Books and Theses on Extrasolar Planets and Exobiology

From the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
Maintained by © 2010 Jean Schneider
Observatoire de Paris, jean.schneider@obspm.fr


1. Collective Books
2. Theses and dissertations

1. Collective Books :

 1)   Exoplanet Atmospheres
Sara Seager
Princeton Series in Astrophysics
ISBN 978-0-691-14645-4
 2)   Transits and Occultations
WINN J.
in EXOPLANETS, ed. S. Seager
paper
 3)   Exoplanetary Microlensing
GAUDI B.
in EXOPLANETS, edited by S. Seager, Space Science Series of the University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ)
paper
 4)   Planetary systems
Ollivier M., Encrenaz Th., Roques F., Selsis F. & Casoli F.
Springer
ISBN: 978-3-540-75747-4
full book
 5)   The Crowded Universe. The Search for Living Planets
Alan Boss
Basic Books ISBN 978-0-465-00936-7
Review
 6)   La vie dans l'univers - Réflexions d'un physicien
Freeman Dyson
Gallimard
ISBN 978-2-07-012148-9
Review
 7)   SIM Lite Astrometric Observatory
Full Book
 8)   Habitability and Cosmic Catastrophes
Arnold Hanslmeier
Springer
Table of Centents
 9)   Other worlds than ours; the plurality of worlds studied under the light of recent scientific researches
Richard Anthony Proctor
New York, D. Appleton and company, 1871.
full book
 10)   Life in space.
Astrobiology for everyone

Lucas Mix
Harvard University Press
 11)   Planets and planetary systems
Stephen Eales
Wiley-Blackwell
 12)   Formation, Dynamical Evolution, and Habitability of Planets in Binary Star Systems
HAGHIGHIPOUR N.
Chapter 9 of Exoplanets: Detection, Formation, Properties, Habitability, (Berlin: Springer, 2008), Page:223-257
paper
 13)   Atmospheric Circulation of Exoplanets
SHOWMAN A., CHO J. & MENOU K.
chapter in EXOPLANETS, edited by S. Seager (Space Science Series of the University of Arizona Press)
full text
 14)   Life in the Universe A Beginner's Guide
Lewis Dartnell
Oneworld Publications
Outlook
 15)   Quest for extraterrestrial life
Chris Impey
Random House, 2007
Review
 16)   Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future
Jeffrey Bennett
Princeton Univ. Press, 2008
ISBN 978-0-691-13549-6
Review
 17)   Astrobiology
Fred Bortz
ISBN 0822567717
Presentation
 18)   Extrasolar Planets: Saas Fee Advanced Course 31
Cassen P., Guillot T. & Quirrenbach A. Eds.
Springer, ISBN 3540292160
 19)   Small bodies in planetary systems
Mann, Nakamura, Mukai eds., Springer
Content
 20)   Tidal Effects in Stars, Planets and Disks
M.-J. Goupil and J.-P. Zahn (eds)
EAS Publications Series Vol. 29
Full Text
 21)   Young Nearby Loose Associations
TORRES C., QUAST G., MELO C. & STERZIK M.
in Handbook of Star Forming Regions Vol. II, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008 Bo Reipurth, ed.
paper
 22)   The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book
Crowe Michael
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008)
 23)   Life in the Universe
(Second Edition)

