Astrophysics category: 1588 books
by Kenneth R. Lang
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Essential Astrophysics is a book to learn or teach from, as well as a fundamental reference volume for anyone interested in astronomy and astrophysics. It presents astrophysics from basic principles without requiring any previous study of astronomy or astrophysics. It serves as a comprehensive introductory...
by Arnab Rai Choudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Designed for teaching astrophysics to physics students at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level, this textbook also provides an overview of astrophysics for astrophysics graduate students, before they delve into more specialized volumes. Assuming background knowledge at the level of a...
by Yasumichi Aoki, Kiyoshi Hayasaka, Toru Iijima;Toshihide Maskawa;Masaharu Tanabashi;Koichi Yamawaki
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI) was founded at Nagoya University in 2010 under the directorship of T Maskawa, in celebration of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for M Kobayashi and T Maskawa, both who are alumni of Nagoya University. In commemoration...
The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Relativistic Field Theories(In 3 Volumes)
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
The Marcel Grossmann Meetings seek to further the development of the foundations and applications of Einstein's general relativity by promoting theoretical understanding in the relevant fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics and to direct future technological, observational, and...
by Gary P. Zank
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
“Transport Processes in Space Physics and Astrophysics” is aimed at graduate level students to provide the necessary mathematical and physics background to understand the transport of gases, charged particle gases, energetic charged particles, turbulence, and radiation in an astrophysical...
Astrophysics and Cosmology
Proceedings of the 26th Solvay Conference on Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Ever since 1911, the Solvay Conferences have shaped modern physics. The format is quite different from other conferences as the emphasis is placed on discussion. The 26th edition held in October 2014 in Brussels and chaired by Roger Blandford continued this tradition and addressed some of the most...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
This NASA Goddard Space Flight Center report provides a comprehensive overview of major astrophysics science missions. Contents include:
2011 Events * Awards * New Faces in ASD * Research Highlights * Resolving and Characterizing the Massive Winds of Eta Carinae * Testing Models of Triggered...
Gravitation, Astrophysics, and Cosmology
Proceedings of the Twelfth Asia-Pacific International Conference
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The ICGAC-12 aimed to serve as a common platform around the Asia-Pacific region for the exchange and communication among all researchers in the fields of gravitation, astrophysics and cosmology. The scope covered in the conference includes dark matter, dark energy, experimental study of gravity, black...
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Proceedings of the Third Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This book offers review chapters written by invited speakers of the 3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics - Gravitational Waves Astrophysics. All chapters have been peer reviewed. The book goes beyond normal conference proceedings in that it provides a wide panorama of the astrophysics of gravitational waves and serves as a reference work for researchers in the field.
Probes of Multimessenger Astrophysics
Charged cosmic rays, neutrinos, γ-rays and gravitational waves
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
"I have taught from and enjoyed the first edition of the book. The selection of topics is the best I've seen. Maurizio Spurio gives very clear presentations using a generous amount of observational data. "
James Matthews (Louisiana State University)
This is the second edition...
by James Binney
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Astrophysics is the physics of the stars, and more widely the physics of the Universe. It enables us to understand the structure and evolution of planetary systems, stars, galaxies, interstellar gas, and the cosmos as a whole. In this Very Short Introduction, the leading astrophysicist James Binney...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
*Includes 19 pictures of stars, galaxies, and other phenomena across the Universe.*Includes a Table of Contents. My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. - Stephen HawkingFrom the dawn of time, man has sought to understand the Universe...
Astrophysics through Computation
With Mathematica® Support
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This new text surveys a series of fundamental problems in astrophysics, both analytically and computationally, for advanced students in physics and astrophysics. The contents are supported by more than 110 class-tested Mathematica® notebooks, allowing rigorous solutions to be explored in a visually...
by Malcolm S. Longair
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Providing students with an in-depth account of the astrophysics of high energy phenomena in the Universe, the third edition of this well-established textbook is ideal for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses in high energy astrophysics. Building on the concepts and techniques taught...