Planets to Cosmology
Subtitle: Essential Science in the Final Years of the Hubble Space Telescope (Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series)
Contributors: Mario Livio (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 24, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521847582
Subjects: Cosmology & the universe; Solar system; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Astrophysics & Space Science; Science / Astrophysics & Space Science; Astronomy; Congresses; Research; Space telescopes
First sentence: When both the photometric transits and the radial velocity variations due to an extrasolar planet are observed, we are granted access to key quantities of the object that Doppler monitoring alone cannot provide.