Astronomy, space and time

This edited volume contains 24 different research papers by members of the History and Heritage Working Group of the Southeast Asian Astronomy Network.

If man's next big step is to live and work in space, then what will everyone do out there that is so different from what we are now doing here on Earth?

This book is about the dark photon which is a new gauge boson whose existence has been conjectured.

Orreries-mechanical models of the Solar System and its motions-are found everywhere.

This volume on astrobiology of the Springer Briefs in Life Sciences book series addresses the three fundamental questions on origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe: how does life begin and evolve?

Gravitational physics has now become a mainstream topic in physics and physics teaching.

In 2014, Rosetta became the first mission to orbit a comet and to deploy a lander onto its surface.

This thesis describes the application of state-of-the-art high-energy X-ray studies to the astronomical quest for understanding obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN).

In an expanding world with limited resources, optimization and uncertainty quantification have become a necessity when handling complex systems and processes.

This book is a rich source of information on design research and solutions for the support and development of space missions.

Angelo Secchi was a key figure in 19th century science.

This book is aimed at those who wish to understand more about the molecular basis of life and how life on earth may change in coming centuries.

This book offers an exercise in theoretical planetology, presenting five different scenarios to assess the evolution of habitable conditions on Mars to assess planetary terraforming potential and to give insight into the ongoing search for habitable exoplanets.

This book, the first of a two-volume set, focuses on the basic physical principles of blackbody radiometry and describes artificial sources of blackbody radiation, widely used as sources of optical radiation, whose energy characteristics can be calculated on the base of fundamental physical laws.

This proceedings volume contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 6th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, held in Delft, the Netherlands on Sep 24th-25th, 2019.

This book considers the history of modern astronomy and astrophysics in Japan by comparing with the development of astrophysics in western countries.

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This book provides a pedagogical introduction to the rapidly growing field of reheating after inflation.

Cosmology and astroparticle physics have seen an avalanche of discoveries in the past decade (IceCube - high energy neutrinos, LIGO - gravitational waves, Fermi- gamma-ray telescope, Xenon-1T - dark matter detection, PLANCK- cosmic microwave radiation, EHT picture of black hole, SDSS -galaxy surveys), all of which require a multidisciplinary background for analyzing the phenomena.

This book presents recent advances in the physics of magnetic reconnection, investigated via both in situ spacecraft observations and fully kinetic numerical simulations.

Radio and radar astronomy are powerful tools when studying the wonders of the universe, yet they tend to mystify amateur astronomers.

This accessible and entertaining biography chronicles the life and triumphs of astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who helped lay the foundations of modern astronomy in the 20th century.

This non-technical biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) presents to the general reader the scientific life of the astronomer who pioneered the studies of the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy.

These are the proceedings of a meeting celebrating Michael Thompson's seminal work on solar and stellar physics, as well as his major contributions to the development of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Since the 1960s, astrophysical discoveries have blossomed, due to the emergence of powerful and new observational tools.

This book presents Special Relativity in a language accessible to students while avoiding the burdens of geometry, tensor calculus, space-time symmetries, and the introduction of four vectors.

This book explores the once popular idea of 'Flexible Path' in terms of Mars, a strategy that would focus on a manned orbital mission to Mars's moons rather than the more risky, expensive and time-consuming trip to land humans on the Martian surface.

This thesis describes advances in the understanding of HgCdTe detectors.

This SpringerBrief explores the technological, economic, physiological, and psychological comparisons between a journey to the Moon versus a journey to Mars, taking into consideration the national and international perspectives at play.

The 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy.

The Mars Curiosity Rover is the most sophisticated mobile laboratory ever deployed on a planet.

This book, now in its third edition, offers a practical guide to the use of probability and statistics in experimental physics that is of value for both advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

This book highlights selected contributions presented at the 15th annual international symposium Frontiers of Fundamental Physics (FFP15), with the aim of informing readers about the most important recent advances in fundamental physics and physics education research.

Life support systems are an integral part of crewed spacecraft designs and habitation systems.

The three neutrinos are ghostly elementary particles that exist all across the Universe.

Africa faces numerous challenges relating to good governance due to its vast and diverse landscape, as well as its history.

Every second of every day, we are exposed to billions of neutrinos emitted by the Sun, and yet they seem to pass straight through us with no apparent effect at all.

This book aims to integrate, in a pedagogical and technical manner, with detailed derivations, all essential principles of fundamental theoretical physics as developed over the past 100 years.

This book offers a vision of how evolutionary life processes can be modelled.

I first had a quick look, then I started reading it.

Written by a leading expert on comets, this textbook is divided into seven main elements with a view to allowing advanced students to appreciate the interconnections between the different elements.

Like planets in our solar system, exoplanets form, evolve, and interact with their host stars in many ways.

This book presents a novel mathematical formalism, based on the tetrad formulation of differential geometry, for describing cosmological observables exactly and conveniently.

Based on 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations performed with unprecedented high resolution, this book examines the giant impacts that dominate many planets' late accretion and evolution.

Starting out from humankind's earliest ideas about the cosmos, this book gives the reader a clear overview of our current understanding of the universe, including big bang theories and the formation of stars and galaxies, as well as addressing open questions.

Long before humans wrote, we painted.

This book analyses the magnificent imperial necropolises of ancient China from the perspective of Archaeoastronomy, a science which takes into account the landscape in which ancient monuments are placed, focusing especially but not exclusively on the celestial aspects.

This book is devoted to the most relevant issues in crystal chemistry and mineral typomorphism; the structure, physico-chemical and technological properties of minerals; and the computational modeling of mineral structure and properties.

Astronomy in the Inca Empire was a robust and fundamental practice.

This book is an invaluable guide to calibrating any infrared spectrum using noble gases as a reference.