Astrophysics

This book deals with neutrino physics and astrophysics - a field in which some of the most exciting recent developments in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology took place.

The traditional purpose of the Adriatic Meeting is to present most advanced scienti?

This book highlights a comprehensive coverage of X--ray and Gamma-ray astrophysics.

The workshop on "e;Frontiers of Astronomy in 1990s"e; was held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Astronomical Society.

The theory of stellar atmospheres is one of the most important branches of modern astrophysics.

This book presents a comprehensive and self-contained exposition of the mathematical theory of impulsive light-like signals in general relativity.

A valuable reference on emission lines and the astrophysical objects that produce them, for researchers and graduate students.

Leading experts present the current state of knowledge of the subject of magnetoconvection from the viewpoint of applied mathematics.

This thesis describes the application of a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code to accretion disc winds in two types of systems spanning 9 orders of magnitude in mass and size.

Remembrance of Things Past It scarcely seems credible that it was almost exactly thirty years ago that I ?

The interdisciplinary field of Astrobiology constitutes a joint arena where provocative discoveries are coalescing concerning, e.

A few years after the publication of The Physics of Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution, we received a request from the publisher for an up- dated second edition of this popular reference book.

Neutron stars hold a central place in astrophysics, not only because they are made up of the most extreme states of the condensed matter, but also because they are, along with white dwarfs and black holes, one of the stable configurations that stars reach at the end of stellar evolution.

Polarization Spectroscopy of Ionized Gases describes the physical principles of the technique and its applications to remote sensing.

This book presents a study of the saturation of unstable f-modes (fundamental modes) due to low-order nonlinear mode coupling.

Solar-terrestrial physics deals with phenomena in the region of space between the surface of the Sun and the upper atmosphere of the Earth, a region dominated by matter in a plasma state.

The purpose of this meeting was to cover selected topics of high current interest in the interplay between cosmology and fundamental physics.

It is generally felt in the cosmology and particle astrophysics community that we have just entered an era which later can only be looked back upon as a golden age.

When The Planiverse ?

This book provides a comprehensive review of the methodologies and searches for dark matter (DM) annihilation signals using very-high-energy gamma rays (VHE, E > 100 GeV), utilizing data from current Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) in the pre-Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) era.

Chapter 1 introduces elementary classical special functions.

The present set of chapters by members of the staff of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory deals with the basic fields of research concerned with radio astronomy outside the solar system.

The Handbook of Exoplanets contains 15 sections dealing with all aspects of exoplanets and exobiology research, including historic aspects, the Solar System as a template, objects at the planet-to-star transition, exoplanet detection and characterization with related instrumentation, technology and software tools, planet and planet-system statistics with recent and planned surveys, their atmosphere and formation and evolution processes, habitability and exobiology implications, and outlooks for future exploration and science development.

An introduction to cosmic magnetic fields on a range of astrophysical and cosmological scales for young researchers and graduate students.

Professor Eric Forbes left behind at his death an important collection of the letters of John Flamsteed (1646-1719), First Astronomer Royal.

Découverts il y a plus de 30 ans, les quasars et les radiogalaxies sont des galaxies particulières qui manifestent en leur centre une activité intense.

Fulleranes are a special class of carbon molecules derived from fullerenes whose double bonds are partially or at least theoretically fully saturated by hydrogen.

This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on Shocks in Astrophysics held at UMIST, Manchester, England from January 9-12, 1995.

The ultimate proofs that black holes exist have been obtained very recently thanks to the detection of gravitational waves from their coalescence and due to material orbiting at a distance of some gravitational radii imaged by optical interferometry or X-ray reverberation mapping.

Cosmology in Scalar-Tensor Gravity covers all aspects of cosmology in scalar-tensor theories of gravity.

This book is the first account of the physics of magnetic flux tubes from their fundamental properties to collective phenomena in an ensembles of flux tubes.

Long regarded as the finest photographic lunar atlas available, The Hatfield Lunar Atlas is a model of accuracy and clarity.

'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill GatesA user's guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole.

Introduction to Close Binary Systems provides a comprehensive survey and guide to the fast-moving field of multiple, specifically binary, stars, with an up to date account of research around 'close', i.

During the last week of September 1968, ESRIN (the European Space Research Institute) held the ESRIN-ESLAB Symposium on 'Low-Frequency Waves and Irregularities in the Ionosphere' in Frascati, near Rome.

Significant advances have been made recently in both the theoretical understanding and observation of small-scale turbulence in different layers of the Sun, and in the instabilities that give rise to them.

Particle physics and cosmology are united in the standard hot big bang model.

General relativity and quantum mechanics have become the two central pillars of theoretical physics.

Given that the question of an internal magnetic field is of fundamental importance to the understanding of Mars' formation and thermal evolution, and of the evolution of Mars' atmosphere, surprisingly few of the many spacecraft sent to Mars were equipped with instrumentation for such investigations.

This proceedings volume focuses on new methods of image and signal analysis in a wide range of energies (from radio to gamma ray astronomy) and advanced methodologies regarding problems and solutions in information fusion and retrieval, statistical pattern recognition, vision and advances in computing technology.

Ground- or space-based telescopes are becoming increasingly more complex and construction budgets are typically in the billion dollar range.

This book addresses the subject of gravity theories in two and three spacetime dimensions.

The year is 2007, the fiftieth anniversary of the Space Age.

This 6th edition of "e;Tools of Radio Astronomy"e;, the most used introductory text in radio astronomy, has been revised to reflect the current state of this important branch of astronomy.

Long used in undergraduate and introductory graduate courses, Astrophysical Techniques, Seventh Edition provides an accessible yet comprehensive account of the innovate instruments, detectors, and techniques employed in astronomy and astrophysics.

Outlining Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), this volume assesses its viability as the leading alternative to the standard cosmological model.

The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture series has become a very successful tradition in Swedish physics since it started in 1988.

This volume covers topics ranging from the early universe, cosmology, inflation, quantum gravity, exact solutions and computer-aided computations to space and terrestrial gravity experiments, with special emphasis on recent research.

This book highlights a major advance in low-energy scattering theory: the Multi-Channel Algebraic Scattering (MCAS) theory, which represents an attempt to unify structure and reaction theory.