Astrophysics

This monograph traces the development of our understanding of how and where energetic particles are accelerated in the heliosphere and how they may reach the Earth.

This book develops a general approach that can be systematically refined to investigate the statics and dynamics of deformable solid bodies.

This thesis develops new and powerful methods for identifying planetary signals in the presence of "e;noise"e; generated by stellar activity, and explores the physical origin of stellar intrinsic variability, using unique observations of the Sun seen as a star.

This book provides detailed calculated values for the thermal radiative and thermodynamic functions of black-body radiation in finite spectral ranges.

In order to outline possible future directions in galaxy research, this book wants to be a short stopover, a moment of self-reflection of the past century of achievements in this area.

Small neutrino masses are the first signs of new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.

This prize-winning Ph.

This book provides a compact yet comprehensive overview of recentdevelopments in collisional-radiative (CR) modeling of laboratory andastrophysical plasmas.

This thesis discusses the evolution of galaxies through the study of the morphology, kinematics, and star formation properties of a sample of nearby galaxies.

This thesis covers a diverse set of topics related to space-based gravitational wave detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).

This extensive thesis work covers several topics, including intensity and polarization, focusing on a new polarization bias reduction method.

This brief brings together the theoretical aspects of star formation and ionized regions with the most up-to-date simulations and observations.

These proceedings gather invited and contributed talks presented at the XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in December 2014.

This thesis considers the non-equilibrium and energy transfer processes involved in the evolution of astrophysical gases and plasmas.

This is the problems and solution manual for the graduate text with the same title and published as Lecture Notes in Physics Vol 877 which provides the necessary mathematical and physics background to understand the transport of gases, charged particle gases, energetic charged particles, turbulence, and radiation in an astrophysical and space physics context.

The mapping of the surface of stars requires diverse skills, analysis techniques and advanced modeling, i.

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.

This thesis presents the results of indirect dark matter searches in the gamma-ray sky of the near Universe, as seen by the MAGIC Telescopes.

All stars are born in groups.

This book, written for a general readership, reviews and explains the three-body problem in historical context reaching to latest developments in computational physics and gravitation theory.

This thesis reports on investigations of a specific collective mode of nuclear vibration, the isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR), the nuclear "e;breathing mode"e;, the energy of which is directly related to a fundamental property of nuclei-the nuclear incompressibility.

This book takes the reader for a short journey over the structures of matter showing that their main properties can be obtained even at a quantitative level with a minimum background knowledge including, besides first year calculus and physics, the extensive use of dimensional analysis and the three cornerstones of science, namely the atomic idea, the wave-particle duality and the minimization of energy as the condition for equilibrium.

This thesis is devoted to ANTARES, the first underwater neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean sea.

This book presents an overview of the current understanding of gravitation, with a focus on the current efforts to test its theory, especially general relativity.

The authors give an overview of atomic diffusion as applied to all types of stars, showing where it plays an essential role and how it can be implemented in modelling.

Based on graduate school lectures in contemporary relativity and gravitational physics, this book gives a complete and unified picture of the present status of theoretical and observational properties of astrophysical black holes.

With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures.

The goal of the project presented in this book is to detect neutrinos created by resonant interactions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays on the CMB photon field filling the Universe.

This collection of science fiction writings by Jayant V.

This book provides a general introduction to the rapidly developing astrophysical frontier of stellar tidal disruption, but also details original thesis research on the subject.

This volume gathers the content of the courses held at the Third IDPASC School, which took place in San Martino Pinario, Hospederia and Seminario Maior, in the city of Santiago de Compostela, Galiza, Spain, from January 21st to February 2nd, 2013.

The detection of radial and non-radial solar-like oscillations in thousands of G-K giants with CoRoT and Kepler is paving the road for detailed studies of stellar populations in the Galaxy.

This book offers review chapters written by invited speakers of the 3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics - Gravitational Waves Astrophysics.

This volume presents the latest research results on solar prominences, including new developments on e.

This book reviews the phenomenology displayed by relativistic jets as well as the most recent theoretical efforts to understand the physical mechanisms at their origin.

This book, which is a reworked and updated version of Steven Bloemen's original PhD thesis, reports on several high-precision studies of compact variable stars.

In this book an international group of specialists discusses studies of exoplanets subjected to extreme stellar radiation and plasma conditions.

This book presents the status of research on very massive stars in the Universe.

The work developed in this thesis addresses very important and relevant issues of accretion processes around black holes.

Simon Murphy's thesis has significant impact on the wide use of the revolutionary Kepler Mission data, leading to a new understanding in stellar astrophysics.

This book is dedicated to readers who want to learn fluid dynamics from the beginning.

The zeta Aurigae stars are the rare but illustrious sub-group of binary stars that undergo the dramatic phenomenon of "e;chromospheric eclipse"e;.

The focus of his prize-winning thesis is on observations and modeling of binary millisecond pulsars.

This course-tested textbook conveys the fundamentals of magnetic fields and relativistic plasma in diffuse cosmic media, with a primary focus on phenomena that have been observed at different wavelengths.

This book is an introduction to "e;multi-messenger"e; astrophysics.

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

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

The sine-Gordon model is a ubiquitous model of Mathematical Physics with a wide range of applications extending from coupled torsion pendula and Josephson junction arrays to gravitational and high-energy physics models.

Introduces hydrodynamics to undergraduate students in physics and astrophysics.

In this PhD thesis, which was nominated for publication in this series by the Astronomical Institute at Charles University, Prague, the author investigates the orbital evolution of an initially thin stellar disc around a supermassive black hole, considering various perturbative sources of gravity.