Index

ABCD detection, 148abundance profiles, 336achromatic null, 181achromatic phase shifts, 189adiabats, 249Alfven velocity, 393ammonia, 250, 251Angel’s Cross, 206anisoplanatism, 156azimuthal drag, 405

Babinet’s Principle, 15bandwidth smearing, 148baroclinic instabilities, 392barotropic equilibrium, 262baseline vector, 144Bond albedo, 345Brunt-Vaisala frequency, 395Bracewell, 206

CaTiO3, 337caustic, 82centrifugal force, 260chondritic meteorites, 442chondrules, 413Clausius–Clapeyron, 334close-in planets, 43conductive opacity, 289corotation radius, 398Coulomb potential, 269coupling parameter, 269

DARWIN, 181, 207degenerate gaz, 268

deuterium, 253, 273diffusion approximation, 280diskaccretion luminosity, 380angular momentum, 386mass conservation, 384mass flux, 388Rayleigh’s criterion, 390temperature-weighted mass, 377two-layer model, 376

dual-star system, 168dusty brown dwarfs, 342

eccentricity decay, 46Eddington approximation, 254Einstein radius, 78, 83Einstein ring, 78energy conservation, 253EOSmodels, 275polarization, 275hydrogen, 275

epicyclic frequency, 395

Fraunhofer diffraction, 135Fresnel scale, 141Fried parameter, 135frozen turbulence hypothesis, 139

GAIA, 171GEST, 93giant planetsmass, 244

Gruneisen parameter, 278

450 Index

grain growth, 340gravitational moments, 245, 263gravity field, 244

Hayashievolution track, 347forbidden region, 347

helium, 246ionization, 271sedimentation, 317

Helmoltz free energy, 267Hill sphere, 60, 417Hot Jupiters, 42hot spot, 250Hufnagel turbulence profile, 157hydrogen, 246metallic, 269PPT, 276

Hydrostatic equilibrium, 425hydrostatic equilibrium, 253, 262

Iodine Absorption cell, 73irradiated planets, 259isoplanatic angle, 140

Jeans criterion, 23Jupiterage, 316core, 301, 427formation, 425growth, 428red spot, 251tropopause, 254

Kelvin–Helmoltz instability, 356kinematic viscosity, 387Kolmogorov model, 130

Lane-Emden equation, 256Legendre polynomials, 261LiH, 325Lindblad resonances, 398, 435local thermodynamic equilibrium, 373Lorentzian line profile, 284luminosity, 253

magnetic fields, 246Marechal approximation, 138metallicity excess, 49methane, 250, 251

migrationtype I, 438type II, 438

millisecond pulsars, 6MkIII Interferometer, 153modal filter, 186moist convection, 338monoatomic gas, 259monochromatic opacity, 280

narrow-angle astrometry, 168Neptuneformation, 425

Neutron star disks, 8null depth, 182, 188nulling array, 201

OASES, 206object

β Pic, 31ιDra, 44εEri, 3016 Cyg B, 5047UMa, 5551 Oph, 3351 Peg, 7555 Cancri, 3855Cancri, 5470 Vir b, 44B1620−26, 8BP Tau, 379CMDra, 121Gliese 876, 55, 161GMAur, 26HD209458, 112, 344HD 141569 A, 30HD 166435, 68HD 192263, 68HD 4796 A, 30HD 80606, 44HD 82943, 49HD 83443, 51HD 89744 b, 44HD12661, 57HD168443, 57HD37124, 57HD38529, 58HD74156, 58HD82943, 58

Index 451

HH-30, 26HLTau, 26KH 15D, 31LkCa7, 379MACHO 97-BLG-41, 94MACHO 98-BLG-35, 94OGLE-TR-3, 118OGLE-TR-56, 118OGLE#7, 82Orion Trapezium, 26PSR B1257+12, 6UXOrionis, 33WWVul, 33

Oort Cloud, 31

particule growth, 407Pauli principle, 271perfect gaz, 269phase diagram, 271planetalbedo, 123figure, 260

PLANET collaboration, 94planetaryrings, 252systems, 51

polytropic index, 256Poynting-Robertson drag, 28PPI cycle, 320Prandtl number, 294

Q dissipation factor, 352

Rankine–Hugoniot relations, 272Rayleigh criterion, 136Rayleigh scattering, 287Reynolds number, 294, 412Roche lobe overflows, 351Rossbynumber, 294waves, 403

Rosseland opacity, 285runaway growth, 307

satellites, 252irregular, 252

saturated atmosphere, 338

saturation pressure, 335Saturnformation, 425

scintillation, 142secular resonance, 59SED, 371SIM, 163, 173, 177Simultaneous Thorium Technique, 72solid body rotation, 264strehl ratio, 137, 138, 195Stroke mismatch, 155structure function, 131superadiabatic temperature gradient,

390

Taylor columns, 294Taylor–Proudman, 251temperature gradient, 337temperature profile, 249Thermal escape, 351thermometric conductivity, 289tidal circularization, 45tidal dissipation, 46tidal torque, 432TiO, 337tip-tilt, 195Toomre’s criterion, 398torque density, 436transitdepth, 103duration, 102egress, 103ingress, 103

tropopause, 298turbulence height, 141

Uranusformation, 425

visibility, 151VLBI, 164

Wiener-Khinchin Theorem, 132windszonal, 358

WKB approximation, 395