RELATED ASTROPHYSICAL STUDIES""; ""LABORATORY STUDY OF INTERSTELLAR MATERIALS""; ""PROTOSTELLAR OBSERVATIONS""; ""OBSERVATION OF PRE-MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS""; ""SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF EXTRASOLAR-SYSTEM PLANETS AND PREPLANETARY MATERIALS""; ""SUMMARY RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""7 Relation to Other Astronomical and Astrophysical Studies ""; ""FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF STARS IN THE SOLAR NEIGHBORHOOD""; ""PROPERTIES OF STAR-FORMING REGIONS""; ""THEORY OF STELLAR EVOLUTION""; ""DISKS IN ASTROPHYSICS""; ""PROBLEMS IN GALACTIC STRUCTURE""
""IMPLICATIONS REGARDING THE SEARCH FOR LIFE""""8 Recommendations ""; ""RECOMMENDED PROGRAM""; ""SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES""; ""MEASUREMENT REQUIREMENTS""; ""STRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION""; ""Appendix A The Large Star Sample Required for a Photometric Planetary Search ""; ""Appendix B List of Members Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources ""
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Subject National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration.
SUBJECT National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration. fast (OCoLC)fst00588228
Subject Planets -- Exploration.
Astronautics in astronomy -- Research -- United States
Astronautics in astronomy -- Research.
Exploration of outer space.
Lunar exploration.
Planets -- Exploration.
SUBJECT Moon -- Exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087115
Outer space -- Exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096159
Subject Moon.
Outer space.
United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780309597548
0309597544