Books, Theses and Reports
on Extrasolar Planets and Exobiology
from the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
©,1996 Jean Schneider
Observatoire de Paris
jean.schneider@obspm.fr
update: 2 May 2005
1. Proceedings & Collective Books
2. Monographies
3. Theses and dissertations
- Proceedings & Collective Books
- Astrobiology - The quest for conditions of life
G. Horneck and C. Baumstark-Khan (eds.)
Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2002
Content
Comment
- Astrochemistry : from molecular clouds to planetary systems.
Proceedings of the 197th Symposium of the International
Astronomical Union (Sogwipo, Cheju, Korea, 23-27 August 1999)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)Series
Minh, Y.C. and Van Dishoeck, E.F. Eds.
- Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the
Search for Life in the Universe
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Bioastronomy
IAU Colloquium No. 161. Capri, July 1-5 1996
Cristiano Batalli Cosmovici, Stuart Bowyer, Dan Werthimer Eds.
Editrice Compositori, Bologna, Italy, 1997
Content
- Astronomy with High Contrast Imaging:
From Planetary Systems to Active Galactic Nuclei.
Claude Aime and Rémi Soummer (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 2003
Full text
- Astrophysics update
Mason, John W. Ed.
Springer 2004
content
- Bioastronomy: the next steps
Proceedings of the 99th Colloquium of the International Astronomical
Union held in Balaton, Hungary, June 22-27, 1987
G. Marx (Ed)
Kluwer, 1988
- Bioastronomy: the search for extraterrestrial life, the exploration
broadens
Proceedings of the Third
International Symposium on Bioastronomy, held at Val Cenis, Savoie,
France, 18-23 June 1990
Heidmann & Klein (Eds)
Springer, 1991
- Bioastronomy 1999: A New Era in Bioastronomy
Editors: G. Lemarchand & K. Meech
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2001
Content
- The Blue Dot Workshop: Spectroscopic Search for Life on Extrasolar
Planets
NASA CP 10154, D. Des Marais Ed
1997
- The Bridge between the Big Bang and Biology
Consiglio Nazionale della Richerche Scientifiche
F. Giovanelli Ed.
2001
- Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets
Rebolo R., Martin E. & Zapatero-Ozorio R. Eds.
ASP Conference Series, Vol. 134,
1998
- Circumstellar Dust Disks and Planet Formation
R. Ferlet & A. Vidal-Madjar (Ed.)
Editions Frontières, 1994
content
- Circumstellar Habitable Zones
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Habitable Zones,
San Fransisco, 1994
Doyle L. (ed.)
Travis House Publications, 1996
Review
- Debris disks and the formation of planets : a symposium in
memory of Fred Gillett
ASP conference series 324, Caroff et al Eds. 2005
Abstract
- L'environnement de la Terre primitive
Gargaud M., Despois D. & Parisot P.-P.
Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2001
abstract
and content
- Dust in the solar system and other planetary systems.
Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium 181 held at the
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 4-10 April 2000
Oxford: Pergamon, 2002
- Extrasolar Planets: Today and Tomorrow
ASP conference series 321, Beaulieu et al. Eds, 2005
Abstract
- From Stardust to Planetesimals
108th Annual Meeting of the Astron. Soc. of Pacific
ASP Series no. 122. Y. Pendelton Ed., 1996
- Frontiers of Life
Tran Thanh Van J. & K., Mounoulou J.C., Schneider J. & McKay C.
(Eds.)
Editions Frontières, 1992
ISNB 2-86332-125-0
- Gravitational collapse: from massive stars to planets
Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Serie de Conferencias
22, Garcia-Segura et al. Eds. 2004
- An Introduction to Astrobiology
Edited by Iain Gilmour, Mark A. Sephton
Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004
Contents
- Kilometric Baseline Space Interferometry
Comparison of free-flyer and moon-based versions
Report by the Space Interferometry Study Team
ESA SCI(96)7, June 1996
- Long term evolution of planetary systems
Proceedings of the Alexander von Humboldt Colloquium on Celestial
Mechanics, Ramsau, Austria, Mar. 14-18, 1988
Dvorak R. & Henrard J. Eds.
Celestial Mechanics, 43 nos. 1-4, 1988
abstract
- Origins
Proc. of the International Conference (Estes Park, Colorado, May 19 - 23
1997)
C. Woodward, J.M. Schull & H. Thronson Eds.
ASP Series no. 148, 1998
- Origins of Planets and Life
H.J. Melosh Ed.
Annual Rev. Inc., 1998
Content
- The Origins of Stars and Planetary Systems
C.J. Lada and N.D. Kylafis Eds.
Kluwer 1999
- The origins of stars and planets : the VLT view
Proceedings of the ESO workshop held in Garching, Germany, 24-27
April 2001
Alves, Joao F.
McCaughrean, Mark J. Eds., Springer, 2002
- Planetary Systems in the
Universe - Observation, Formation and Evolution.
