Astronomy, space and time

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

This book takes the reader on a journey through the history of extremely ambitious, large and complex space missions that never happened.

Absolute concepts of time and energy are integral to standard thermal physics, but background independent systems are devoid of them.

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper.

In recent decades, the number of satellites being built and launched into Earth's orbit has grown immensely, alongside the field of space engineering itself.

The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space.

This modern textbook guides the reader through the theory and practice of the motion and attitude control of space vehicles.

This book includes nine chapters written by internationally recognized experts, covering all aspects of millisecond pulsars in one concise and cohesive volume.

This thesis addresses the feasibility of the production of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays in starburst galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

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

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

This book presents novel observational evidence toward detecting and characterizing the products of massive, interacting binary stars.

This book provides a detailed, state-of-the-art overview of key observational and theoretical aspects of the rapidly developing and highly interdisciplinary field of exoplanet science, as viewed through the lenses of eight world-class experts.

This book provides a showcase for the incredibly well-preserved flight-textured tektites of southern Australia, which are the world's finest known examples.

This anthology contains fourteen intriguing stories by active research scientists and other writers trained in science.

This book deals with an effect in celestial mechanics that has become quite important in exoplanet research.

This book marks the centennial of Tebbutt's death with a major biographical account surveying his scientific contributions to astronomy, prefaced with a foreword by Sir Patrick Moore.

Our vast Universe is filled with an enormous amount of matter and energy, which are the source of large gravitational potentials affecting all physical phenomena.

This thesis reports on the search for dark matter in data taken with the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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.

Author Joseph Ashley explains video astronomy's many benefits in this comprehensive reference guide for amateurs.

At the intersection of astronautics, computer science, and social science, this book introduces the challenges and insights associated with computer simulation of human society in outer space, and of the dynamics of terrestrial enthusiasm for space exploration.

Scientists have been searching for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations since Frank Drake's first radio survey in 1960.

Tackling galactic evolution in a truly novel way, this outstanding thesis statistically explores the long-term evolution of galaxies, using recent theoretical breakthroughs that explicitly account for their self-gravity.

Based on the latest missions results and supported by commissioned artwork, this book explores the possible lessons we may learn from exoplanets.

This book summarizes recent developments in the research area of quantum gravity phenomenology.

This book presents more than 200 problems, with detailed guided solutions, spanning key areas of particle physics and astrophysics.

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

This book presents gravity aspects (gravity disturbance, Marussi tensor, two gravity invariants, their certain ratio, the strike angles, and the virtual deformations) which are computed and evaluated for the Moon, using the recent static global gravity field model (GRGM1200A) to degree and order of 600 in spherical harmonic expansion.

All stars are born in groups.

This book presents three major studies covering exomoon and exoplanet detection and characterisation.

This book presents recent results on the modelling of space plasmas with Kappa distributions and their interpretation.

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

This thesis provides a comprehensive view of the physics of charmed hadrons in high-energy proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions.

Space telescopes are among humankind's greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years.

This textbook presents the established sciences of optical, infrared, and radio astronomy as distinct research areas, focusing on the science targets and the constraints that they place on instrumentation in the different domains.

This thesis represents a unique mix of theoretical work discussing the Lorentz theory of gravity and experimental work searching for supersymmetry with the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

The book summarizes the knowledge and experiences concerning the role of halogens during various geochemical processes, such as diagenesis, ore-formation, magma evolution, metasomatism, mineralization, and metamorphism in the crust and mantle of the Earth.

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).

This book covers the possible manned mission to Mars first discussed in the 1950s and still a topic of much debate, addressing historic and future plans to visit the Red Planet.

The "e;Ashen Light"e; of Venus-a ghostly emission of light from the night side of our nearest planetary neighbor-is among the last unsolved mysteries of astronomical history.

Anyone interested in astronomy battles with the conveniences of modern living - street lights, advertising and security lighting, tall buildings, and even the occasional tree.

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.

From unicorns on the Moon to UFOs piloted by Martian bees, this book chronicles some of the strangest ideas that have been put forward - and have actually been believed in -- about our universe.

This book presents a modern scholarly analysis of issues associated with England's most famous astronomer, William Herschel.

This thesis reports the measurement of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance and electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance in a muon neutrino and antineutrino beam using the T2K experiment.

This is the first comprehensive book on the European Hermes program.

This book is devoted to the study of certain integral representations for Neumann, Kapteyn, Schlomilch, Dini and Fourier series of Bessel and other special functions, such as Struve and von Lommel functions.

This thesis covers several theoretical aspects of WIMP (weakly interacting massive particles) dark matter searches, with a particular emphasis on colliders.

This thesis describes the search for Dark Matter at the LHC in the mono-jet plus missing transverse momentum final state, using the full dataset recorded in 2012 by the ATLAS Experiment.