Accretion, 95-96, 142-143, 164 Accretion rate, 142, 152, 153, 155 Adaptive optics, 55, 273 AFOE, 248, 251 Airy function, 49, 50 ALADDIN, 246,281,282 Albedo, 234
u Andromedae, 33, 175, 188-189, 219, 220, 221, 222 Angular separation, 22-23, 65, 67 Apodization coronagraph, 52, 53 APT,257 Aquinas, 2 Arecibo, 325, 326 Aristotle, 1 ASAS-3, 257 ASP, 257
Astrometry, 25-31, 72, 250-255, 269
Binary system, 144-145, 176, 189, 191 Bipolar flux, 93
Black-Body emission, 330-332 Brahe, 2
Brown dwarf, 15, 71, 191, 215, 255, 329 Bruno, 1,2,293 Buridan, 2
Cancellation interferometry, 59-62 Carbon, 117, 294-295, 334 CARLINA, 273-274
Cassini, 85, 86, 87, 89, 120, 121, 123, 317, 318 Cassini-Huygens, 85 CCD, 29, 247, 248, 259, 260
Cell, 298-299 CETI, 325-326 Chandrasekhar, 6 CHARRA, 279-280
Chemical composition, 18, 86, 90, 101-102,
112-116,297 Chirality, 305-306 Circumstellar cloud, 229, 300 Circumstellar environment, 139 Clairaut, 201 Cloud structure, 111-112 Collapse, 4, 14, 15, 17, 85, 92, 146, 150,
151, 162 Collapse of the nebula, 92, 95 Collision, 94, 95, 99, 104, 161, 218 Comet, 90, 115, 126-127, 155, 156 Condensation, 92-95 Continuously habitable zone, 233, 234 Contrast, 21-22, 23, 225 Copernicus, 2, 134 CORALIE, 251 Coronagraph, 48-55, 273, 277 Coronagraphy, 59, 139 CoRoT, 42, 130, 246, 256-262, 263, 264
Dark fringe interferometry, 59, 62, 281, 283,
285, 287 Darwin, 201, 229, 236, 239, 246 DARWIN, 62, 65, 281, 283-288 Debris disk, 156-161, 193-195 Deep Space 1, 125 Degree of coherence, 55, 56, 58 Density, 40, 74, 82, 110, 135, 178, 201, 213 Density structure, 102, 157, 210 Descartes, 3
D/H ratio, 108, 118-119, 125, 126, 225 Diffraction, 47, 49, 52
Digges,2
Direct detection, 46, 143, 254, 288-291
Doppler, 7, 25
Drake, 324, 326
DUO, 266
Dust, 155-156, 191
303-306 Eccentricity, 16, 78-80 Electromagnetic spectrum, 100-101 Elodie, 8
Enceladus, 123, 317, 320 Enrichment, 116 Epicurus, 1, 293 Equations of state, 201-203 EUCLID, 269-270 Europa, 316-317, 320, 334 Evolutionary model, 206-208 Exo-Earth, 236-239 Exoplanet, 197-241 Exosystem, 21, 55, 283
FKSI, 288 Flare, 143, 149 Fontenelle, 3, 4, 293
Galilean satellites, 85, 122, 179, 316-317
Galilei, 2
Gemini Planet Imager, 273
GENIE, 246, 281,282
120-121, 198-208 Giant exoplanet, 198, 214-225 Giant planet, 40, 179, 213, 215, 223, 239 GITPO, 257
GJ 876, 182, 186, 187-188 Gravitational microlensing, 42, 45, 130, 266 Greenhouse effect, 109, 233, 235
Habitability, 228-239 Habitable location, 311-319 Habitable planet, 198, 237 Habitable zone, 229-236, 319-321 Hale-Bopp, 126, 155, 156 Halley, 90, 126
HD 202206, 174, 189-191 HD 209458, 40, 265, 266
HD 69830, 175, 191, 193,240 HD 82943, 173, 175, 182, 186, 188 Helium, 14,81,203,334 Herodotus, 1
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, 14, 133, 151,
332-334 Hipparcos, 29, 72, 253, 255 Hot jupiter, 22,23,34,38 Hot neptune, 219, 239-241 HR4796A, 131, 157-158 HRS/HET, 251
Hubble Space Telescope, 13, 93, 214, 265, 276 Huygens, 4, 85, 123, 293, 318, 319 Hydrogen, 18, 116, 202-203, 334 Hypertelescope, 62-65
Imaging, 31, 250, 270-279 Indirect detection, 24-46 Interferometry, 29, 30, 55-65, 246, 254,
279-288 Internal structure, 198-214 Interstellar medium, 133-135 IRAS, 13, 134, 139, 157, 301 IRAS 21282+5050, 301 IRS, 219, 220, 265, 275 Isotopic ratio, 116-119, 127
James Webb Space Telescope, 40, 276-277 Jupiter, 204, 207, 208
Keck Precision Adaptive Optics System, 273 Kepler, 2, 42, 263-264 Kepler's Law, 27, 31, 32, 33, 37, 39, 69, 74, 330
