Bøker i Programme: Aas-Iop Astronomy-serien

Planetary habitability is a vast inter-disciplinary undertaking that combines planetary science, climate science, and stellar astrophysics. This book summarizes the main processes that influence the energy balance of planetary surface environments and control the sustainability of temperate conditions.

Origins of Giant Planets is a comprehensive overview of giant planet formation aimed at new researchers in the field. Volume one covers protoplanetary disk theory, dynamics of planet-forming dust and ice, collisional grain growth, and planetesimal formation. The book is a valuable reference for astronomers and planetary scientists who study giant planets, and for graduate students studying exoplanets or planetary science.

This book covers how Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are fueled by gas (or stars), how we can account for the wide variety of AGN observed, from Seyfert/Liners to quasars, and for the two types (AGN 1 and 2) either through dust obscuration, and geometrical orientation arguments, or through intrinsic activity difference, qualitative or quantitative.