Bennett & Shostak
Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Addison Wesley
Companion Website
 24)   Exoplanet Observing For Amateurs
Gary Bruce
Reductionist Publications
ISBN 978-0-9798446-3-8
Full text
 25)   Extrasolar Planets
Rudolf Dvorak Ed.
Springer
in press
 26)   Extrasolar Planets: Formation, Detection and Dynamics
Rudolf Dvorak (Editor)
Wiley
Content
 27)   Formation planétaire et explanètes
Halbwachs J.-L., Egret D. et Hameury J.-M.
in Ecole de Goutelas 2005
Full Text
 28)   Planet Formation
Hubert Klahr & Wolfgang Brandner
Cambridge University Press,
Content
 29)   Planets to cosmology : essential science in the final years of the Hubble Space Telescope
Marioa Livio and Stefano Casertano
Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland, May 3-6, 2004 Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press
 30)   Tenth Anniversary of 51 Peg-b: Status of and prospects for hot Jupiter studies.
Edited by L. Arnold, F. Bouchy and C. Moutou.
Full text
Published by Frontier Group, Paris (ISBN-2-914601-17.4). Publishing date 02/2006.
Courtesy of Frontier Group.
 31)   Extrasolar planets
Casse, P., Guillot T. & Quirrenbach A. Eds
Saas-Fee Advanced Course 31, Grimentz, Switzerland, April 2001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006). XII, 451 S.. ISBN: 3-540-29216-0
 32)   A l'écoute des planètes
Raulin-Cerceau F.
Editions Ellipse
 33)   Extrasolar Planets
Cassen, P., Guillot, T., Quirrenbach, A.
Content
 34)   Civilized Life in the Universe
George Basalla
Oxford University Press
Presentation
 35)   Animals, Extraterrestrial Life and Anthropocentrism in the Seventeenth Century
Nathaniel Wolloch
Chapter from Subjugated animals; animals and anthropocentrism in early modern European culture Humanity Books. ISBN 1591024943
full text
 36)   2nd International Symposium on Formation Flying Missions and technologies
Full text (zip file)
 37)   Dynamics of Populations of Planetary Systems.
IAU Symposium 197

