Astrophysics

This volume presents the state-of-the-art in selected topics across modern nuclear physics, covering fields of central importance to research and illustrating their connection to many different areas of physics.

This didactic book uses a data-driven approach to connect measurements made by plasma instruments to the real world.

This book's interdisciplinary scope aims at bridging various communities: 1) cosmochemists, who study meteoritic samples from our own solar system, 2) (sub-) millimetre astronomers, who measure the distribution of dust and gas of star-forming regions and planet-forming discs, 3) disc modellers, who describe the complex photo-chemical structure of parametric discs to fit these to observation, 4) computational astrophysicists, who attempt to decipher the dynamical structure of magnetised gaseous discs, and the effects the resulting internal structure has on the aerodynamic re-distribution of embedded solids, 5) theoreticians in planet formation theory, who aim to piece it all together eventually arriving at a coherent holistic picture of the architectures of planetary systems discovered by 6) the exoplanet observers, who provide us with unprecedented samples of exoplanet worlds.

The revealing of the phenomenon of superhydrophobicity (the "e;lotus-effect"e;) has stimulated an interest in wetting of real (rough and chemically heterogeneous) surfaces.

This book presents lecture materials from the Third LOFAR Data School, transformed into a coherent and complete reference book describing the LOFAR design, along with descriptions of primary science cases, data processing techniques, and recipes for data handling.

The origin of the Moon remains an unsolved problem of the planetary science.

This work provides the current theory and observations behind the cosmological phenomenon of dark energy.

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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.

Cosmology's journey to the present day has been a long one.

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The aim of this book is to present the theory and applications of the relativistic Boltzmann equation in a self-contained manner, even for those readers who have no familiarity with special and general relativity.

Because of the correspondences existing among all levels of reality, truths pertaining to a lower level can be considered as symbols of truths at a higher level and can therefore be the "e;foundation"e; or support leading by analogy to a knowledge of the latter.

The development of the mechanics of space flight brought to life a whole series of fascinating and novel problems.

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

This book reviews the construction of elementary systems living in de Sitter (dS) spacetime, in both the classical and quantum senses.

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

This book is based on the lectures given at the "e;Euroschool on Exotic Beams"e; and collects contributions which address topics from the traditional core of the field of exotic nuclei like nuclear structure far from stability, discussing recent theoretical developments and state-of-the-art experimental methods.

This thesis addresses the feasibility of the production of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays in starburst galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

Cosmology's journey to the present day has been a long one.

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.

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

This book is a pedagogical guide on how to make computations in direct dark matter (DM) detection.

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

This book discusses analytic and asymptotic methods relevant to radiative transfer in dilute media, such as stellar and planetary atmospheres.

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.

This textbook is designed to serve as a link between the basic disciplines of physics and the frontier topics within high energy astrophysics, aiming at a level of difficulty congruent with that of other physics topics studied at undergraduate level.

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

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 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 book includes nine chapters written by internationally recognized experts, covering all aspects of millisecond pulsars in one concise and cohesive volume.

This book provides the latest achievements and original research work in physics of combustion processes and application of the methods developed in combustion physics for astrophysical problems of stars burning, supernovae explosions and a confined thermonuclear fusion.

This book seeks to present a new way of thinking about the interaction of gravitational fields with quantum systems.

With a focus on modified gravity this book presents a review of the recent developments in the fields of gravity and cosmology, presenting the state of the art, high-lighting the open problems, and outlining the directions of future research.

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

This book provides an introduction to relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics, with particular emphasis on its derivation from microscopic transport theory.