Astrophysics

This thesis presents two significant results in the field of precision measurements in low-energy nuclear physics.

These lecture notes are intended for starting PhD students in theoretical physics who have a working knowledge of General Relativity.

This textbook gives an introduction to fluid dynamics based on flows for which analytical solutions exist, like individual vortices, vortex streets, vortex sheets, accretions disks, wakes, jets, cavities, shallow water waves, bores, tides, linear and non-linear free-surface waves, capillary waves, internal gravity waves and shocks.

This book addresses various aspects of physics, using Quantum oscillation (QO) as a common denominator.

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 by Cole Johnston brings novel insights into the inner workings of young massive stars.

This book serves as a textbook for senior undergraduate students who are learning the subject of general relativity and gravitational waves for the first time.

Here is an accurate and readable translation of a seminal article by Henri Poincare that is a classic in the study of dynamical systems popularly called chaos theory.

This book focuses on the most recent, relevant, comprehensive and significant aspects in the well-established multidisciplinary field Laboratory Astrophysics.

This book presents the proceedings of the IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences entitled "e;Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds"e;.

This thesis presents studies of the starless core populations of three nearby molecular clouds made as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Gould Belt Survey.

This book deals with the interdisciplinary areas of nuclear physics, supernovae and neutron star physics.

The raw numbers of high-energy-density physics are amazing: shock waves at hundreds of km/s (approaching a million km per hour), temperatures of millions of degrees, and pressures that exceed 100 million atmospheres.

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 thesis develops the dispersive optical model into a tool that allows for the assessment of the validity of nuclear reaction models, thereby generating unambiguous removal probabilities of nucleons from valence orbits using the electron-induced proton knockout reaction.

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.

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 book focuses on new experimental and theoretical advances concerning the role of strange and heavy-flavour quarks in high-energy heavy-ion collisions and in astrophysical phenomena.

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

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.

The aim of this textbook is to present in a comprehensive way several advanced topics of general relativity, including gravitational waves, tests of general relativity, time delay, spinors in curved spacetime, Hawking radiation, and geodetic precession to mention a few.

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.

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.

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

With foreword by astrophysicist and Queen guitarist Brian MayThis book describes the unlikely development of astrophysics in Spain, set against the final decade of Franco's rule and the country's transition to democracy.

All stars are born in groups.

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

This thesis reports the discovery of relativistic stellar explosions outside of the gamma ray band, using optical time domain surveys.

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 book offers a comprehensive and complete description of a new scheme to stabilize the power of a laser on a level needed for high precision metrology experiments.

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.

In his PhD dissertation Martin Bo Nielsen performs observational studies of rotation in stars like the Sun.

This book is dedicated to readers who want to learn fluid dynamics from the beginning.

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.

This book aims at providing a solid basis for the education of the next generation of researchers in hot, dense QCD (Quantum ChromoDynamics) matter.

This book introduces the phenomenology of gravitational lensing in an accessible manner and provides a thorough discussion of the related astrophysical applications.

This textbook presents ultraviolet and X-ray astronomy, gamma-ray astronomy, cosmic ray astronomy, neutrino astronomy, and gravitational wave astronomy as distinct research areas, focusing on the astrophysics targets and the requirements with respect to instrumentation and observation methods.

This present book discusses the application of the methods to astrophysical data from different perspectives.

This book introduces particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.

Space debris and asteroid impacts pose a very real, very near-term threat to Earth.

Cosmology and astroparticle physics have seen an avalanche of discoveries in the past decade (IceCube - high energy neutrinos, LIGO - gravitational waves, Fermi- gamma-ray telescope, Xenon-1T - dark matter detection, PLANCK- cosmic microwave radiation, EHT picture of black hole, SDSS -galaxy surveys), all of which require a multidisciplinary background for analyzing the phenomena.

This brief book provides an overview of the gravitational orbital evolution of few-body systems, in particular those consisting of three bodies.

This thesis is a comprehensive work that addresses many of the open questions currently being discusssed in the very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray community.

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

This book develops a general approach that can be systematically refined to investigate the statics and dynamics of deformable solid bodies.

This book equips the reader with a coherent understanding of the structure of the Sun and its evolution and provides all the knowledge required to construct a simplified model of the Sun.