THE PLANET FACTORY: EXOPLANETS AND THE SEARCH FOR A SECOND EARTH
Book ID/图书代码： 02000014B73561
English Summary/英文概要： Fifteen years ago, the search for planets – and life – outside the Solar System was a job restricted to science fiction writers. It is now one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy, with more than 4,600 of these‘exoplanets’ discovered so far. The detection
of these worlds has only been possible in the last decade, with the number of discoveries increasing enormously over the last year following the findings of the Kepler Space Telescope.
There have been some truly stunning recent discoveries, not least the fact that there seem to be planetary systems around pretty much every star. Drilling down closer to learn more about individual planets we encounter ‘MegaEarth’,for example, Kepler-
10c, which is made of rocks like our planet but is 17 times bigger, and orbits its sun in just 45 days; Kepler 16 orbits around a binary star system, while Kepler 11 has five stars, all closer in orbit to their star than Mercury is to the Sun. Perhaps most intriguing of all was the discovery in April 2014 of an Earth-sized planet that lies in the ‘goldilocks zone’ – an area of space where temperatures potentially allow water to exist in its liquid state, with this planet therefore capable of theoretically supporting oceans.
The Planet Factory tells the story of exoplanets. It discusses their way planets form, their structure and features, and describes in detail the detection techniques used (there are
many) before looking at what we can learn about the surface environments and planetary atmospheres, and whether this hints at the tantalizing possibility of life.
An informative and entertaining read, The Planet Factory takes the reader to the cutting edge of the ongoing search for worlds like our own, and the hints of life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 天文学最热门的领域 硬科幻必备背景资料
寻找《星球大战》中的“双日世界”
解密在科幻故事中孕育了变形金刚、三体人的半人马座ɑ系统
了解宇宙最伟大的构造方案 解释星系的构造和组成
捕捉系外行星 发现第二个地球
20年前，寻找太阳系以外的行星的工作仅限于科幻小说作家，而现在它是天文学中增长最快的领域之一，迄今为止已经发现了数千颗系外行星，且这个数字还在迅速上升。在过去的十年里，在开普勒太空望远镜发明之后，这些探测才成为可能。这些新发现的世界比小说中的任何东西都更陌生：比木星大的行星，寿命只有一周；两个太阳照亮的天空, 或根本没有太阳；围绕恒星死亡残骸旋转的行星——这种多样性的发现只是一个开始，将来有可能发现一个完整的星系。
《寻找第二个地球：系外星球和行星工厂》就讲述了系外行星以及系外行星围绕系外恒星运行的故事。系外行星是宇宙中最伟大的构造方案之一，它们几乎出现在你所看到的每一颗恒星的周围，本书讨论了这些行星的构成方式、结构和特征，并详细描述了所使用的探测技术，然后着眼于我们熟悉的表面环境和行星大气层，暗示了生命存在的可能。(DB)
Awards/获奖情况：A precious compendium on what we can say about the formation of planets, and how much our knowledge has progressed in recent years. (Nature)
Packed with interesting insights and scientific content that capably captures the current state of exoplanet research. (Sky at Night)
About the Author/作者介绍： 伊丽莎白·塔斯克，天体物理学家，专门研究恒星和行星在星系中的形成计算模型。在获得理论物理学位后，她继续在牛津完成博士学位，然后在美国哥伦比亚大学、佛罗里达大学、加拿大麦克马斯特大学进行博士后研究，目前在日本宇宙航空研究开发机构担任副教授。
曾在1999年获得《每日电讯报》青年科学作家奖，为《科学美国人》和《天文》杂志供稿，并在Nautilus、the Conversation和space撰写博客。
Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist who spends her time building fake universes inside a computer. After a degree in theoretical physics, she went on to complete her doctorate at Oxford before moving across to the United States and Canada to build stars on any computer she was given access to. She later crossed the globe again to Japan, and is now an associate professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Elizabeth has been a keen science communicator for many years and has written for Scientific American and Astronomy Magazine, as well as articles for sites that include Nautilus, the Conversation and space.com.
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