Cambridge U. Press
content
 38)   Worlds Unnumbered: The Search for Extrasolar Planets
Goldsmith Donald
University Science Books, 1997, ISBN 0-935702-97-0
review 1
 39)   Na senda dos seres vivos: da terra às estrelas
Raulin-Cerceau Florence, Léna Pierre and Schneider Jean
Instituto Piaget, Lisboa, Portugal, 2005
ISBN 972-771-752-7
 40)   Fitness of the cosmos for life: Biochemistry and fine-tuning
John Barrow, Simon Morris, Stephen Freeland and Charles Harper, eds.
Cambridge University Press, in press.
 41)   Planètes extrasolaires
Casoli Fabienne & Encrenaz Thérèse
Editions Belin,
Content
 42)   Infinite Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets Beyond Our Solar System
Ray Villard and Lynette R. Cook
University of California Press
ISBN 0-520-23710-2
Review
 43)   The Birth of Stars and Planets
John Bally & Reipurth Bo
Cambridge Univ. Press
Content
 44)   Life As We Do Not Know It
Peter Ward
Viking
Presentation
 45)   Astrophysics update
Mason, John W. Ed.
Springer 2004
content
 46)   An Introduction to Astrobiology
Edited by Iain Gilmour, Mark A. Sephton
Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004
Contents
 47)   Y a-t-il d'aures planetes habitees dans l'univers?
Bordé Pascal
Le Pommier, Paris, 2004
ISBN 2 746 501 74 .0
Summary
 48)   The Priviledged Planet
Gonzalez Guillermo & Richards Jay
Regnery Publishing, 2004
Review
 49)   Life in the Universe.
Schulze-Makuch Dirk & Irwin Louis
Springer 2004
ISBN: 3-540-20627-2
Summary and table of contents and review
 50)   Intelligent Life in the Universe.
Ulmschneider Peter
From Common Origins to the Future of Humanity.
Springer, 2004
ISBN: 3-540-43988-9
Summary and table of contents
 51)   Astronomy with High Contrast Imaging:
From Planetary Systems to Active Galactic Nuclei.
Claude Aime and Rémi Soummer (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 2003
Full text
 52)   Mondes lointains A la recherche d'autres systèmes solaires.
Bertout Claude
Flammarion, 2003
abstract (in French)
 53)   New worlds in the cosmos : the discovery of exoplanets.
Mayor Michel & Frei Pierre-Yves
Cambridge University Press, 2003
 54)   Astrobiology - The quest for conditions of life
G. Horneck and C. Baumstark-Khan (eds.) Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2002
Content
Comment
 55)   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
 56)   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
 57)   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
 58)   Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life.
Cohen Jack & Stewart Ian
Ebury Press/John Wiley, 2002
review
 59)   If the universe is teeming with aliens.. where is everybody?
Webb Stephen
Sringer ISBN 0-387-95501-1, 2002
Review
 60)   Bioastronomy 1999: A New Era in Bioastronomy
Editors: G. Lemarchand & K. Meech
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2001
Content
 61)   The Bridge between the Big Bang and Biology
Consiglio Nazionale della Richerche Scientifiche
F. Giovanelli Ed.
2001
 62)   L'environnement de la Terre primitive
Gargaud M., Despois D. & Parisot P.-P.
Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2001
 63)   Planetary Systems: The Long View
Celnikier L & Tran Thanh Van J., Eds
Editions Frontières, 2001
 64)   Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System
Dorminey Bruce
Springer Verlag, October 2001
Comment
Review
 65)   Astrobiology
Grady Monica
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001
abstract
 66)   Les nouveaux mondes dans le cosmos
Mayor Michel & Frei Pierre-Yves
Le Seuil, 2001
 67)   Protostars and Planets IV
Edited by V. Mannings, A.P. Boss, and S.S. Russell
University of Arizona Press, 2000
Special issue of Icarus, Volume 143, Number 1, January 2000
Vince Mannings, Alan Boss, and Sara Russell Eds.
contents, Content
 68)   Life on other worlds and how to find it.
Clark Stuart
Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2000
 69)   Star Factories: The Birth of Stars and Planets.
Jayawardhana Ray
Steck-Vaugh, 2000
 70)   Exopolitics: A Decade of Contact
Labremont Alfred
UniverseBooks.com, 2000
full text
 71)   Here Be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life.
Levay Simon & Koerner David
Oxford Univ Press, 2000
ISBN: 0195128524
Review
 72)   Planetary systems in the universe : observation, formation and evolution
Proceedings of the 202nd symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Manchester, United Kingdom, August 7-10, 2000 (ASP), 2004. Penny Alan, Artymowicz Pawel, Lagrange, Anne-Marie & Russell Sara Eds
 73)   The Origins of Stars and Planetary Systems
C.J. Lada and N.D. Kylafis Eds.
Kluwer 1999
 74)   Invitation aux planètes.
Benest Daniel & Froeschlé Claude (Eds.)
ESKA 1999
 75)   Enfants du soleil.
Brahic André
Odile Jacob, 1999
 76)   Planetary Systems from the Ancient Greeks to Kepler.
Jacobsen Theodor
University of Washington Press, 1999
 77)   Il pleut des planètes
Vidal-Madjar Alfred
Hachette, 1999
 78)   Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets
Rebolo R., Martin E. & Zapatero-Ozorio R. Eds.
ASP Conference Series, Vol. 134,
1998
 79)   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
 80)   Origins of Planets and Life
H.J. Melosh Ed.
Annual Rev. Inc., 1998
Content
 81)   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
 82)   Looking for Earths: The Race to Find New Solar Systems.
Boss Alan
John Wiley and Sons, 1998
review by J. Lissauer
 83)   Extrasolar Planets: The Search for New Worlds.
Clark Stuart
Praxis Publishing Ltd, 1998
 84)   Is Anybody Out There?
Couper Heather & Henbest Nigel
DK Publishing; ISBN: 0789427982, 1998
Content
 85)   Life on Other Worlds.
Dick Steven
The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
Cambridge Univ. Press 1998
 86)   The Search for Life on Other Planets
Jakosky Bruce
Cambridge University Press, 1998
 87)   Life in the Universe: The Solar System and Beyond
Jones B.
Praxis Publishing Ltd, 1998
in press
 88)   Worlds Without End: The Exploration of Planets Known and Unknown.
Lewis John S.
Helix Books, 1998 ISBN 0-7382-0011-5
 89)   Protostellar discs and Planetary System Formation
Papaloizou John & Terquem Caroline
Praxis Publishing Ltd, 1998
in press
 90)   Sharing the Universe: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life.
Shostak Seth
Berkeley Hills Books, 1998
review
 91)   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
 92)   The Blue Dot Workshop: Spectroscopic Search for Life on Extrasolar Planets
NASA CP 10154, D. Des Marais Ed
1997
 93)   Planets Beyond the Solar System and the Next Generation of Space Missions.
D. Soderblom Ed.
ASP Conf. series no. 119 1997
 94)   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
 95)   Planet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems
Croswell Ken
Free Press, 1997

