Astrophysics

Provides an up-to-date overview of the theoretical, experimental and analytical tools for carrying out asteroseismological observations and inferences.

This book provides readers with the skills they need to write computer codes that simulate convection, internal gravity waves, and magnetic field generation in the interiors and atmospheres of rotating planets and stars.

This book focuses on new experimental and theoretical advances concerning the role of strange and heavy-flavour quarks in high-energy heavy-ion collisions and in astrophysical phenomena.

Since the discovery of the cluster soft excess (CSE) over eight years ago, its properties and origin have been the subject of debate.

Textbook in cosmology covering established and speculative research for advanced students of physics and astrophysics.

Interest in and knowledge of the techniques utilised to investigate our solar system has been growing rapidly for decades and has now reached a stage of maturity.

"e;The agricultural sky"e; is a dominant natural entity that has influenced, interacted with, and guided the evolution of crops, farming practices, and cropping systems.

In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics.

This accessible and entertaining biography chronicles the life and triumphs of astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who helped lay the foundations of modern astronomy in the 20th century.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The Los Alamos Chapman Conference on Magnetospheric Substorms and Related Plasma Processes can be considered the fourth in a series devoted to magnetospheric substorms, after the Moscow (1971), Houston (1972), and Bryce Mountain (1974) meetings.

Relativity Made Relatively Easy presents an extensive study of Special Relativity and a gentle (but exact) introduction to General Relativity for undergraduate students of physics.

Parting the Cosmic Veil describes our gradual awareness of a vast, previously concealed Universe.

An overview of modern cosmology, accessible to undergraduate students, with emphasis on physical foundations and relations to modern observations.

The physics of neutrinos--uncharged elementary particles that are key to helping us better understand the nature of our universe--is one of the most exciting frontiers of modern science.

This book is based on the author's work at the Double Chooz Experiment, from 2010 to 2013, the goal of which was to search for electronic anti-neutrino disappearance close to nuclear power plant facilities as a result of neutrino oscillation.

This book contains the lectures given at the workshop "e;Dynamo and dynamics, a mathematical challenge"e; held in Cargese from August 21 to 26, 2000.

The study of the magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun, as well as those of other planets, stars, and galaxies, has a long history and a rich and varied literature, including in recent years a number of review articles and books dedicated to the dynamo theories of these fields.

This concise and systematic account of the current state of this new branch of astrophysics presents the theoretical foundations of plasma astrophysics, magneto-hydrodynamics and coronal magnetic structures, taking into account the full range of available observation techniques -- from radio to gamma.

Four centuries ago, Galileo first turned a telescope to look up at the night sky.

This textbook provides students with a solid introduction to the techniques of approximation commonly used in data analysis across physics and astronomy.

High-accuracy Doppler shift measurements and high-precision spectroscopy are primary techniques in the search for exo-planets.

This book bridges the gap between physics and astronomy texts for undergraduate and graduate students.

Advanced technologies in astronomy at various wavelengths have provided us with high resolution and high quality data on the QSO population.

Non-accelerator particle physicists, especially those studying neutrino oscillation experiments, will read with profit the in-depth discussions of new results and their interpretations.

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.

CHOICE Highly Recommended 2021Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson's Electron to Higgs' Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to the completion of the Standard Model of particle physics in the early 21st century.

This second edition of Particles in the Dark Universe has been substantially enhanced with several new chapters that delve into crucial aspects of particle physics in the Universe.

Solar and geomagnetic variability are of considerable interest for scientists of many different persuasions and indeed one has the distinct impression that for the sun at least, there is direct relevance for mankind in general as the interrelation between solar and terrestrial phenomena is starting to be appreciated.

The ideal one-semester astrophysics introduction for science undergraduates-now expanded and fully updatedWinner of the American Astronomical Society's Chambliss Award, Astrophysics in a Nutshell has become the text of choice in astrophysics courses for science majors at top universities in North America and beyond.

Ideal for advanced students, this comprehensive overview of molecular astrophysics bridges physics, astronomy, and physical chemistry.

A graduate-level introduction to the interface between particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmologyThis book explores the exciting interface between the fields of cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, and particle physics, at a level suitable for advanced undergraduate- to graduate-level students as well as active researchers.

Questo libro fornisce una panoramica completa dello sviluppo della fisica dei raggi cosmici, con considerazioni storiche e didattiche, dalle prime prove dell'esistenza della radiazione extraterrestre fino alle più recenti applicazioni dei muoni cosmici in diversi aspetti della vita quotidiana.

With the awareness that the Earth has a magnetic field, its mathematical description, discovery of remanent magnetisation in rocks and discovery of the periodic reversals of the geomagnetic field polarity, geomagnetism within geophysics became an interesting field of study.

This book covers the results obtained in the Tera op Workbench project during a four years period from 2004 to 2008.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts aims to present a comprehensive documen- tation of the literature concerning all aspects of astronomy, astrophysics, and their border fields.

This textbook on the nature of space and time explains the new theory of Space Dynamics, which describes the dynamics of gravity as the evolution of conformal 3-dimensional geometry.

This book is the first monograph dedicated to the use of the total absorption technique in beta decay studies.

Based on a Simons Symposium held in 2018, the proceedings in this volume focus on the theoretical, numerical, and observational quest for dark matter in the universe.

When we look at a starry night sky, we are looking out through vast invisible expanses of our own Solar System.

This book is a comprehensive survey of the current state of knowledge about the dynamics and gravitational properties of cosmic strings treated in the idealized classical approximation as line singularities described by the Nambu-Goto action.

The Proceedings discusses the present state of the art in detector development and design for high energy particle physics and astrophysics, both for the next generation experiments and for apparatus upgrade.

A concise introduction and overview of variable stars, for undergraduate students and experienced amateur astronomers, first published in 2007.

This book reviews the state of the art in the exploitation of machine learning techniques for the astrophysics community and gives the reader a complete overview of the field.

The 25th International Cosmic Ray Conference marked the golden jubilee of this series of conferences.

Written by a leading expert, this monograph presents recent developments on supernova remnants, with the inclusion of results from various satellites and ground-based instruments.