Astrophysics

Astronomers do not do experiments.

Interstellar dust grains catalyse chemical reactions, absorb, scatter, polarise and re-radiate starlight and constitute the building blocks for the formation of planets.

The second workshop on High Energy Astrophysics of the Ma.

Neutrinos play an intriguing role in modern physics linking central questions of particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics.

Ongoing studies in mathematical depth, and inferences from `helioseismological' observations of the internal solar rotation have shown up the limitations in our knowledge of the solar interior and of our understanding of the solar dynamo, manifested in particular by the sunspot cycle, the Maunder minimum, and solar flares.

This textbook gives a lively introduction to the search for extraterrestrial life.

Provides an up-to-date overview of the theoretical, experimental and analytical tools for carrying out asteroseismological observations and inferences.

This book provides a comprehensive description of advances in the study of general relativistic instability supernovae.

This book summarizes the recent progress in the physics and astrophysics of neutron stars and, most importantly, it identifies and develops effective strategies to explore, both theoretically and observationally, the many remaining open questions in the field.

The growth of cosmology into a precision science represents one of the most remarkable stories of the past century.

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

Helping readers understand the complicated laws of nature, Advanced Particle Physics Volume I: Particles, Fields, and Quantum Electrodynamics explains the calculations, experimental procedures, and measuring methods of particle physics.

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In this volume recent developments in the nonperturbative aspects of string theory, duality in N = 1 string compactifications, orientifolds and F-theory as well as the matrix model description of M-theory are reported.

A Practical Guide to Observational Astronomy provides a practical and accessible introduction to the ideas and concepts that are essential to making and analyzing astronomical observations.

Covering topics of radio astronomy, this book contains graduate-level problems with carefully presented solutions.

This advanced textbook reviews the complex interaction between the Sun''s plasma atmosphere and its magnetic field.

Galaxies have a history.

These proceedings gather invited and contributed talks presented at the XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in December 2014.

The strongest part of this volume is the treatment of nonperturbative field theory with implications for baryon number violation at high energies and cosmology.

ALLes in ALLem …Dass sich das Universum ausdehnt, ist eine der ganz großen Entdeckungen der Menschheit.

Space weather is one of the most significant natural hazards to human life and health.

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.

In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics.

This 2001 book presents the methodologies used by astrophysicists for solving the radiative transfer equation.

Tom Kibble is an inspirational theoretical physicist who has made profound contributions to our understanding of the physical world.

Providing a broad overview of foundational concepts, this second edition of Fundamentals of Astronomy covers topics ranging from spherical astronomy to reference systems, and celestial mechanics to astronomical photometry and spectroscopy.

Gerard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs are among the most prominent and respected astronomers of this century.

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.

Predicted long ago to be present on the surface of planetary bodies by theoreticians and recently shown by interplanetary spacecraft and ground- based instruments to be ubiquitous in the Solar System, ices in a broad sense have become an extremely important subject in planetary research.

Ideal for students and researchers alike, this advanced textbook provides a complete overview of star formation.

This book contains the lecmres presented at the Summer Advanced Study Institute, 'Physics and Chemistry of Upper Atmospheres' which was held at the University of Orleans, Orleans, France, during the period July 31 through August 11,1972.

The nature of dark matter remains one of the preeminent mysteries in physics and cosmology.

Recent spacecraft and robotic probes to Mars have yielded data that are changing our understanding significantly about the possibility of existing or past life on that planet.

As investigations into our Universe become more complex, in-depth, and widespread, galaxy surveys are requiring state-of-the-art data scientific methods to analyze them.

A quantitative introduction to planetary science for advanced undergraduates, including planet formation, exoplanets and planetary habitability.

The original plans for a meeting to celebrate the second centenary of the As- tronomical Observatory of Palermo were for a celebration with a double character.

In a year that will probably be remembered almost as much for books about the millennium as for the turn of 2000 A.

The Workshop "e;Science with the VLT in the ELT Era"e; held in Garching from 8th to 12th October 2007 was organised by ESO, with support from its Scienti c and Technical Committee, to provide a forum for the astronomical community to debate the long term future of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and its interferometric mode (VLTI).

This essential book is the first comprehensive exposition in the area of optimal low-thrust orbit transfer using non-singular variables.

Quarks '90 covers various topics in the theory of elementary particles and quantum fields (including perturbative and non-perturbative QCD, sphalerons, topological field theory, strings and superstrings, physics in TeV region), astrophysics and cosmology as related to particle physics.

Up to date and comprehensive in its coverage, Neutrinos in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology reviews the whole landscape of neutrino physics, from state-of-the-art experiments to the latest phenomenological and theoretical developments to future advances.

Anyone observing the awe-inspiring sight of an eclipse will want to capture it on film for posterity.

This volume contains the proceedings of the meeting entitled, "e;The IGM/Galaxy Connection: The Distribution of Baryons at z = 0.

The goal of the project presented in this book is to detect neutrinos created by resonant interactions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays on the CMB photon field filling the Universe.

Starting at the level of graduate students, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field of turbulence.

This new book is a thorough but short review of the history and present status of ideas in cosmology.

This book provides an accessible, yet thorough, introduction to special and general relativity, crafted and class-tested over many years of teaching.