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  title info:
    title: Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres
    sub title: An Introductory Overview
  name:
    name part: Linsky, Jeffrey.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 273 p. 143 illus., 104 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Like planets in our solar system, exoplanets form, evolve, and interact with their host stars in many ways. As exoplanets acquire material and grow to the final size, their atmospheres are subjected to intense UV and X-radiation and high-energy particle bombardment from the young host star. Whether a planet can retain its atmosphere and the conditions for significant mass loss both depend upon the strength of the host star's high-energy radiation and wind, the distance of the exoplanet from its host star, the gravitational potential of the exoplanet, and the initial chemical composition of the exoplanet atmosphere. This introductory overview describes the physical processes responsible for the emission of radiation and acceleration of winds of host stars that together control the environment of an exoplanet, focusing on topics that are critically important for understanding exoplanetary atmospheres but are usually not posed from the perspective of host stars. Accordingly, both host stars and exoplanets are not studied in isolation but are treated as integrated systems. Stellar magnetic fields, which are the energy source for activity phenomena including high-energy radiation and winds, play a critical role in determining whether exoplanets are habitable. This text is primarily for researchers and graduate students who are studying exoplanet atmospheres and habitability, but who may not have a background in the physics and phenomenology of host stars that provide the environment in which exoplanets evolve. It provides a comprehensive overview of this broad topic rather than going deeply into many technical aspects but includes a large list of references to guide those interested in pursuing these questions. Nonspecialists with a scientific background should also find this text a valuable resource for understanding the critical issues of contemporary exoplanet research.
  table of contents: Why are Host Stars Important for Understanding Exoplanet Atmospheres? -- Stellar activity-phenomenology and general principles -- Magnetic Fields-the Source of Stellar Activity -- Stellar Chromospheres-the Source of UV Emission -- Stellar Coronae-the Source of X-ray Emission -- Reconstructing the Missing Stellar Emission -- Stellar Winds -- Correlations of Observables with Stellar Age and Rotation -- Stellar Space Weather-Connecting Host Stars to Their Exoplanets - Host Star Driven Exoplanet Mass Loss -- Host Star Driven Photochemistry in Exoplanet Atmospheres -- Star-Planet Interactions (SPI)-Real or Imaginary? -- Final Comments and Speculation.
  note: by Jeffrey Linsky.
  subject:
    topic: Planetary science
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric sciences
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Solar system
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Planetary Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Astrobiology
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Solar and Heliospheric Physics
  subject:
    topic: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
  classification: QB600-701
  classification: 523.2
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Physics, 955
  identifier: 9783030114527
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11452-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 190523
    record change date: 20191025101204.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-11452-7