IAU Symposium 202
Ed. A. Penny, P. Artymowicz, A.M. Lagrange, and S. Russell
ASP Conference Series, in press
- Planetary Systems: The Long View
Celnikier L & Tran Thanh Van J., Eds
Editions Frontières, 2001
- Planets around pulsars
Proceedings of the Conference, California Inst.
of Technology, Pasadena, Apr. 30-May 1, 1992
Phillips J.A., Thorsett S.E & Kulkarni S.R. (Eds.)
Astr. Soc. of Pacific, Conf. Ser. 36, 1993
abstract
- Planets Beyond the Solar System and the Next Generation of Space
Missions.
D. Soderblom Ed.
ASP Conf. series no. 119 1997
- Planets Outside the Solar System : Theory and Observations
(NATO Asi Series. Series C, Mathematical and Physical
Sciences, Vol 532)
J.M. Mariotti and D. Alloin Eds.
Kluwer 1999 ISBN: 0792357086
Book Description
- Progress in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
IAU Commission 51
ed. G. Seth Shostak
ASP Conference Series no. 74, 1996
- Protostars and planets II
D. Black & M. Matthews(Eds.)
University of Arizona Press, 1985
abstract
- Protostars and planets III
Levy E. & Lunine J. (Eds.)
University of Arizona Press, 1993
abstract
- Protostars and Planets IV
Edited by V. Mannings, A.P. Boss, and S.S. Russell
University of Arizona Press, 2000
contents and
abstract
Special issue of Icarus, Volume 143, Number 1, January 2000
Vince Mannings, Alan Boss, and Sara Russell Eds.
Content
- Qualitative and quantitative behaviour of planetary systems
Dvorak R. & Henrard J. Eds.
Kluwer, 1993
abstract
- The Search for Extra-Solar Terrestrial Planets :
Techniques and Technology
Proceedings of a
Conference Held in Boulder, Colorado, May
14-17, 1995
Shull, J. M., Thronson, Harley A. &Stern, Alan Eds.
Kluwer 1997
content
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Recent Developments
Proceedings of the Symposium IAU 112, Boston University, MA,
June 18-21, 1984
M. Papagiannis (Ed.)
Reidel, 1984
abstract
- Solar and extra-solar planetary systems
Lectures held at the
Astrophysics School XI organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral
Network (EADN) in The Burren, Ballyvaughn, Ireland, 7-18 september 1998
Williams and Thomas Eds.
Lecture notes in physics; 577
- Strategies for the search for life in the universe
M. Papagiannis (ed.)
D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1980
abstract
- Sur les traces du vivant: de la Terre aux étoiles.
F. Raulin-Cerceau, P. Léna & J. Schneider Eds.
Editions Le Pommier, 2002
ISBN 2 7464 0089 2 - 300 pages
Content
- The bottom of the main sequence--and beyond
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 10-12 August 1994
- Monographies
- Ashpole E.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Blandford Press, London, 1990
review
- Benest Daniel & Froeschlé Claude (Eds.)
Invitation aux planètes.
ESKA 1999
- Bertout Claude
Mondes lointains A la recherche d'autres
systèmes solaires.
Flammarion, 2003
abstract (in French)
- Bordé Pascal
Y a-t-il d'aures planetes habitees dans l'univers?
Le Pommier, Paris, 2004
ISBN 2 746 501 74 .0
Summary
- Boss Alan
Looking for Earths: The Race to Find New Solar Systems.
John Wiley and Sons, 1998
review by J. Lissauer
- Brahic André
Enfants du soleil.
Odile Jacob, 1999
abstract
- Clark Stuart
Life on other worlds and how to find it.
Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2000
- Clark Stuart
Extrasolar Planets: The Search for New Worlds.
Praxis Publishing Ltd, 1998
- Cohen Jack & Stewart Ian
Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial
Life.
Ebury Press/John Wiley, 2002
review
- Couper Heather & Henbest Nigel
Is Anybody Out There?
DK Publishing; ISBN: 0789427982, 1998
Content
- Croswell Ken
Planet
Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems
Free Press, 1997
Review in
New Scientist
Review
by SEDS.
- Dick Steven
Life on Other Worlds.
The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
Cambridge Univ. Press 1998
- Dole Stephen H.
Habitable planets for man
American Elsevier Pub. Co., 1970
- Dorminey Bruce
Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System
Springer Verlag, October 2001
Comment
Review
- Freudenthal Hans
LINCOS. Design of a language for cosmic intercourse.
in Studies in Logic and Foundations of Mathematics Series.
Noth Holland Publishing Company. 1960.
Review
- Goldsmith Donald & Owen Tobias
The search for life in the universe
Addison-Wesley, 1992
- Goldsmith Donald
Worlds Unnumbered: The Search for Extrasolar Planets
University Science Books, 1997, ISBN 0-935702-97-0
review 1
and review 2
- Gonzalez Guillermo & Richards Jay
The Priviledged Planet
Regnery Publishing, 2004
Review
- Grady Monica
Astrobiology
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001
abstract
- Grinspoon David
Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life.
- Halpern Paul
The Quest for Alien Planets: Exploring Worlds outside the Solar System.
