Astrophysics

Cryogenic engineering (cryogenics) is the production, preservation, and use or application of cold.

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays carry information about their sources and the intervening medium apart from providing a beam of particles for studying certain features of high energy interactions currently inaccessible at man-made accelerators.

This book discusses cosmology from both an observational and a strong theoretical perspective.

This book is an original study aimed at understanding how vacuum magnetic fields change with time.

Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, welcome to Kemer to the NATO Advanced Study Institute Structure and Dynamics of Elementary Matter.

Understanding the Universe: The Physics of the Cosmos from Quasars to Quarks explores how all areas of physics, from the very smallest scales to the very largest, come together to form our current understanding of the Universe.

Jean-Pierre Vigier continually labeled one of les heretiques de la science, l'eternel resistant et le patriarche is yet a pillar of modern physics and mathematics, with one leg firmly planted in theory and the other in empiricism spanning a career of nearly 60 years with a publication vitae quickly approaching 400!

This book represents Volume II of the Proceedings of the UN/ESA/NASA Workshop on the International Heliophysical Year 2007 and Basic Space Science, hosted by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, 18 - 22 June, 2007.

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

From the reviews: "e;Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts has appeared in semi-annual volumes since 1969 and it has already become one of the fundemental publications in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics and neighbouring sciences.

La Caille was one of the observational astronomers and geodesists who followed Newton in developing ideas about celestial mechanics and the shape of the earth.

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This book is a collection of comprehensive reviews on astrophysics at the highest energies.

This book reports the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;An- gular Momentum Evolution of Young Stars"e; held from 17 to 21 September 1990 at Noto, Italy.

More than half of all stars in the universe formed and evolved as binary systems and their study is essential for understanding stellar and galactic evolution.

The physics of neutrinos has acquired a rapidly increasing role within the realm of particle physics.

Mit diesem Buch begeben Sie sich auf die spannende Suche nach der Dunklen Materie, die nach dem aktuellen Stand der Forschung den Großteil der Masse unseres Universums ausmacht.

This volume contains the invited papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Theory of Sunspots, held in Cambridge, England, 22-27 September 1991.

This volume is the updated and extended translation of the Russian original.

This book summarizes the recent progress in the physics and astrophysics of neutron stars and, most importantly, it identifies and develops effective strategies to explore, both theoretically and observationally, the many remaining open questions in the field.

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.

Stellar pulsations provide a complex system in stars.

This handbook provides an updated comprehensive description of gravitational wave astronomy.

This long-awaited second edition of the classical textbook on Stellar Structure and Evolution by Kippenhahn and Weigert is a thoroughly revised version of the original text.

These conferences are the major forum for dissemination of new research results by cosmic ray physicists.

**WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS** What came before the Big Bang?

What do we know about the origins of the Universe, and more important, how do we know it?

The series of books discusses the physics of laser and matter interaction, fluid dynamics of high-temperature and high-density compressible plasma, and kinetic phenomena and particle dynamics in laser-produced plasma.

This new and unique book discusses various aspects of cosmic ray physics and astrophysics.

This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development.

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 is about the 1604 supernova and presents the translation of key documents discussing this astronomical event in Italy.

Telescopes - refractors and reflectors - are the main items of equipment used by almost every amateur astronomer.

NASA's Genesis mission, launched on August 8, 2001 is the fifth mission in the Discovery series.

Pulsar timing is a promising method for detecting gravitational waves in the nano-Hertz band.

An ideal introduction to Einstein's general theory of relativityThis unique textbook provides an accessible introduction to Einstein's general theory of relativity, a subject of breathtaking beauty and supreme importance in physics.

Student-friendly, well illustrated textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in physics and mathematics.

The international symposium Towards an Integrated Global Geodetic Observing System was an initiative of section II Advanced Space Technology of the International Association of Geodesy (lAG).

An almost complete collection of the papers given at the International Workshop on Imaging in High Energy Astronomy (Anacapri, Italy, 1994).

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

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.

A Brief History of Time for the 21st CenturyAt the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp.

This textbook offers a comprehensible introduction to the physical fundamentals of the processes in our universe.

Emphasizing a physical understanding with many illustrations, Introduction to the Physics of Highly Charged Ions covers the major areas of x-ray radiation and elementary atomic processes occurring with highly charged ions in hot laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.

This is the second ESO workshop in aseries dedicated to science oppor- tunities with the VLT.

Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe?

We are at the dawn of a new era in the study of space, all thanks to the Galileo space probe.

This book offers an overview of the fundamental dynamical processes, which are necessary to understand astrophysical phenomena, from the viewpoint of hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and radiation hydrodynamics.