Red dwarfs : their geological, chemical, and biological potential for life / David S. Stevenson.
Stevenson, David S., 1968- author.
2019
QH326 .S84 2019eb
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Title Red dwarfs : their geological, chemical, and biological potential for life / David S. Stevenson.
Author Stevenson, David S., 1968- author.
Uniform Title Under a crimson sun
Edition Second edition.
ISBN 9783030255503 (electronic book)
3030255506 (electronic book)
9783030255497
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25550-3
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25
Published Cham : Springer, [2019]
Copyright ©2019
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-25550-3 doi
10.1007/978-3-030-25
Call Number QH326 .S84 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 576.8/39
Summary This book offers an insight into the habitability of planets, including Earth, and how this changes as time progresses and the central star evolves. It examines life in all its complexity on a tidally locked super-Earth called Gliese 581 d.
Note First edition published in 2013 as Under a crimson sun.
Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 23, 2019).
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Preface
Chapter 1: The Formation of Stars and Planets at the Bottom of the Main Sequence
Chapter 2: Exoplanetary Discovery
Chapter 3: Planetary Tectonism
Chapter 4: Deep Cycles and Super-Terrans
Chapter 5: Atmospheric Circulation and Climate
Chapter 6: The Origin and Early Evolution of Life
Chapter 7: The Niche, Its Hypervolume and the Entropy of Existence
Chapter 8: The Failure of Early Optimism
Chapter 9: A New Hope
Glossary
Index.

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