Astrophysics

This book provides an up-to-date, self-contained account of deep inelastic scattering in high-energy physics, intended for graduate students and physicists new to the subject.

In the early part of the eighteenth century, Francesco Bianchini of Verona turned his primitive telescope - a refractor of only a few centimetres aperture but with an enormous focal length of around 20 metres - on the planet Venus.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Photographische Messungen von Doppelsternen von 1953.

This book introduces readers to scattering from a practical/numerical point of view.

In this "e;SpringerBrief"e; the author considers the underlying problems and questions that are common to numerical models of turbulence in different astrophysical systems.

This book describes numerical simulations of collisions between asteroids, based on a unique numerical code developed by the author.

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This interesting book reviews WMAP's main results (2003) and discusses in detail how the accurate qualitative results for the "e;age"e; of the universe and the Hubble constant were anticipated in an article published five years before in Acta Cosmologica, Krakow.

Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use.

The enlarged new edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic processes in plasmas and demonstrates that the same fundamental concepts describe cold gas-discharge plasmas, space plasmas, and hot fusion plasmas.

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

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - known simply as Chandra throughout the scientific world - has become a legendary figure for his prolific contributions to physics, astrophysics, and applied mathematics.

The Astrophotography Manual, Second Edition is for photographers ready to move beyond standard SLR cameras and editing software to create beautiful images of nebulas, galaxies, clusters, and the stars.

Aimed at graduate students and young researchers, this volume presents observational techniques, tools, and models for studying Local Group galaxies.

This book describes numerical simulations of collisions between asteroids, based on a unique numerical code developed by the author.

Physics and Astrophysics-Glimpses of the Progress provides a comprehensive account of physics and astrophysics from the time of Aristotle to the modern era of Stephen Hawking and beyond.

The SOHO-7 Workshop was held from 28 September through 1 October 1998 at the Asticou Inn in Northeast Harbor, Maine.

For Deborah, Mark and Sarah 'Not another book on cosmology!

In the late 20th and beginning 21st century high-precision astronomy, positioning and metrology strongly rely on general relativity.

This volume, together with its two companion volumes, originated in a study commis- sioned by the United States National Academy of Sciences on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

In the year 2015, 100 years after Fred Hoyle was born, the ideas relating to the cosmic origins of life are slowly gaining credence in scientific circles.

No part of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram shows a more pronounced diversity of stellar types than the upper part, which contains the most luminous stars.

This volume addresses the important questions at the interface of particle physics, cosmology and nuclear astrophysics.

The hydrogen Lyman-alpha line is of utmost importance to many fields of astrophysics.

Have you ever wondered what happened before the Big Bang, or how we would colonize Mars, or what an alien invasion might really be like?

The essence of temporal universe creation is that any analytical solution has to comply with the boundary condition of our universe; dimensionality and causality constraints.

This book presents a string-theoretic approach to new ideas in particle physics, also known as Physics Beyond the Standard Model, and to cosmology.

This book is meant to be a reference source for the fundamental formulae of astrophysics.

Solar Physics publishes up to two Topical Issues per year that focus on areas of especially vigorous and active research.

These are the proceedings of an international meeting hosted by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the UKIRT, the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope.

The 2002 International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA2002) was held from May 31 to June 2, 2002, in Taipei, Taiwan.

A fundamental, profound review of the key issues relating to the early universe and the physical processes that occurred in it.

The idea for organizing an Advanced Study Institute devoted largely to neutron star timing arose independently in three places, at Istanbul, Garching and Amster- dam; when we became aware of each other's ideas we decided to join forces.

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference on laboratory astrophysics, which gathered a broad interdisciplinary community of astrophysicists, physicists, chemists, and geophysicists.

This thesis offers the first laboratory validation of microscopic simulations of radio emission from particle showers, including a detailed description of the simulation study.

In this book, a distinguished expert introduces plasma physics from the ground up, presenting it as a comprehensible field that can be grasped largely on the basis of physical intuition and qualitative reasoning, similar to other fields of physics.

The physics of neutrinos--uncharged elementary particles that are key to helping us better understand the nature of our universe--is one of the most exciting frontiers of modern science.

This book aims to assess, evaluate and critically analyze the methods that are currently available for a judicious pest management in durable food.

Written by experts in the field, many of whom took part in the Galileo mission, the book reviews the basics about Io and its unique space environment.

This book provides a pedagogical introduction to the likely sources of these neutrinos, their propagation and detection mechanisms.

In diesem Buch haben wir versucht, die vielfache Bedeutung aufzuzeigen, welche die Relativitätstheorie heute hat: Sie ist zunächst - zusammen mit der Quanten­ theorie - eine der wichtigsten Grundlagen der modernen Physik, die vor allem in den Laboratorien der Hochenergiephysik ständige Anwendung fmdet.

A short, graduate-level synthesis of recent developments in theoretical physics, from a pioneer in the fieldLectures on the Infrared Structure of Gravity and Gauge Theory presents an accessible, graduate-level synthesis of a frontier research area in theoretical physics.

If scientists can't touch the Sun, how do they know what it's made of?

This thesis presents valuable contributions to several aspects of the rapidly growing field of gravitational wave astrophysics.

In the year 2015, 100 years after Fred Hoyle was born, the ideas relating to the cosmic origins of life are slowly gaining credence in scientific circles.