Astrophysics

Predicting Motion presents the core ideas of Newtonian mechanics, starting from Newton's laws and the idea that changes in motion are predictable given the forces that cause them.

In the past two decades a succession of direct observations by satellites, and of extensive computer simulations, has led to the realization that the polar ionosphere plays a principal role in large-scale magnetospheric processes - a manifestation of the physics linkage involved in solar-terrestrial interactions.

The space between the stars contains a large diversity of objects in which physical processes occur that are fundamental to the structure and evolution of galaxies.

Nuclear physics is an exciting, broadly faceted field.

This book highlights selected topics of standard and modern theory of accretion onto black holes and magnetized neutron stars.

A variety of evolutionary sequences of models for the solar interior has been computed, corresponding to variations in input data, to obtain some idea of the uncertainties involved in predicting a solar neutrino flux.

The primary purpose of this book is to prepare the ground for coordinated efforts aiming to answer the question: where and when life originated.

A catalog of all published HI observations of external galaxies has been compiled.

A complete text on the physics of gamma-ray bursts, the most brilliant explosions since the Big Bang.

An account of classic and contemporary aspects of astrophysics, with an emphasis on analytical calculations and physical understanding.

Much progress has been made in recent years in understanding the complex physics of polarized radiation in the sun and stars.

This book reports on the extraordinary observation of TeV gamma rays from the Crab Pulsar, the most energetic light ever detected from this type of object.

Accretion disks are ubiquitous in our universe, and produce intense brightening.

Phenomena in space physics are complex and their understanding often requires the integration of different concepts of space physics.

How did electrons in the high atmosphere and space around the Earth come to acquire their speeds and energies?

"e;This book provides up-to-date knowledge of space debris and valuable insights on how to grapple with this issue from legal, technical, economical and societal aspects.

Explores fundamental philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of life, particularly in relation to the search for extraterrestrial life.

This Catalog originated as a common enterprise of solar physicists and space scientists under the auspices of the Second Working Group of the Inter-Union Commission of Solar Terrestrial Physics (IUCSTP).

Perhaps the most common question that a child asks when he or she sees the night sky from a dark site for the first time is: 'How many stars are there?

Bright gamma-ray flares observed from sources far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy are best explained if enormous amounts of energy are liberated by black holes.

The 1972 Banff lectures attempted a systematic exposition of the ideas underlying recent developments in general relativity and its astronomical applications at a level accessible and useful to graduate students having some previous acquaintance with the subject.

You're no idiot, of course.

Bringing together leading researchers from particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, Lepton and Baryon Number Violation in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology presents reviews of current theoretical ideas, experimental results, and future perspectives in this topical field.

in this work, we must therefore assume several abstract concepts that hardly need defending at this point in the history of mechanics.

Supernovae are highly energetic phenomena for which it is necessary to use simultaneously particle physics, nuclear physics and hydrodynamics to study the creation of the strong explosions involved.

Cosmology has not been the subject matter of a Saas-Fee Advanced Course since 1978.

This book aims at providing an accessible, and yet comprehensive and self-contained discussion of compact stars.

The last two subjects mentioned in the title "e;Wavelets"e; are so well established that they do not need any explanations.

This book features several of the significant scientific debates and controversies that helped develop space science in the early space era.

This thesis focuses on the recent firewall controversy surrounding evaporating black holes, and shows that in the best understood example concerning electrically charged black holes with a flat event horizon in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, the firewall does not arise.

Photopolarimetric remote sensing is vital in fields as diverse as medical diagnostics, astrophysics, atmospheric science, environmental monitoring and military intelligence.

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time.

Since its launch in 1991, the Yohkoh satellite has been returning unprecedented observations of solar flares and the dynamic solar corona.

This book consists of invited reviews written by world-renowned experts on the subject of the outskirts of galaxies, an upcoming field which has been understudied so far.

Top researchers in the field of gravitation present the state-of-the-art topics outlined in this book, ranging from the stability of rotating wormholes solutions supported by ghost scalar fields, modified gravity applied to wormholes, the study of novel semi-classical and nonlinear energy conditions, to the applications of quantum effects and the superluminal version of the warp drive in modified spacetime.

This is the fifth in the important series of Moscow Seminars on Quantum Gravity.

This second edition contains corrections of misprints and errors found by the author, as well as those suggested during the Russian translation of the first printing.

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.

This book on recent investigations of the dynamics of celestial bodies in the solar and extra-Solar System is based on the elaborated lecture notes of a thematic school on the topic, held as a result of cooperation between the SYRTE Department of Paris Observatory and the section of astronomy of the Vienna University.

The usual book on the theory of spectral line formation begins with an in-depth dis- cussion of radiation transfer, including the elegant methods of obtaining analytical solutions for special cases, and of the physics of line broadening.

Unifying the Universe: The Physics of Heaven and Earth presents a non-technical approach to physics for the lay-science enthusiast.

Climate models show that climate change is not a uniform process.

Long before Galileo published his discoveries about Jupiter, lunar craters, and the Milky Way in the Starry Messenger in 1610, people were fascinated with the planets and stars around them.

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

This book takes a reader on a tour of astronomical phenomena: from the vastness of the interstellar medium, to the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems, through to white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, the final objects of the stellar graveyard.

There have been many books on Dynamical Astronomy up to now.

As in the days following Skylab, solar physics came to the end of an era when the So- lar Maximum Mission re-entered the earth's atmosphere in December 1989.

The thesis represents the development of an entirely new experimental platform for generating and studying converging radiative shock waves.

The dark universe contains matter and energy unidentifiable with current physical models, accounting for 95% of all the matter and energetic equivalent in the universe.