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xi Contents List of Contributing Authors and Scientific Organizing Committee.......................................................................... xiii Foreword ......................................................................................................................................................................xv Preface .......................................................................................................................................................................xvii PART I: INTRODUCTION Introduction to Exoplanets S. Seager and J. J. Lissauer ..........................................................................................................................................3 Keplerian Orbits and Dynamics of Exoplanets C. D. Murray and A. C. M. Correia ...........................................................................................................................15 PART II: EXOPLANET OBSERVING TECHNIQUES Radial Velocity Techniques for Exoplanets C. Lovis and D. Fischer ..............................................................................................................................................27 Exoplanet Transits and Occultations J. N. Winn ....................................................................................................................................................................55 Microlensing by Exoplanets B. S. Gaudi ..................................................................................................................................................................79 Direct Imaging of Exoplanets W. A. Traub and B. R. Oppenheimer ........................................................................................................................111 Astrometric Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets A. Quirrenbach ..........................................................................................................................................................157 Planets Around Pulsars and Other Evolved Stars: The Fates of Planetary Systems A. Wolszczan and M. Kuchner....................................................................................................................................175 Statistical Distribution of Exoplanets A. Cumming ...............................................................................................................................................................191 PART III: EXOPLANET DYNAMICS Non-Keplerian Dynamics of Exoplanets D. Fabrycky ...............................................................................................................................................................217 Tidal Evolution of Exoplanets A. C. M. Correia and J. Laskar ................................................................................................................................239 xii PART IV: EXOPLANET FORMATION AND PROTOPLANETARY DISK EVOLUTION Protoplanetary and Debris Disks A. Roberge and I. Kamp ............................................................................................................................................269 Terrestrial Planet Formation J. Chambers ...............................................................................................................................................................297 Giant Planet Formation G. D’Angelo, R. H. Durisen, and J. J. Lissauer .......................................................................................................319 Planet Migration S. H. Lubow and S. Ida .............................................................................................................................................347 PART V: EXOPLANET INTERIORS AND ATMOSPHERES Terrestrial Planet Interiors C. Sotin, J. M. Jackson, and S. Seager .....................................................................................................................375 Giant Planet Interior Structure and Thermal Evolution J. J. Fortney, I. Baraffe, and B. Militzer ...................................................................................................................397 Giant Planet Atmospheres A. Burrows and G. Orton ..........................................................................................................................................419 Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres and Biosignatures V. Meadows and S. Seager ........................................................................................................................................441 Atmospheric Circulation of Exoplanets A. P. Showman, J. Y-K. Cho, and K. Menou .............................................................................................................471 Index .....................................................................................................................................................................517 ...

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