This volume addresses a new opportunity in the planetary sciences—to extend our exploration outward to discover and study planetary systems that may have formed or are forming around other stars.
It concludes that a coordinated program of astronomical observation, laboratory research, theoretical development, and understanding of the dynamics and origins of whatever may be found would be a technologically feasible and potentially richly rewarding extension of the study of bodies within the solar system.
- Strategy for the Detection and Study of Other Planetary Systems and Extrasolar Planetary Materials: 1990-2000
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- 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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