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Exoplanets: nature and models

 a,  b, c
a V.I. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygina str. 19, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
b The Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo, Pulkovskoe shosse 65/1, St. Petersburg, 196140, Russian Federation
c St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya naberezhnaya, 7 - 9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation

Exoplanets represent a broad new class of astronomical objects, which became accessible for observations and studies only just before the end of the last century. Owing to continually improving techniques of ground-based observations, and especially observations from space, for a little bit more than two decades thousands of planetary systems of other stars have been discovered, and this process is escalating. Exoplanets are of paramount interest for astrophysical, astrochemical, and dynamical studies. Exoplanetary studies have opened up new horizons to gain insights into fundamental problems of stellar-planetary cosmogony and, in particular, into the question of the origin and evolution of the Solar System. Discoveries of Earth-like planets, especially those orbiting in stellar habitable zones favorable to giving rise to and sustaining life, open new prospects for progress in astrobiology.

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Keywords: exoplanets, cosmogony, planetary systems, Solar System
PACS: 05.45.Ac, 45.50.Pk, 95.10.Ce, 96.15.De, 97.82.−j (all)
DOI: 10.3367/UFNe.2019.10.038673
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2020/9/a/
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Citation: Marov M Ya, Shevchenko I I "Exoplanets: nature and models" Phys. Usp. 63 837–871 (2020)
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Received: 21st, May 2019, revised: 22nd, September 2019, 9th, October 2019

Оригинал: Маров М Я, Шевченко И И «Экзопланеты: природа и модели» УФН 190 897–932 (2020); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2019.10.038673

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