Review
 96)   The Quest for Alien Planets: Exploring Worlds outside the Solar System.
Halpern Paul
Plenum Press, 1997
 97)   After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life
Harrison Albert
Plenum Press, 1997
 98)   La Bioastronomie
Raulin François, Raulin-Cerceau Florence & Schneider Jean
PUF Que-Sais-Je? no. 3316
Abstract
 99)   Tweelingaarde
Schilling Govert
De speurtocht naar leven in andere planetenstelsels
Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam 1997
 100)   Planetenjäger
Schneider Reto
(German)
Forword by Michel Mayor
Birkhauser 1997
review
 101)   Circumstellar Habitable Zones
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Habitable Zones, San Fransisco, 1994
Doyle L. (ed.)
Travis House Publications, 1996
Review
 102)   From Stardust to Planetesimals
108th Annual Meeting of the Astron. Soc. of Pacific
ASP Series no. 122. Y. Pendelton Ed., 1996
 103)   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
 104)   Progress in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
IAU Commission 51
ed. G. Seth Shostak
ASP Conference Series no. 74, 1996
 105)   Circumstellar Dust Disks and Planet Formation
R. Ferlet & A. Vidal-Madjar (Ed.)
Editions Frontières
 106)   The bottom of the main sequence--and beyond
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 10-12 August 1994
 107)   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
 108)   Protostars and planets III
Levy E. & Lunine J. (Eds.)
University of Arizona Press, 1993
abstract
 109)   Qualitative and quantitative behaviour of planetary systems
Dvorak R. & Henrard J. Eds.
Kluwer, 1993
abstract
 110)   Frontiers of Life
Tran Thanh Van J. & K., Mounoulou J.C., Schneider J. & McKay C. (Eds.)
Editions Frontières, 1992
ISNB 2-86332-125-0
 111)   The search for life in the universe
Goldsmith Donald & Owen Tobias
Addison-Wesley, 1992
 112)   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
 113)   The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Ashpole E.
Blandford Press, London, 1990
 114)   The SETI Factor
White F.
Walker and Company, 1990
 115)   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
 116)   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
 117)   The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750-1900: The Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell
Crowe Michael
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
 118)   Protostars and planets II
D. Black & M. Matthews(Eds.)
University of Arizona Press, 1985
abstract
 119)   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
 120)   Strategies for the search for life in the universe
M. Papagiannis (ed.)
D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1980
abstract
 121)   Habitable planets for man
Dole Stephen H.
American Elsevier Pub. Co., 1970
 122)   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.
 123)   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
 124)   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
 125)   LINCOS. Design of a language for cosmic intercourse.
Freudenthal Hans
in Studies in Logic and Foundations of Mathematics Series. Noth Holland Publishing Company. 1960.
Review
 126)   Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life.
Grinspoon David
 127)   Rare Earths - Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe.
Ward Peter & Brownlee Donald
Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. 361 pp. ISBN 0-387-98701-0.
Rare Earth homepage
Review by C. McKay

