Astrophysics

This textbook provides a comprehensive review of Newtonian dynamics at a level suitable for undergraduate physics students.

An essential overview of the physical and mathematical background of radiative transfer, and its applications to stellar and planetary atmospheres.

The concepts of dark matter and the cosmic web are some of the most significant developments in cosmology in the past century.

This book is an attempt to demystify the activities of a celestial object such as the Sun appealing to basic physics already available to high school students.

Astronomy is the field of science devoted to the study of astronomical objects, such as stars, galaxies, and nebulae.

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

Studies of Nearby Galaxies are currently the focus of many observations and numerical simulations.

The search for life in the universe is one of the most challenging topics of science.

When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age.

The Poetry of Physics explores the intersection of science and art, blending the intricate beauty of physics with the evocative power of poetry.

Dark matter research is one of the most fascinating and active fields among current high-profile scientific endeavours.

The Fourth HEIDELBERG International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, DARK2002, was held in Cape Town, South Africa, in the period 4-9 February 2002.

This volume comprises lectures delivered at the First Equatorial School of Relativistic Astrophysics.

This thesis makes two important contributions to plasma physics.

This lavishly illustrated text, by two leading experts, presents all the current evidence for black holes and their cosmic context.

Mass human migrations into outer space may begin this century!

The fundamental and very important property of inertia has never been well understood.

Space debris and asteroid impacts pose a very real, very near-term threat to Earth.

A graduate-level textbook on the astrophysics of binary star systems and their evolutionPhysics of Binary Star Evolution is an up-to-date textbook on the astrophysics and evolution of binary star systems.

Memory is perhaps the most extraordinary phenomenon in the natural world.

Foundations of data organization is a relatively new field of research in comparison to, other branches of science.

Understanding the largest physical structures in the universe is essential for the comprehension of the cosmos as a whole.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development of the theory of scale relativity and fractal space-time.

Fundamental Astronomy gives a well-balanced and comprehensive introduction to the topics of classical and modern astronomy.

In the late 20th and beginning 21st century high-precision astronomy, positioning and metrology strongly rely on general relativity.

Connections developed in recent years between particlephysics and cosmologyare the focus of attention in this newtextbook.

Dieses Buch bietet eine anschauliche und reich bebilderte Übersicht zur Vielfalt kosmischer Turbulenz- und Selbstorganisationsszenarien und ermöglicht umfassende Einblicke in die dabei in ganz unterschiedlichen Zusammenhängen ablaufenden Vorgänge und zugrundeliegenden theoretischen Konzepte.

The widespread tendency in solar physics to divide the solar atmosphere into separate layers and to distinguish phenomena of solar activity from phenomena of the quiet Sun emphasizes the wide ranging diversity of physical conditions and events occurring in the solar atmosphere.

A unique book explaining Einstein''s special theory of relativity through diagrams rather than equations, for physics students and non-science majors.

A quantitative measure of the accuracy of the rate coefficients and the excess energies is a desirable goal of this analysis.

One of the most fundamental discoveries of the solar system was the detection of four moons in orbit around Jupiter by Galileo Galilei in 1610.

Radio astronomy is irreversibly moving towards the exabyte era.

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

This book presents the essential characteristics of the different satellite motions.

This volume contains the reviews and poster papers presented at the workshop Solar Convection and Oscillations and their Relationship: SCORe '96, held in Arhus, Denmark, May 27 - 31, 1996.

This book is a direct sequel to: B.

These are the proceedings of a meeting celebrating Michael Thompson's seminal work on solar and stellar physics, as well as his major contributions to the development of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

This review volume is motivated by the recent discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube.

Galaxies are perhaps the most popular of all visual targets that are sought after by visual observers.

This review volume is motivated by the recent discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube.

This book surveys statistical and perturbation methods for the solution of the general three body problem.

Numerical Methods in Astrophysics: An Introduction outlines various fundamental numerical methods that can solve gravitational dynamics, hydrodynamics, and radiation transport equations.

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