Plenum Press, 1997
Review
by SEDS.
- Harrison Albert
After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life
Plenum Press, 1997
abstract
- Jacobsen Theodor
Planetary Systems from the Ancient Greeks to Kepler.
University of Washington Press, 1999
- Jakosky Bruce
The Search for Life on Other Planets
Cambridge University Press, 1998
- Jayawardhana Ray
Star Factories: The Birth of Stars and Planets.
Steck-Vaugh, 2000
- Jones B.
Life in the Universe: The Solar System and Beyond
Praxis Publishing Ltd, 1998
in press
- Labremont Alfred
Exopolitics: A Decade of Contact
UniverseBooks.com, 2000
full text
- Levay Simon & Koerner David
Here Be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life.
Oxford Univ Press, 2000
ISBN: 0195128524
Review
- Lewis John S.
Worlds Without End: The Exploration of Planets Known and Unknown.
Helix Books, 1998
ISBN 0-7382-0011-5
- Mayor Michel & Frei Pierre-Yves
Les nouveaux mondes dans le cosmos
Le Seuil, 2001
- Mayor Michel & Frei Pierre-Yves
New worlds in the cosmos : the discovery of exoplanets.
Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Papaloizou John & Terquem Caroline
Protostellar discs and Planetary System Formation
Praxis Publishing Ltd, 1998
in press
- Raulin François, Raulin-Cerceau Florence & Schneider
Jean
La Bioastronomie
PUF Que-Sais-Je? no. 3316, 1997
Abstract
- Schilling Govert
Tweelingaarde
De speurtocht naar leven in andere planetenstelsels
Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam 1997
- Schneider Reto
Planetenjäger
(German)
Forword by Michel Mayor
Birkhauser 1997
review
- Schulze-Makuch Dirk & Irwin Louis
Life in the Universe.
Springer 2004
ISBN: 3-540-20627-2
Summary and
table of contents
- Shostak Seth
Sharing the Universe: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life.
Berkeley Hills Books, 1998
review
- Ulmschneider Peter
Intelligent Life in the Universe.
From Common Origins to the Future of Humanity.
Springer, 2004
ISBN: 3-540-43988-9
Summary and
table of contents
- Vidal-Madjar Alfred
Il pleut des planètes
Hachette, 1999
- Ward Peter & Brownlee Donald
Rare Earths -
Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe.
Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. 361 pp. ISBN
0-387-98701-0.
Rare Earth
homepage
Review by C. McKay
- Webb Stephen
If the universe is is teeming with aliens.. where is everybody?
Sringer ISBN 0-387-95501-1, 2002
Review
- White F.
The SETI Factor
Walker and Company, 1990
review
- Theses and dissertations
- Suzanne Aigrain
Planetary transits and stellar variability.
IoA, University of Cambridge. January 25, 2005
Full text
- Pascal Bordé
Detection and characterization of extrasolar planets using very high
precision photometry and infrared interferometry (in French)
Paris, 27 October 2003
Full text
- Nuno Cardoso-Santos
New Studies on Stars with Giant Planets
Geneva, June 2002
Full text
- David Charbonneau
Shadows and Reflections of Extrasolar Planets"
Harvard University, 2001
full text
- Rudolfo Cionco
Sobre la formacion de sistemas de planetas
gigantes en une ambiante nebular estandar
La Plata, Argentina, Marzo 2004
- Diane Dutkevitch
The Evolution of Dust in the Terrestrial Planet Region of
Circumstellar Disks Around Young Stars
Amherst, 1995
Full text
- Jonathan Fortney
The Evolution of Giant Planets.
Tucson, AZ, USA, 2004
Full text
- Carlos de la Fuente Marcos
Dynamics and growth of dust grains in the protoplanetary nebula.
Madrid, 2001
- Heather Hauser
Three Dimensional Orbits Determined Using Astrometric and Doppler Data.
(Master Thesis)
full text
- Lisa Kaltenegger
Search for Extra-Terrestrial planets: The DARWIN mission - Target Stars
and Array Architectures.
Graz, Austria, 2004
abstract and
full text
- Ben Lane
High precision infra-red stellar interferometry.
February 20, 2003
full text
- T. Joseph Lazio
Genetic Algorithms, Pulsar Planets, and Ionized Interstellar
Microturbulence
Cornell, May 1997
abstract
in PASP (sept. 1997) and
full text
- Christian Marois
La recherche de naines brunes et d'exoplanetes: developpement d'une
technique d'imagerie multibande.
Montreal, 8 October 2004
Summary
- Jeremy Richardson
Infrared Spectroscopy of the Transiting Extrasolar Planet
HD 204958 b During Secondary Eclipse.
University of Colorado, 2003
full text
- Mark Snellgrove
Migration,
Resonance and Turbulence in Protoplanet-Disk Interactions
Queen Mary, University of London, 2003
- Daren Williams
The stability of habitable planetary environments.
Pennsylvania State University, 1998
Full text
- Keiko Yoshinaga
Stability of Protoplanet Systems. (Master Thesis)
Full
text