Index
ABCD detection, 148
abundance proles, 336
achromatic null, 181
achromatic phase shifts, 189
adiabats, 249
Alfven velocity, 393
ammonia, 250, 251
Angels Cross, 206
anisoplanatism, 156
azimuthal drag, 405
Babinets Principle, 15
bandwidth smearing, 148
baroclinic instabilities, 392
barotropic equilibrium, 262
baseline vector, 144
Bond albedo, 345
Brunt-Vaisala frequency, 395
Bracewell, 206
CaTiO3 , 337
caustic, 82
centrifugal force, 260
chondritic meteorites, 442
chondrules, 413
ClausiusClapeyron, 334
close-in planets, 43
conductive opacity, 289
corotation radius, 398
Coulomb potential, 269
coupling parameter, 269
DARWIN, 181, 207
degenerate gaz, 268
deuterium, 253, 273
diusion approximation, 280
disk
accretion luminosity, 380
angular momentum, 386
mass conservation, 384
mass ux, 388
Rayleighs criterion, 390
temperature-weighted mass, 377
two-layer model, 376
dual-star system, 168
dusty brown dwarfs, 342
eccentricity decay, 46
Eddington approximation, 254
Einstein radius, 78, 83
Einstein ring, 78
energy conservation, 253
EOS
models, 275
polarization, 275
hydrogen, 275
epicyclic frequency, 395
Fraunhofer diraction, 135
Fresnel scale, 141
Fried parameter, 135
frozen turbulence hypothesis, 139
GAIA, 171
GEST, 93
giant planets
mass, 244
Gruneisen parameter, 278
450 Index

grain growth, 340 migration

gravitational moments, 245, 263 type I, 438
gravity eld, 244 type II, 438
millisecond pulsars, 6
Hayashi MkIII Interferometer, 153
evolution track, 347 modal lter, 186
forbidden region, 347 moist convection, 338
helium, 246 monoatomic gas, 259
ionization, 271 monochromatic opacity, 280
sedimentation, 317
Helmoltz free energy, 267 narrow-angle astrometry, 168
Hill sphere, 60, 417 Neptune
Hot Jupiters, 42 formation, 425
hot spot, 250 Neutron star disks, 8
Hufnagel turbulence prole, 157 null depth, 182, 188
hydrogen, 246 nulling array, 201
metallic, 269
PPT, 276 OASES, 206
Hydrostatic equilibrium, 425 object
hydrostatic equilibrium, 253, 262 Pic, 31
Dra, 44
Iodine Absorption cell, 73 Eri, 30
irradiated planets, 259 16 Cyg B, 50
isoplanatic angle, 140 47 UMa, 55
51 Oph, 33
Jeans criterion, 23
51 Peg, 75
Jupiter
55 Cancri, 38
age, 316
55 Cancri, 54
core, 301, 427
70 Vir b, 44
formation, 425
B162026, 8
growth, 428
BP Tau, 379
red spot, 251
CM Dra, 121
tropopause, 254
Gliese 876, 55, 161
KelvinHelmoltz instability, 356 GM Aur, 26
kinematic viscosity, 387 HD209458, 112, 344
Kolmogorov model, 130 HD 141569 A, 30
HD 166435, 68
Lane-Emden equation, 256 HD 192263, 68
Legendre polynomials, 261 HD 4796 A, 30
LiH, 325 HD 80606, 44
Lindblad resonances, 398, 435 HD 82943, 49
local thermodynamic equilibrium, 373 HD 83443, 51
Lorentzian line prole, 284 HD 89744 b, 44
luminosity, 253 HD 12661, 57
HD 168443, 57
magnetic elds, 246 HD 37124, 57
Marechal approximation, 138 HD 38529, 58
metallicity excess, 49 HD 74156, 58
methane, 250, 251 HD 82943, 58
 Index 451

HH-30, 26 saturation pressure, 335

HL Tau, 26 Saturn
KH 15D, 31 formation, 425
LkCa7, 379 scintillation, 142
MACHO 97-BLG-41, 94 secular resonance, 59
MACHO 98-BLG-35, 94 SED, 371
OGLE-TR-3, 118 SIM, 163, 173, 177
OGLE-TR-56, 118 Simultaneous Thorium Technique, 72
OGLE #7, 82 solid body rotation, 264
Orion Trapezium, 26 strehl ratio, 137, 138, 195
PSR B1257+12, 6 Stroke mismatch, 155
UX Orionis, 33 structure function, 131
WW Vul, 33 superadiabatic temperature gradient,
Oort Cloud, 31 390

particule growth, 407 Taylor columns, 294

Pauli principle, 271 TaylorProudman, 251
perfect gaz, 269 temperature gradient, 337
phase diagram, 271 temperature prole, 249
planet Thermal escape, 351
albedo, 123 thermometric conductivity, 289
gure, 260 tidal circularization, 45
PLANET collaboration, 94 tidal dissipation, 46
planetary tidal torque, 432
rings, 252 TiO, 337
systems, 51 tip-tilt, 195
polytropic index, 256 Toomres criterion, 398
Poynting-Robertson drag, 28 torque density, 436
PPI cycle, 320 transit
Prandtl number, 294 depth, 103
duration, 102
Q dissipation factor, 352
egress, 103
RankineHugoniot relations, 272 ingress, 103
Rayleigh criterion, 136 tropopause, 298
Rayleigh scattering, 287 turbulence height, 141
Reynolds number, 294, 412
Roche lobe overows, 351 Uranus
Rossby formation, 425
number, 294
waves, 403 visibility, 151
Rosseland opacity, 285 VLBI, 164
runaway growth, 307
Wiener-Khinchin Theorem, 132
satellites, 252 winds
irregular, 252 zonal, 358
saturated atmosphere, 338 WKB approximation, 395