Bioastronomy — The Next Steps

Proceedings of the 99th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union held in Balaton, Hungary, June 22-27, 1987

  • George Marx
Conference proceedings

Part of the Astrophysics and Space Science Library book series (ASSL, volume 144)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xx
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  2. Astrophysical Clues to the Habitability

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. What should We Look for When We Return to Mars?
      G. A. Soffen
      Pages 3-13
    3. Water: An Absolute Requirement for Life
      A. Katsuki
      Pages 15-19
    4. Europa: The Prospects for an Ocean
      R. T. Reynolds, C. P. McKay, J. F. Kasting, S. W. Squires
      Pages 21-28
    5. Is Uranus the Most Promising Planet for SETI?
      N. G. Bochkarev
      Pages 29-30
    6. What Do We Know About the Nucleus of Comet Halley?
      K. Szegö
      Pages 31-37
    7. Comets and Life
      A. Hajduk
      Pages 39-40
    8. Distribution Of Planetary Systems
      T. V. Ruzmaikina
      Pages 41-47
    9. Belt Of Life in the Galaxy
      L. S. Marochnik, L. M. Mukhin
      Pages 49-59
    10. The Galactic Belt of Intelligent Life
      B. Balázs
      Pages 61-66
    11. Landscapes on an Imaginary Planet
      B. B. Mandelbrot
      Pages 67-76

  3. Search for Extrasolar Planets

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 77-77
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    2. Planetary Detection Techniques: An Overview
      J. D. Scargle
      Pages 79-82
    3. A Search for Planetary Mass Companions to Nearby Stars
      B. Campbell, G. A. H. Walker, S. Yang
      Pages 83-90
    4. A Radial Velocity Search for Extrasolar Planets
      R. S. McMillan, P. H. Smith
      Pages 91-92
    5. Iras Statistics on Main Sequence Stellar IR Excesses and Models of Circumstellar Particle Clouds
      D. E. Backman, F. C. Gillett
      Pages 93-99
    6. Progress in Determining the Space Orientation of Stars
      L. R. Doyle
      Pages 101-105
    7. A Photometric Approach to Detecting Earth-Sized Planets
      W. J. Borucki, L. E. Allen, W. S. Taylor, A. T. Young, A. R. Schaefer
      Pages 107-116
    8. Systematic Aspects of Direct Extrasolar Planet Detection
      Robert A. Brown
      Pages 117-123

About these proceedings

Keywords

Astrometry astronomy galaxy optical interferometry stars

Editors and affiliations

  • George Marx
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Atomic PhysicsEötvös UniversityBudapestHungary

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2959-3
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1988
  • Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-94-010-7830-6
  • Online ISBN 978-94-009-2959-3
  • Series Print ISSN 0067-0057
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