Series: Princeton Series in Astrophysics

The field of astrophysics is in the midst of a technologically driven renaissance, as fundamental discoveries are being made with astonishing frequency. In the last decade, new detectors in space, on earth, and deep underground have, when coupled with the computational power of modern computers, revolutionized our knowledge and understanding of the astronomical world. This is a great time for...

Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets—planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basic physical processes—including radiative transfer, molecular absorption, and chemical processes—common to all planetary atmospheres, as...