Kinematics of disks, 141 Kuiper Belt, 90, 130
Kuiper belt, 15, 85, 90, 98, 127, 129, 130, 131, 179
Large Binocular Telescope, 63, 252, 280
Life, 293-326
LINC NIRVANA, 252, 280
Liquid Water, 294-295, 303
Low-mass object, 28, 45, 199
Lucretius, 1, 293
MACHO, 43, 45, 266 Macromolecule, 296-297, 306-307 Magnus, 2
Main Sequence, 149-151
2MASS 1207, 80,271
Membrane, 299, 307
Metallicity, 82
Meteoritic Bombardment, 303-305 MICROFUN, 267 Microlensing Planet Finder, 268 Migration, 177-184
Migration mechanism, 178, 180-182, 184 Miller and Urey, 293, 301-302 MOA, 46, 266, 267
Molecular cloud, 15, 92, 134, 135-136
MONET, 257
MOST, 265
Multiple systems, 176
Murchison meteorite, 303, 304, 305, 307
MUSES-C, 125
NAOS-CONICA, 55, 246, 271, 272 NEAR, 125
205-206, 239 Newton, 4 NICMOS, 158, 265 Nucleation, 15-17 Nucleic Acid, 297-298 Nulling interferometry, 281
Observatoire de Haute Provence, 8, 247, 273 Ocean planet, 211, 213 OGLE, 44, 46, 256, 257, 266, 267 Okham, 2
Orbital characteristics, 36, 170-172, 175 Organic material, 121, 299-301 Organic molecules, 294, 301-306
PASS, 257
Phase-mask coronagraph, 51,54 Photometric curve, 261 P Pictoris, 13, 127, 131, 157, 194, 195 Planck's radiation law, 330 PLANET, 45, 266-267 Planet, 6, 15, 32
Planetary atmosphere, 101-105, 197 Planetary Embryos, 133, 161-165, 225, 311
Planetary transit, 37, 261, 322 Planetesimal, 19, 90, 92, 95, 98, 161-165,
181, 213 Planetoid, 16, 92, 96, 118, 158 PLATO, 265
Pluto, 15, 85, 86, 98, 102, 124, 128 Poincare, 201 Polymerization, 306, 307 Polymers, 296, 306 Prebiotic material, 299-306 PRIMA, 31,246,250 Primitive nebula, 91 Primordial Earth, 301, 303-306, 310 Protoplanet, 165
179,180 Protostar, 147, 148, 151 PSR 1257+12, 10, 36, 70, 80, 186, 191,
Radial velocity, 251
Radioactive decay, 91, 308
Reducing atmosphere, 302, 309-310
Resonance, 76
Rings, 98, 120-124
Rotation, 143-144, 176-177, 201, 256, 282 Sagan, 323, 324
Satellites, 98, 120-124, 334, 335 Saturn, 96, 98, 104, 110, 119, 121, 204,
207,317 Schiaparelli, 311, 313, 314 Scrambler, 249 SETI, 323, 325-326 Signature of life, 229, 322-323 SIM, 31,246,254-255 SIM-LITE, 254 SKA, 66, 67, 246, 291 Small bodies, 87, 88-90, 98, 124-129 Solar nebula, 153, 154, 155, 163 Solar System, 13-20, 85-131, 177-179, 213,
311-319 SOPHIE, 251
Spectral classification of stars, 332-334 Spectrograph, 275, 277 Spectroscopic observation, 159, 321 Spectrum, 100-101 SPITZER, 274-276 Stability, 150, 185-191
Standard model, 15, 18, 91-99
STARE, 256, 257, 258
Stefan's law, 330-332
STELLA, 257
Stellar accretion, 142-143
Stellar evolution, 302
Stellar formation, 230
Stellar luminosity, 230
STIS, 159, 265
Sub-dwarf, 80
Sugar, 298
Super Earth, 213,278
Telluric exoplanet, vi Telluric planet, vi Temperature structure, 104 Temporal-spatial coherence, 55, 56 Terrestrial planet, 40, 62, 214, 228, 236, 239,
263, 277, 283 Terrestrial Planet Finder, 62, 214, 277, 278, 283
Terrestrial-type exoplanet, 208-214, 228, 249 Thermal emission, 34, 62, 105, 214, 219,
230, 233 Thermal equilibrium, 74 Thermal structure, 102-104, 107-108, 112
Tidal effects, 176, 184, 188 Timing, 35
Titan, 102, 122, 123, 317-320 Trans-Neptunian Object, 15 TrES-1, 216, 219, 222, 225, 256, 275 47 Tucanae, 265
UCLES, 251
Velocimetry, 6-9, 31-35, 246-250
229, 230, 237, 302 Visibility, 56, 58, 59, 60 VLT, 246,271,279,281,282 VLT-I, 246, 279,281,282 Voyager, 86, 97, 115, 120, 121, 199, 205, 316, 317,318
Water, 117, 294-295, 311, 316 Wolszczan, 10, 36, 191
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