Astrophysics

Streamlining the extensive information from the original, highly acclaimed monograph, this new An Introduction to the Physics of Interstellar Dust provides a concise reference and overview of interstellar dust and the interstellar medium.

This introduction to compact star physics explains key concepts from general relativity, thermodynamics and nuclear physics.

Professor Eric Forbes left behind at his death an important collection of the letters of John Flamsteed (1646-1719), First Astronomer Royal.

Machine Learning for Planetary Science presents planetary scientists with a way to introduce machine learning into the research workflow as increasingly large nonlinear datasets are acquired from planetary exploration missions.

This essential book is the first comprehensive exposition in the area of optimal low-thrust orbit transfer using non-singular variables.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts.

The goal of the Daniel Chalonge School on Astrofundamental Physics is to contribute to a theory of the universe (and particularly of the early universe) up to the marks, and at the scientific height of, the unprecedented accuracy, existent and expected, in the observational data.

This book focuses on nonextensive statistical mechanics, a current generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) statistical mechanics.

This book is aimed at theoretical and mathematical physicists and mathematicians interested in modern gravitational physics.

This book highlights selected topics of standard and modern theory of accretion onto black holes and magnetized neutron stars.

This book introduces ten equations that transcend the boundaries of time and space.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts, which has appeared in semi-annual volumes since 1969, is de- voted to the recording, summarizing and indexing of astronomical publications throughout the world.

Magnetic energy release plays an important role in a wide variety of cosmic objects such as the Sun, stellar coronae, stellar and galactic accretion disks and pulsars.

Solar Physics publishes up to two Topical Issues per year that focus on areas of especially vigorous and active research.

This book contains review articles of most of the topics addressed at the conf- ence on Simulations of Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in astrophysics: recent achievements and perspectives which took place from July 2 to 6, 2001 at the Institut Henri Poincar'e in Paris.

Fred Hoyle was one of the most widely acclaimed and colourful scientists of the twentieth century, a down-to-earth Yorkshireman who combined a brilliant scientific mind with a relish for communication and controversy.

This thesis develops the dispersive optical model into a tool that allows for the assessment of the validity of nuclear reaction models, thereby generating unambiguous removal probabilities of nucleons from valence orbits using the electron-induced proton knockout reaction.

Die Sternbilder und die damit verbundenen Mythen helfen, sich am Sternenhimmel zurechtzufinden, und vermitteln die Vielfalt der Bilder der Mythologie und der Sternsagen.

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.

Every year large numbers of people take up the study of astronomy, mostly at amateur level.

This book describes the fundamentals of particle detectors as well as their applications.

Planetary nebulae are a keystone for the understanding of the evolution of stars, for deep insights into the physical processes prevailing in highly excited dilute nebulae, and for the chemical evolution in galaxies.

An advanced textbook covering essential and advanced topics in plasma physics relevant to many disciplines.

This thesis describes the application of a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code to accretion disc winds in two types of systems spanning 9 orders of magnitude in mass and size.

The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA).

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Ein Universalinstrument für lichtelektrische Helligkeitsmessungen an Himmelsobjekten" verfügbar.

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

Turbulence and magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe.

This book provides extended versions of the talks given at the memorial Pomeranchuk-100 Conference, June 5-6, held in the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia and the review of the 2013 Pomeranchuk Prize Winner - Mikhail Shifman.

Presents state-of-the-art sparse and multiscale image and signal processing with applications in astronomy, biology, MRI, media, and forensics.

The Sunday Times BestsellerIn Wonders of the Solar System - the book of the acclaimed BBC TV series - Professor Brian Cox will take us on a journey of discovery where alien worlds from your imagination become places we can see, feel and visit.

The authors have put forth great efforts in gathering present day knowledge about different objects within our solar system and universe.

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.

Ground- or space-based telescopes are becoming increasingly more complex and construction budgets are typically in the billion dollar range.

The purpose and motivation of these lectures can be summarized in the following two questions: * What is the ground state (and its properties) of dense matter?

Charge-coupled Devices (CCDs) have revolutionised astronomy.

This thesis provides new insights into the seemingly anomalous ubiquity of lithium-rich red giant stars.

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.

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This Festschrift dedicated to the 60th birth anniversary of Prof.

These are the proceedings of international conference on Numerical As- trophysics 1998 (NAP98), held at National Olympic Memorial Youth Cen- ter, in Tokyo, Japan in the period of March 10 - 13, 1998, and hosted by the National Astronomical Observatory, Japan (NAOJ).

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy.

The announcement in 2012 that the Higgs boson had been discovered was understood as a watershed moment for the Standard Model of particle physics.

'This book is recommended to those interested in knowing how TeV astronomy began, evolved, and remains a growth area.

Supernovae, hypernovae and gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic explosions in the universe.

The book presents very recent advances in understanding dark matter, dark energy effects, orbital dynamics of exoplanets around binary stars in non-planar configurations, the orbital dynamics of a moon in the star-planet systems, the orbital dynamics of interstellar interlopers around binary stars, the mechanisms of stellar flares, parameters of white dwarfs atmospheres.