Astrophysics

This book lays the foundations of gas- and fluid dynamics.

Galaxies have a history.

This is volume 3 of Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems, a six-volume compendium of modern astronomical research covering subjects of key interest to the main fields of contemporary astronomy.

"Phänomene der Wirklichkeit" ist eine Sammlung beispielhafter Weltbilder, die die Bedeutung des Wirklichkeits-Pluralismus, wie ihn der Autor im "Kaleidoskop der Wirklichkeiten" dargestellt hat, näher illustrieren.

This is volume 3 of Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems, a six-volume compendium of modern astronomical research covering subjects of key interest to the main fields of contemporary astronomy.

The thesis tackles two distinct problems of great interest in gravitational mechanics - one relativistic and one Newtonian.

Einstein's theory of general relativity is one of the pillars of modern physics and it is our standard framework for describing gravitational fields and the spacetime structure.

This textbook provides an accessible and self-contained introduction to the physics behind fluid dynamics; exploring the laws of nature describing three out of four fundamental states of matter (liquids, gases, and plasmas).

Cosmic rays consist of elementary particles with enormous energy which originate from outside our solar system and constantly hit the Earth's atmosphere.

This volume consists of invited lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "e;The Gamma Ray Sky with COMPTON GRO and SIGMA"e; , which was held at the Centre de Physique Theorique of Les Houches (France) in January / February 1994.

This is one of the very few books focusing on relativistic statistical mechanics, and is written by a leading expert in this special field.

Streamlining the extensive information from the original, highly acclaimed monograph, this new An Introduction to the Physics of Interstellar Dust provides a concise reference and overview of interstellar dust and the interstellar medium.

This book offers an updated comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of GRMHD simulations.

Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy documents numerous successful collaborations among computer scientists, statisticians, and astronomers who illustrate the application of state-of-the-art machine learning and data mining techniques in astronomy.

This book presents novel observational evidence toward detecting and characterizing the products of massive, interacting binary stars.

A Broad Perspective on the Theory of General Relativity and Its Observable ImplicationsGeneral Relativity: Basics and Beyond familiarizes students and beginning researchers with the basic features of the theory of general relativity as well as some of its more advanced aspects.

This thesis makes two important contributions to plasma physics.

Dieses reich bebilderte Buch gibt eine Einführung in die Physik der Sonne und ihre Bedeutung für die Erde.

This prizewinning PhD thesis presents a general discussion of the orbital motion close to solar system small bodies (SSSBs), which induce non-central asymmetric gravitational fields in their neighborhoods.

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.

Astronomy, astrophysics and space research have developed extensively and rapidly in the last few decades.

These Proceedings result from the papers and discussions of the U.

Big Data in Radio Astronomy: Scientific Data Processing for Advanced Radio Telescopes provides the latest research developments in big data methods and techniques for radio astronomy.

Over the last decade we entered a new exploration phase of solar flare physics, equipped with powerful spacecraft such as Yohkoh, SoHO, and TRACE that pro- vide us detail-rich and high-resolution images of solar flares in soft X-rays, hard X -rays, and extreme-ultraviolet wavelengths.

This book examines gravitational collapse for graduate students and researchers in gravitation physics, fundamental physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.

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

This volume provides timely coverage of nonaccelerator astroparticle physics.

Bewildering features of modern physics, such as relativistic space-time structure and the peculiarities of so-called quantum statistics, challenge traditional ways of conceiving of objects in space and time.

In recent years there has been a steadily increasing cross-fertilization between cosmology and particle physics, on both the theoretical and experimental levels.

A thorough introduction to radio astronomy and techniques for students and researchers approaching radio astronomy for the first time.

Active Galactic Nuclei This AGN textbook gives an overview on the current knowledge of the Active Galacitc Nuclei phenomenon.

The present monograph as well as the next one (Dorman, M2005) is a result of more than 50 years working in cosmic ray (CR) research.

These proceedings sample new results derived from extended-objected IR observations and explore the capabilities of large-aperture, low-scattered-light instrumentation.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts aims to present a comprehensive documen- tation of the literature concerning all aspects of astronomy, astrophysics, and their border fields.

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.

This volume presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the XXIII DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium 2018, which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, on 10-15 December 2018.

This is an invaluable collection of colloquium-type lectures given by some of the most prominent theoretical physicists of today.

There's a whole universe out there.

This book is an introduction to pulsars, a key area in high energy astrophysics with continuing potential for fundamental discoveries.

From time immemorial, poets and philosophers have looked in awe and wonder at the Universe.

In early April 1911 Albert Einstein arrived in Prague to become full professor of theoretical physics at the German part of Charles University.

This volume is devoted to one of the fascinating things about stars: how they evolve as they age.

In this book, renowned scientists describe the complexity of exoplanetary atmospheres and all of the observational techniques that are employed to probe them.

Filled with data about the Earth, Moon, the planets, the stars, our Galaxy, and the myriad galaxies in deep space, this invaluable resource reveals the latest scientific discoveries about black holes, quasars, and the origins of the Universe.

Astronomy isthemostancientsciencehumanshavepracticedonEarth.

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

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