2. Theses and dissertations :

 1)   FORTIER A.
Giant planet formation in the framework of the core instability model
Full text Universidad Nacional d La Plata
 2)   Fogg Martyn
Terrestrial planet formation in exoplanetary systems
27 megabyes
Full Text
 3)   PAL A.
Tools for discovering and characterizing extrasolar planets
Eotvos Lorand University (June 18, 2009)
full text
 4)   CAMPANELLA G.
The search for exomoons and the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres
Roma, MSc Thesis, 4 September 2009
Full text
 5)   Arthur Vigan
Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets in Direct Imaging with IRDIS
PhD Thesis - Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I (08/12/2009)
Full text
 6)   RONDEAU X.
Imaging through the turbulence: phase retrieval and optimal centering
Full Text
 7)   Sylvestre Lacour
Imaging evolved stars by interferometry; Pupil remapping
22 January
Full text
 8)   Bartlett Jennifer
Knowing Our Neighbors: Fundamental Properties of Nearby Stars
Full Text
 9)   Fergal Mullally
Stellar Companions to white dwarves
Austin, August 2007
 10)   Ehrenreich David
Caractères de planètes extrasolaires : des observations de planètes géantes en transit aux modèles de planètes de taille terrestre
Paris, July 2007
Full Text
 11)   MARTINEZ FIORENZANO A.
The search for extrasolar planets: Study of line bisectors and its relation with precise radial velocity measurements
Padova, Italia
Full text
 12)   STEFFEN J.
Detecting New Planets in Transiting Systems
University of Washington
Full text
 13)   Matthew Muterspaugh
Binary Star Systems and Extrasolar Planets
MIT, July 6 2005
full text
 14)   Suzanne Aigrain
Planetary transits and stellar variability.
IoA, University of Cambridge. January 25, 2005
Full text
 15)   Heather Hauser
Three Dimensional Orbits Determined Using Astrometric and Doppler Data. (Master Thesis)
 16)   Lisa Kaltenegger
Search for Extra-Terrestrial planets: The DARWIN mission - Target Stars and Array Architectures.
abstract and full text
 17)   Sozzetti Alessandro
Observational Tests of the Formation, Migration, and Evolution Processes of Gas Giant Planets
Pittsburgh, May 2005
Full text
 18)   Rudolfo Cionco
Sobre la formacion de sistemas de planetas gigantes en une ambiante nebular estandar.
La Plata, Argentina, Marzo 2004
Full text
 19)   Jonathan Fortney
The Evolution of Giant Planets.
Tucson, AZ, USA, 2004
Full text
 20)   Christian Marois
La recherche de naines brunes et d'exoplanetes: developpement d'une technique d'imagerie multibande.
Montreal, 8 October 2004
Summary
 21)   Pascal Bordé
Detection and characterization of extrasolar planets using very high precision photometry and infrared interferometry
Paris, 27 October 2003
Full text (in French)
 22)   Ben Lane
High precision infra-red stellar interferometry.
February 20, 2003
full text
 23)   Jeremy Richardson
Infrared Spectroscopy of the Transiting Extrasolar Planet HD 204958 b During Secondary Eclipse.
University of Colorado, 2003
full text
 24)   Mark Snellgrove
Migration, Resonance and Turbulence in Protoplanet-Disk Interactions
Queen Mary, University of London, 2003
Full text
 25)   Nuno Cardoso-Santos
New Studies on Stars with Giant Planets
Geneva, June 2002
Full text
 26)   TINETTI Giovanna
Energy and Entropy for Extraterrestrial Life
Full text
 27)   David Charbonneau
Shadows and Reflections of Extrasolar Planets"
Harvard University, 2001
full text
 28)   Carlos de la Fuente Marcos
Dynamics and growth of dust grains in the protoplanetary nebula.
Madrid, 2001
 29)   Cédric Goukenleuque
Atmosphère des planètes extrasolaires géantes : un modèle d'équilibre radiatif
Université Paris VI
full text
 30)   Daren Williams
The stability of habitable planetary environments.
Pennsylvania State University, 1998
Full text
 31)   T. Joseph Lazio
Genetic Algorithms, Pulsar Planets, and Ionized Interstellar Microturbulence
Cornell, May 1997
abstract in PASP (sept. 1997)
 32)   Keiko Yoshinaga
Stability of Protoplanet Systems. (Master Thesis)
Full text