Table of Contents

Preface.- Planetary Atmosphere Evolution: Do Other Habitable Planets Exist and Can we Detect Them?.- Ways that Our Solar System Helps Us Understand the Formation of Other Planetary Systems and Ways that it Doesn’t.- Photometric Search for Extrasolar Planets.- Radial Velocity Searches for Other Planetary Systems: Current Status and Future Prospects.- Demonstration of Photon-Noise Limit in Stellar Radial Velocities.- Aspects of Astrometric Searches for Other Planetary Systems.- Astrometric Detection of Earth-Like Planets with OSI.- Astrometry from Space: GAIA and Planet Detection.- Ground-Based Interferometry.- FRESIP: A Mission to Determine the Character and Frequency of Extra-Solar Planets Around Solar-Like Stars.- The Darwin Project.- Public Involvement in Extra-Solar Planet Detection.

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