Astrophysics

"e;How to Observe the Sun Safely, 2nd Edition"e; gives all the basic information and advice the amateur astronomer needs to get started in observing our own ever-fascinating star.

As the need for accurate and non-invasive optical characterization and diagnostic techniques is rapidly increasing, it is imperative to find improved ways of extracting the additional information contained within the measured parameters of the scattered light.

The International Conference on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems was held on the campus of Boston College in Newton, Massachusetts, August 3-10, 1997.

Black holes entered the world of science fiction and films in the 1960s, and their popularity in our culture remains today.

A guide to the fascinating interplay between particle physics and astrophysics that highlights the discovery of neutrino oscillations Written by three international experts on the topic, Solar Neutrino Physics offers a review of the status of solar physics with its strong link to neutrino physics.

The Symposium 'The Magnetospheres of the Earth and Jupiter' (May 28th-June 1st, 1974 in Frascati) was organized by the 'Laboratorio Plasma Spazio' of the CNR, on the occasion of its moving to the Frascati area.

The main theme of the book is the presentation of techniques used to identify chaotic behavior in the evolution of conservative mechanical systems and their application to astronomical systems.

In summary, we can conclude that the contributions of the different ionization processes to the total ionization rate for the most abundant interstellar species are basically known.

Cox brings a magical enchantment to this life-changing book.

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference on laboratory astrophysics, which gathered a broad interdisciplinary community of astrophysicists, physicists, chemists, and geophysicists.

This second, revised and thoroughly updated edition of the successful textbook by Claus Grupen describes the branch of astrophysics known as astroparticle physics.

"e;This book provides up-to-date knowledge of space debris and valuable insights on how to grapple with this issue from legal, technical, economical and societal aspects.

Physics of the invisible Sun: Instrumentation, Observations, and Inferences provides a new updated perspectives of the dramatic developments in solar physics mainly after the advent of the space era.

Graduate textbook on astrophysical fluid dynamics for graduate students in astrophysics, physics and applied mathematics.

This advanced undergraduate text introduces Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Valuable reference resource for students and researchers containing over 250 full-color images of some of the best-observed galaxies.

This book contains review papers covering HST''s main achievements and future observations, for researchers and graduate students.

This monograph gives a comprehensive presentation of the SL(2,C) Gauge Theory of Gravitation along with some recent developments in the problem of Conservation Laws in General Relativity.

Galaxies have a history.

Remote Sensing from a New Perspective The idea for this book began many years ago, when I was asked to teach a course on remote sensing.

Although gravity is the dominant force of nature at large distances (from intermediate scales to the Hubble length), it is the weakest of forces in particle physics, though it is believed to become important again at very short scales (the Planck length).

An up-to-date progress report on the current status of solar-terrestrial relation studies with an emphasis on observations by the Russian Interball spacecraft and the Czech Magion subsatellites.

This thesis combines a theoretical model of galaxy formation with a treatment of the radiative transfer in the titular dusty star-forming galaxies.

Subtlety in Relativity is the only book that has been written after the author's discovery of a new way in which wave phenomena occur-the emission origin of waves.

This thesis focuses on understanding the growth and formation mechanism of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), an issue it addresses by investigating the dense interstellar medium that is assumed to be a crucial component of the fuel for SMBHs.

These are the Proceedings of the Second CESRA Workshop on Particle Acceleration and Trapping in Solar Flares.

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

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.

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.

With stunning regularity, the search for our cosmic roots has been yielding remarkable new discoveries about the universe and our place in it.

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

A lucid introduction for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and an authoritative overview for researchers and professional scientists.

Introduces hydrodynamics to undergraduate students in physics and astrophysics.

Light observed from distant objects is found to be deflected by the gravitational field of massive objects near the line of sight - an effect predicted by Einstein in his first paper setting forth the general theory of relativity, and confirmed by Eddington soon afterwards.

These are the proceedings of the Symposium 3 of JENAM 2011 on new scientific challenges posed by the Sun.

This book gives a detailed overview of the theory of electromagnetic wave scattering on single, homogeneous, but nonspherical particles.

Geospace features highly dynamic populations of charged particles with a wide range of energies from thermal to ultra-relativistic.

Space exploration, especially the recent push for the commercialization and militarization of space, is attracting increased attention not only from the wider public and the private sector but also from scholars in a wide range of disciplines.

The main topics covered by the book regard the new developments of the methods and computer architectures in the field of Data Analysis in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Although the origin of Earth's and other celestial bodies' magnetic fields remains unknown, we do know that the motion of electrically conducting fluids generates and maintains these fields, forming the basis of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and, to a larger extent, dynamo theory.

This book concentrates on some of the odd aspects of comets and asteroids.

Solar-terrestrial physics deals with phenomena in the region of space between the surface of the Sun and the upper atmosphere of the Earth, a region dominated by matter in a plasma state.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has operated continuously since 1990.

Die neuesten astronomischen Erkenntnisse über die Entstehung der Sterne und der Planeten sind atemberaubend.

The original work presented in this thesis constitutes an important contribution to modern Cosmic Ray (CR) physics, and comes during one of the most exciting periods of this field.