Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres An Introductory Overview /

• Main Author: Linsky, Jeffrey (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 955
• Subjects: Planetary science.; Astrobiology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Planetology.; Solar system.; Space sciences.; Planetary Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Solar and Heliospheric Physics .; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).

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...

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.