Astrophysics

This symposium was held at the College de France in Paris from August 31 to Sep- tember 4, 1970.

Reviews the historical development of all the key areas of modern astrophysics.

This volume contains up-to-date accounts of many of the latest developments in gravitation, cosmology and astrophysics, including papers on black hole radiation, empirical tests of gravitational theory, quantum gravity, classical and quantum cosmology, singularities, computational methods, and a number of other topics.

The ESO workshop "e;Multiple Stars across the H-R Diagram"e; was held in Garching on 12-15, July 2005.

This book presents lecture materials from the Third LOFAR Data School, transformed into a coherent and complete reference book describing the LOFAR design, along with descriptions of primary science cases, data processing techniques, and recipes for data handling.

This book is an attempt to demystify the activities of a celestial object such as the Sun appealing to basic physics already available to high school students.

Did an enormous collision in the Asteroid Belt, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, bombard Earth with meteorites 470 million years ago?

Uncover the Secrets of the Universe Hidden at Wavelengths beyond Our Optical GazeWilliam Herschel's discovery of infrared light in 1800 led to the development of astronomy at wavelengths other than the optical.

A paperback edition of a classic text for graduates and researchers in relativity, theoretical physics, astrophysics and mathematics.

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

These peer-reviewed NIC XV conference proceedings present the latest major advances in nuclear physics, astrophysics, astronomy, cosmochemistry and neutrino physics, which provide the necessary framework for a microscopic understanding of astrophysical processes.

This book attempts to explain the core of physics, the origin of everything and anything.

Since the first French edition of the book emphasized rather the solid facts of Cosmology than the detailed discussions of controversial results, relatively few revisions were necessary for the English edition.

Radiative Processes in Astrophysics: This clear, straightforward, and fundamental introduction is designed to present-from a physicist's point of view-radiation processes and their applications to astrophysical phenomena and space science.

This book employs computer simulations of 'artificial' Universes to investigate the properties of two popular alternatives to the standard candidates for dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE).

Targeting advanced students of astronomy and physics, as well as astronomers and physicists contemplating research on supernovae or related fields, David Branch and J.

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

Auf der Basis der physikalischen Grundlagen (Strahlung, Luftbewegung, Wolken- und Niederschlagsbildung) sowie der verschiedenen Methoden der Wetterbeobachtung (Boden, Radiosonde, Satelliten, Radar) werden Wettersysteme und Wettervorhersage verständlich erläutert.

This book offers new findings on the impact of galaxy mergers on galaxy evolution and related processes.

This monograph explains and analyzes the principles of a quantum-geometric framework for the unification of general relativity and quantum theory.

The book presents the most recent developments of laboratory studies in astrophysics and space research.

Astronomie, Astrophysik und Weltraumforschung haben innerhalb weniger Jahrzehnte eine geradezu explosive Entwicklung genommen.

This book introduces the current state of research on dark energy.

This book highlights fundamentals and advances in the theories and observations of solar magnetic fields.

This volume focuses on the recent developments of general relativity.

This book treats the subject of gravitational waves (GWs) production in binary stars or black-holes and in the early universe, using tools of quantum field theory which are familiar to graduate students and researchers in particle physics.

Novel instruments for high-precision imaging polarimetry have opened new possibilities, not only for diagnostics of magnetic fields, but also for exploring effects in radiative scattering, atomic physics, spectral line formation and radiative transfer.

It is clear that the discovery of solar eigenmodes and the resulting possibility of probing the solar interior is an event of primary importance for solar physics in general and for theories of the inner solar angular velocity in particular.

This textbook provides advanced undergraduates and graduates with up-to-date coverage of space physics from the Sun to the interstellar medium.

This textbook is intended to be used in a lecture course for college students majoring in Earth Sciences.

Questo volume raccoglie le lezioni del Corso di Radioattività impartite, inizialmente dall’autore e successivamente da suoi collaboratori, agli studenti di Fisica presso l’Università di Pavia.

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

After decades of painstaking planning, NASA's first dedicated exoplanet detection mission, the Kepler space telescope, was launched in 2009 from Cape Canaveral.

This monograph is based upon the proceedings of the Summer Institute, Physics of the Magnetosphere, held on the Boston College campus, lune 19-28, 1967.

This volume contains detailed articles by theorists and experimentalists in the newly developing field of astroparticle physics.

Praise for the first edition:"e;A terrific blend of the science and the history.

A self-contained graduate-level introduction to the physical processes that shape planetary systems, covering all stages of planet formation.

This book presents timely work on the nature of the physical processes underpinning two of the basic characteristics of the gas structure in the innermost region of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN): ionized outflows and emission line regions.

This thesis focuses on the very high Mach number shock wave that is located sunward of Saturn's strong magnetic field in the continuous high-speed flow of charged particles from the Sun (the solar wind).

On August 2000 in the Lomonosov Moscow State University the first scientific conference dedicated to chaos in the real astronomical systems was held.

This is the first volume of a series on a regular up-to-date coverage of important developments in astronomy and astrophysics jointly published by ESO and Springer-Verlag.

This book is the first part of the originally planned publication by Z.

to the Second Edition The development of astronomy in the last ten years has been nothing short of explosive.

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