Astrophysics

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.

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.

Unified treatment of electromagnetic, hadronic and gravitational radiation processes associated with relativistic outflows from compact objects.

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.

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

Exciting results are blooming, thanks to a convergence between unprecedented asteroseismic data obtained by the satellites CoRoT and KEPLER, and state-of-the-art models of the internal structure of red giants and of galactic evolution.

Arguably the single most successful scientific instrument ever built, the Hubble Space telescope continues to dazzle.

The announcement in 2012 that the Higgs boson had been discovered was understood as a watershed moment for the Standard Model of particle physics.

Gamma ray astronomy, the branch of high energy astrophysics that studies the sky in energetic y-ray photons, is destined to play a crucial role in the exploration of nonthermal phenomena in the Universe in their most extreme and violent forms.

This book describes the basic physical principles of atomic spectroscopy and the absorption and emission of radiation in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas.

This book aims to provide a survey of the current state of research in the physics of neutrinos, which has undergone dramatic development during the last decade, in a form accessible to the nonspecialist and the graduate stu- dent.

The Physics of Stars, Second Edition, is a concise introduction to the properties of stellar interiors and consequently the structure and evolution of stars.

Prominent progress in science is inevitably associated with controversies.

_________________________*The* puzzle book of 2018, as featured in the Times, Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Breakfast, and a Guardian Book of the Year pick.

This book serves as both a primer to astronomical polarimetry and an authoritative overview of its application to various types of astronomical objects from AGN, compact stars, binary systems, stars across the HR diagram, transients, the interstellar medium and solar system bodies.

This book is a collection of contributions examining cosmology from multiple perspectives.

The author has shown that practically all our laws, principles, and theories are not physically realizable, since they were derived from an empty space paradigm.

The first edition of the monumental book Diseases from Space by Sir Fred Hoyle and N Chandra Wickramasinghe appeared some 40 years ago, encapsulating the key principles of Panspermia, and it has been the guiding principle in the new scientific field of Astrobiology.

This volume presents the lecture notes of the 24th Advanced Course of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy in March 1994 at Les Diablerets.

This textbook gives a lively introduction to the search for extraterrestrial life.

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees shows how the behaviour and origins of the universe can be explained by just six numbers.

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

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

The 34th Saas-Fee advanced course of the Swiss Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (SSAA) took place from March 15 to 20, 2004, in Davos, on the subject of The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate.

In the last decade extra-galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) have gained increasing importance.

Dark matter in the Universe has become one of the most exciting and central fields of astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology.

The collection of papers assembled here on a variety of topics in ancient and medieval astronomy was originally suggested by Noel Swerdlow of the University of Chicago.

This specialized workshop was conceived during the workshop on "e;Non- isotropic and Variable Outflows from Stars"e;, which was held at the Space Telescope Science Institute in October, 1991.

This book is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School on "e;String Theory and the Real World: From particle physics to astrophysics.

THE FAST AND PAINLESS WAY TO GRASP THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BASIC ASTRONOMY .

This book presents scientific research on the central theme of new states of matter and new phenomena in the universe.

This set of lectures deals with the transition from nuclear matter to quark matter.

Most of the relevant topics on the dark matter in the universe are discussed.

This graduate textbook describes the physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background, arguably the most important topic in modern cosmology.

CHOICE: Highly RecommendedQuarks, Leptons and The Big Bang, Third Edition, is a clear, readable and self-contained introduction to particle physics and related areas of cosmology.

This thesis summarizes the original analysis work performed by the author on data from XENON1T, a search for dark matter with a ton-size noble liquid detector operated at Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in Italy.

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.

The 16th volume in the annual series on recent developments and scientific progress in astronomy and astrophysics contains thirteen invited reviews presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on "e;The Cosmic Circuit of Matter"e;, held in Berlin, Germany.

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.

Comets are always very impressive phenomena.

Covering all aspects of gravitation in a contemporary style, this advanced textbook is ideal for graduate students and researchers.

An introduction to special relativity and its applications, with an emphasis on the interaction and production of light in plasma.

Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World presents the most comprehensive description in book form of what is currently known about Titan, the largest satellite of the planet Saturn and arguably the most intriguing and mysterious world in the Solar System.

This is the first comprehensive treatment of active galactic nuclei--the cosmic powerhouses at the core of many distant galaxies.

This essential book is the first comprehensive exposition in the area of optimal low-thrust orbit transfer using non-singular variables.

A fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of a scientific discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves.

Fundamental Astronomy gives a well-balanced and comprehensive introduction to the various fields of classical and modern astronomy.

This book gathers the invited conferences presented at the Thirteenth Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting (JENAM) organized by the - ropean Astronomical Society (EAS) and the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Espanola de Astronomia, SEA) and hosted by the Instituto de - trofisica de Andalucia (IAA - CSIC).