Origins: From the Protosun to the First Steps of Life (IAU S345) (Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposia and Colloquia) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108471609 ISBN 13: 9781108471602

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

This comprehensive collection of reviews and research reports covers the processes involved in the formation of the Sun and Earth-like planets. Specific topics range from star formation to protoplanetary disks, planet formation, and the basics of life. It provides an interdisciplinary overview of the complex chain of events leading to habitable planets and life, covering research from the fields of astrophysics, astrochemistry, planetary sciences, chemistry, and biology, through theory, observations, and experiments. These observations reveal the chemistry and dust content of young disks, the location of water that is essential to life, and some of the dynamical processes that affect the growth of forming planets. IAU Symposium 345 reviews some of the most modern concepts in star and planet formation and is essential reading for students, teachers, and researchers who will someday answer humanity's biggest question: what is our origin?

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Book Description

This collection covers the processes involved in the formation of the Sun and Earth-like planets. Specific topics range from star formation to protoplanetary disks, planet formation, and the basics of life. It provides an interdisciplinary overview of the complex chain of events leading to habitable planets and life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108471609
• ISBN 13: 9781108471602
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 418
• Editor: Elmegreen Bruce G., Tóth L. Viktor, Güdel Manuel