Planetary diversity : rocky planet processes and their observational signatures / edited by Elizabeth J. Tasker, Cayman Unterborn, Matthieu Laneuville, Yuka Fujii, Steven J. Desch, Hilairy E. Hartnett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tasker, Elizabeth J., editor.

Unterborn, Cayman, editor.

Laneuville, Matthieu, 1987- editor.

Fujii, Yuka, editor.

Desch, Steven J., 1970- editor.

Hartnett, Hilairy E., editor.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

AAS-IOP astronomy. 2021 collection.

AAS-IOP astronomy. [2021 collection], 2514-3433

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Extrasolar planets--Geology.

Extrasolar planets.

Extrasolar planets--Surfaces.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

Planetary Diversity

Rocky planet processes and their observational signatures.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

Elizabeth J. Tasker is an Associate Professor in astrophysics at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Her research focuses on the formation of stars and planets through hydrodynamical simulations and machine learning algorithms. Tasker is also a science communicator, writing principally on the subject of exoplanets and solar system exploration. Her popular science book, The Planet Factory, was published in 2017. Cayman Unterborn received his Ph.D. in Geologic Science in 2016 from The Ohio State University. He is currently a research scientist in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. His primary area of research is the characterisation of exoplanet interiors, specifically the impact of host-star compositional variation and planetary formation on terrestrial planet geochemical and geophysical diversity. Matthieu Laneuville received his Ph.D. in Geophysics in 2013 from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. He joined the Earth-Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2014 as a research scientist. He is now project associate professor in that same institute and focuses his research on characterising the possible diversity of rocky planets based on our understanding of processes from bodies in our solar system. Yuka Fujii is an Associate Professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Her primary area of research is the characterization of exoplanets with a focus on the strategies to study the surface environment of potentially habitable exoplanets. Steven J. Desch is a Professor of Astrophysics in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. His speciality is in applying meteoritic data to constrain models of how the Sun's protoplanetary disk evolved, and he has worked on solving the problems of chondrule formation, the formation of calcium-rich, aluminium-rich inclusions, and the origins of the short-lived radionuclides. Hilairy E. Hartnett is a Professor, jointly appointed in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University. She is an oceanographer and organic geochemist whose research focuses on carbon and nitrogen cycling in aquatic systems that range from urban wetlands, to rivers, hot springs, and oceans both here on Earth and on exoplanets.

Summary:

The last thirty years have seen an irrevocable change in the field of planetary science with the discovery of the first planets around stars other than our own Sun. While approximately twenty percent of the exoplanets we have discovered are close in size to the Earth, the similarity of their surface environment to our home world remains unknown. This book presents an exploration of the potential diversity of rocky planets through a quantitative study of how planetary processes change as properties deviate from the Earth. Changes in four specific properties are considered: the presence of a magnetic field, the production and loss of internal heat, planetary composition and volatile abundance.

Contents:

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 budget of rocky planets / Bradford J Foley, Christine Houser, Lena Noack and Nicola Tosi

5. The composition of rocky planets / Cayman Unterborn, Laura Schaefer and Sebastiaan Krijt

6. The volatile content of rocky planets /. Steven J. Desch, Dorian Abbot, Sebastiaan Krijt, Cayman Unterborn, Guillaume Morard and Hilairy E. Hartnett.

Notes:

"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 14, 2021).

ISBN:

9780750321396

0750321393

9780750321402

0750321407

OCLC:

1231598960