Planetary systems : formation, evolution, and detection : proceedings of the first international conference, held in Pasadena, California on December 8-10, 1992

`Are there other planetary systems like ours? Other planets like ours? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe?' So asks Dr. Lew Allen Jr. in the Foreword. In December of 1992, theorists, observers, and instrument builders gathered at the California Institute of Technology to discuss the search for answers to these questions. The International Conference, entitled `Planetary Systems: Formation, Evolution, and Detection' and supported through NASA's newly formed TOPS (Toward Other Planetary Systems) program, was the first of a series of conferences uniting researchers across disciplines and political boundaries to share thoughts and information on planetary systems. The conference was sponsored by NASA, hosted by JPL at Caltech, and endorsed by the 1992 International Space Year Association. These proceedings include discussions of topics ranging from stellar, disk, and planetary formation to new ways of searching for other stellar systems containing planets. The authors represent a wide range of nationalities, disciplines, and points of view. The second international conference took place in December of 1993. Front Matter....Pages i-xii The Search for Other Planets: Clues from the Solar System....Pages 1-11 Formation and Evolution of Planets....Pages 13-22 Possible Consequences of Absence of “Jupiters“ in Planetary Systems....Pages 23-32 Dust Blobs in the Solar Nebula — Primary Distended Atmosphere....Pages 33-41 Formation and Properties of Fluffy Planetesimals....Pages 43-47 Radial Migration of Planetesimals....Pages 49-56 Very Low Mass Stars, Black Dwarfs and Planets....Pages 57-60 Interaction of Planetary Nebulae with Prenebulae Debris....Pages 61-65 Toward Planets Around Neutron Stars....Pages 67-75 On the Detection of Mutual Perturbations as Proof of Planets Around PSR1257+12....Pages 77-89 Planets Around Pulsars: A Review....Pages 91-106 Detection of Accreting Circumstellar Gas Around Weak Emission-Line Herbig Ae/Be Stars....Pages 107-114 The Evidence for Clumpy Accretion in the Herbig Ae Star HR 5999....Pages 115-124 Protoplanetary Dust Clouds in Disks of Herbig Ae/Be Stars....Pages 125-137 Identification of A Collapsing Protostar....Pages 139-145 Cometary-Like Bodies in the Protoplanetary Disk Around β Pictoris....Pages 147-157 Synthetic Images of Proto-Planetary Disks Around Young Stars....Pages 159-165 New Observations of the β Pictoris Circumstellar Disk with the JHU Adaptive Optics Coronagraph....Pages 167-172 Inner Part Observation of the β Pictoris Disk....Pages 173-180 The Detection and Study of Pre-Planetary Disks....Pages 181-189 Millimeter Continuum Measurements of Circumstellar Dust Around Very Young Low-Mass Stars....Pages 191-195 The Search for Protostars Using Millimeter/Submillimeter Dust Emission as a Tracer....Pages 197-214 Cold Dust Around Chamaeleon Stars....Pages 215-220 Cloudy Circumstellar Dust Shells Around Young Variable Stars....Pages 221-229 10-μM Images and Spectra of T Tauri Stars....Pages 231-238 The Nobeyama Millimeter Array Survey for Protoplanetary Disks Around Protostar Candidates and T Tauri Stars in Taurus....Pages 239-250 High-Precision VLBI Astrometric Observations of Radio-Emitting Stars for Detection of Extra-Solar Planets....Pages 251-260 Millimetre Photometry and Infrared Spectroscopy of Vega-Excess Stars....Pages 261-270 Long, Accurate Time Series Measurements of Radial Velocities of Solar-Type Stars....Pages 271-280 A High-Precision Radial-Velocity Survey for Other Planetary Systems....Pages 281-291 Multiplex Approach to the Photometric Detection of Planets....Pages 293-298 Searching for Planets by Differential Astrometry with Large Telescopes....Pages 299-319 On the Search for O 2 in Extrasolar Planets....Pages 321-325 How to Evidence Life on a Distant Planet....Pages 327-333 The Photometric Method of Extrasolar Planet Detection Revisited....Pages 335-348 TODCOR: A Two-Dimensional Correlation Technique to Analyze Stellar Spectra in Search of Faint Companions....Pages 349-356 Development of Absolute Accelerometry....Pages 357-367 Extrasolar Planet Detection....Pages 369-383 Indirect Planet Detection with Ground-Based Long-Baseline Interferometry....Pages 385-390 Direct Imaging of Planetary Systems with a Ground-Based Radio Telescope Array....Pages 391-394 Infrared and Sub-Millimeter Searches for Extra-Solar Planetary Systems from Antarctica....Pages 395-406 SIRTF: Capabilities for the Study of Planetary Systems....Pages 407-415 Planetary System Evolution and the Vega Stars: The Potential for Esa’s Infrared Space Observatory....Pages 417-422 The Edison Infrared Space Observatory and the Study of Extra-Solar Planetary Material....Pages 423-431 The Astrometric Imaging Telescope: Detection of Planetary Systems with Imaging and Astrometry....Pages 433-440 The Circumstellar Imager: Direct Detection of Extra-Solar Planetary Systems....Pages 441-452 Modelling of a Space-Based Ronchi Ruling Experiment for High-Precision Astrometry....Pages 453-463 Back Matter....Pages 465-487