Planetary Systems: Formation, Evolution, and Detection: Proceedings of the First International Conference, held in Pasadena, California on December 8–10, 1992

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Search for Other Planets: Clues from the Solar System....Pages 1-11
Formation and Evolution of Planets....Pages 13-22
Possible Consequences of Absence of “Jupiters“ in Planetary Systems....Pages 23-32
Dust Blobs in the Solar Nebula — Primary Distended Atmosphere....Pages 33-41
Formation and Properties of Fluffy Planetesimals....Pages 43-47
Radial Migration of Planetesimals....Pages 49-56
Very Low Mass Stars, Black Dwarfs and Planets....Pages 57-60
Interaction of Planetary Nebulae with Prenebulae Debris....Pages 61-65
Toward Planets Around Neutron Stars....Pages 67-75
On the Detection of Mutual Perturbations as Proof of Planets Around PSR1257+12....Pages 77-89
Planets Around Pulsars: A Review....Pages 91-106
Detection of Accreting Circumstellar Gas Around Weak Emission-Line Herbig Ae/Be Stars....Pages 107-114
The Evidence for Clumpy Accretion in the Herbig Ae Star HR 5999....Pages 115-124
Protoplanetary Dust Clouds in Disks of Herbig Ae/Be Stars....Pages 125-137
Identification of A Collapsing Protostar....Pages 139-145
Cometary-Like Bodies in the Protoplanetary Disk Around β Pictoris....Pages 147-157
Synthetic Images of Proto-Planetary Disks Around Young Stars....Pages 159-165
New Observations of the β Pictoris Circumstellar Disk with the JHU Adaptive Optics Coronagraph....Pages 167-172
Inner Part Observation of the β Pictoris Disk....Pages 173-180
The Detection and Study of Pre-Planetary Disks....Pages 181-189
Millimeter Continuum Measurements of Circumstellar Dust Around Very Young Low-Mass Stars....Pages 191-195
The Search for Protostars Using Millimeter/Submillimeter Dust Emission as a Tracer....Pages 197-214
Cold Dust Around Chamaeleon Stars....Pages 215-220
Cloudy Circumstellar Dust Shells Around Young Variable Stars....Pages 221-229
10-μM Images and Spectra of T Tauri Stars....Pages 231-238
The Nobeyama Millimeter Array Survey for Protoplanetary Disks Around Protostar Candidates and T Tauri Stars in Taurus....Pages 239-250
High-Precision VLBI Astrometric Observations of Radio-Emitting Stars for Detection of Extra-Solar Planets....Pages 251-260
Millimetre Photometry and Infrared Spectroscopy of Vega-Excess Stars....Pages 261-270
Long, Accurate Time Series Measurements of Radial Velocities of Solar-Type Stars....Pages 271-280
A High-Precision Radial-Velocity Survey for Other Planetary Systems....Pages 281-291
Multiplex Approach to the Photometric Detection of Planets....Pages 293-298
Searching for Planets by Differential Astrometry with Large Telescopes....Pages 299-319
On the Search for O 2 in Extrasolar Planets....Pages 321-325
How to Evidence Life on a Distant Planet....Pages 327-333
The Photometric Method of Extrasolar Planet Detection Revisited....Pages 335-348
TODCOR: A Two-Dimensional Correlation Technique to Analyze Stellar Spectra in Search of Faint Companions....Pages 349-356
Development of Absolute Accelerometry....Pages 357-367
Extrasolar Planet Detection....Pages 369-383
Indirect Planet Detection with Ground-Based Long-Baseline Interferometry....Pages 385-390
Direct Imaging of Planetary Systems with a Ground-Based Radio Telescope Array....Pages 391-394
Infrared and Sub-Millimeter Searches for Extra-Solar Planetary Systems from Antarctica....Pages 395-406
SIRTF: Capabilities for the Study of Planetary Systems....Pages 407-415
Planetary System Evolution and the Vega Stars: The Potential for Esa’s Infrared Space Observatory....Pages 417-422
The Edison Infrared Space Observatory and the Study of Extra-Solar Planetary Material....Pages 423-431
The Astrometric Imaging Telescope: Detection of Planetary Systems with Imaging and Astrometry....Pages 433-440
The Circumstellar Imager: Direct Detection of Extra-Solar Planetary Systems....Pages 441-452
Modelling of a Space-Based Ronchi Ruling Experiment for High-Precision Astrometry....Pages 453-463
Back Matter....Pages 465-487