Astrophysics

John Dyson has contributed to the study of the hydrodynamic processes that govern a wide variety of astrophysical sources which he has helped explain.

Spacecraft such as the Pioneer, Vela, and Voyager have explored the interplanetary medium between the orbits of Mercury and Pluto.

In most circumstances atmospheric pressure is closely approximated by the hydrostatic pressure caused by the weight of air above the measurement point.

Neutrinos are the central thread in the study of many aspects of particle physics and astrophysics.

The history of astronomy is, like most history, a multidimensional story, and when writing about a specific period, the author has to decide how to handle all the developments of earlier times in order to set the scene.

Can we detect the moons of extrasolar planets?

This exhaustive work sheds new light on unsolved questions in gamma-ray astrophysics.

Neutron stars play a unique role in physics and astrophysics.

A variety of plasmas include molecules rather than only ions or atoms.

Cryogenic engineering (cryogenics) is the production, preservation, and use or application of cold.

of the approximation at hand will be outlined from the viewpoint of physics rather than of many possible astronomical applications.

These three lectures cover a certain aspect of complexity and black holes, namely the relation to the second law of thermodynamics.

This authoritative text guides graduate students and researchers through the key physical processes governing stars and stellar systems.

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Active Galactic Nuclei This AGN textbook gives an overview on the current knowledge of the Active Galacitc Nuclei phenomenon.

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This book, suitable for interested post-16 school pupils or undergraduates looking for a supplement to their course text, develops our modern view of space-time and its implications in the theories of gravity and cosmology.

Since the dawn of mankind, observers of the sky have wondered at the sudden appearance of new stars on the seemingly unchanging heavens and, for at least 2000 years, have recorded these phenomena in their annals and archives.

High Temperature Gas Dynamics is a class-tested primer for students, scientists and engineers who would like to have a basic understanding of the physics and the behaviour of high-temperature gases.

The success of any space flight mission depends not only on advanced technology but also on the health and well-being of crew members.

Axions are peculiar hypothetical particles that could both solve the CP problem of quantum chromodynamics and at the same time account for the dark matter of the universe.

Prominences are amazing objects of great beauty whose formation, basic structure and eruption represent one of the basic unsolved problems in Solar Physics.

The papers in this volume present a recent survey of important results in the field of supernovae and pulsars.

This book, written by researchers who had been professionals in accelerator physics before becoming leaders of groups in astroparticle physics, introduces both fields in a balanced and elementary way, requiring only a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics on the part of the reader.

Over the last decade, statisticians have developed new statistical tools in the field of spatial point processes.

This book will show how it is possible to explore the Universe not only with telescopes but also with Mathematics.

Recent advances in the development of lasers with more energy, power, and brightness have opened up new possibilities for exciting applications.

The prospectus of humans living, working, and establishing communities in space can no longer be dismissed as the romantic notions of science fiction writers and space buffs.

This book presents the basics of gravitational lensing, accessible to students and researchers with a wide range of backgrounds.

Fourteen years is a long time, and especially in the field of cosmology new observational results and new theoretical ideas seem to appear at a steadily increasing rate.

The Star and the Whole: Gian-Carlo Rota on Mathematics and Phenomenology, authored by Fabrizio Palombi, is the first book to study Rota's philosophical reflection.

Over the past few years we have seen remarkable, and at times independent advances in the understanding of extended objects like strings, black holes and membranes at the 'microscopic' level.

The book begins with a historical introduction, "e;Star Formation: The Early History"e;, that presents new material of interest for students and historians of science.

This thesis develops and establishes several methods to determine the detailed geometric architecture of transiting exoplanetary systems (planets orbiting around, and periodically passing in front of, stars other than the sun) using high-precision photometric data collected by the Kepler space telescope.

Dieses Lehrbuch ist ein Grundkurs im besten Sinne: Beginnend mit den physikalischen und technischen Grundlagen, die fur das Verstandnis der weiteren astrophysikalischen Ausfuhrungen benotigt werden, vermittelt es solides Wissen fur die moderne Astrophysik, ist klar geschrieben, reich bebildert und auch in den mathematischen Teilen jederzeit verstandlich.

Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is a state of matter predicted by the theory of strong interactions - Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).

An updated version of the popular graduate text on accretion in astrophysics.

A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang-and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universeScientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.

An astrophysicist chronicles his quest to photograph a black hole and reflects on its spiritual ramifications in this international-bestselling memoir.

Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined.

Providing a broad overview of foundational concepts, this second edition of Fundamentals of Astronomy covers topics ranging from spherical astronomy to reference systems, and celestial mechanics to astronomical photometry and spectroscopy.

Systems thinking/analysis is widely applied for solving complex problems in engineering and certain other fields.

A comprehensive overview of theoretical and observational understanding of the interstellar medium of galaxies.