Astrophysics category: 1588 books
Dynamics of Young Star Clusters and Associations
Saas-Fee Advanced Course 42. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Where do most stars (and the planetary systems that surround them) in the Milky Way form? What determines whether a young star cluster remains bound (such as an open or globular cluster), or disperses to join the field stars in the disc of the Galaxy? These questions not only impact understanding...
by James Lequeux
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
It has been known for a long time that stars are similar to our Sun. But it was only in 1810 that they were shown to be made of an incandescent gas. The chemical composition of this gas began to be determined in 1860. In 1940, it was demonstrated that the energy radiated by the stars is of thermonuclear...
by Sébastien Galtier
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Ninety-nine percent of ordinary matter in the Universe is in the form of ionized fluids, or plasmas. The study of the magnetic properties of such electrically conducting fluids, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), has become a central theory in astrophysics, as well as in areas such as engineering and geophysics....
by Rosa Poggiani
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This textbook presents ultraviolet and X-ray astronomy, gamma-ray astronomy, cosmic ray astronomy, neutrino astronomy, and gravitational wave astronomy as distinct research areas, focusing on the astrophysics targets and the requirements with respect to instrumentation and observation methods.
The...
The Earth as a Distant Planet
A Rosetta Stone for the Search of Earth-Like Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
In The Earth as a Distant Planet, the authors become external observers of our solar system from a distance and try to determine how one can understand how Earth, the third in distance to the central star, is essentially unique and capable of sustaining life. The knowledge gained from this original perspective...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Heliophysics is a developing scientific discipline integrating studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and climatic environments. Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an...
by Yoshiaki Sofue
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This book is a concise primer on galactic radio astronomy for undergraduate and graduate students, and provides wide coverage of galactic astronomy and astrophysics such as the physics of interstellar matter and the dynamics and structure of the Milky Way Galaxy and galaxies. Radio astronomy and its...
Fundamental Questions of Practical Cosmology
Exploring the Realm of Galaxies
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
This book guides readers (astronomers, physicists, and university students) through central questions of Practical Cosmology, a term used by the late Allan Sandage to denote the modern scientific endeavor to find the cosmological model best describing the universe of galaxies, its geometry, size,...
Everything about Gravity
Proceedings of the Second LeCosPA International Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
The proceedings of the 2nd LeCosPA International Symposium, "Everything about Gravity", collects 78 papers contributed by the symposium's Plenary Session and Parallel Session speakers. Organizers of the Parallel Sessions have in addition prepared summaries for their own sessions. The topics...
by Jaroslav Haas
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
In this PhD thesis, which was nominated for publication in this series by the Astronomical Institute at Charles University, Prague, the author investigates the orbital evolution of an initially thin stellar disc around a supermassive black hole, considering various perturbative sources of gravity....
The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys
A Meeting to Honour the 70th Birthday of Massimo Capaccioli
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
These are the proceedings of a meeting in honour of Massimo Capaccioli at the occasion of his 70th birthday. The conference aimed at summarizing the results from the main current and past digital sky survey projects and at discussing how these can be used to inspire ongoing projects and better plan...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This volume presents the latest research results on solar prominences, including new developments on e.g. chirality, fine structure, magnetism, diagnostic tools and relevant solar plasma physics.
In 1875 solar prominences, as seen out of the solar limb, were described by P.A. Secchi in his...
by Kaspar von Braun, Tabetha Boyajian
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book explores the relations between physical parameters of extrasolar planets and their respective parent stars. Planetary parameters are often directly dependent upon their stellar counterparts. In addition, the star is almost always the only visible component of the system and contains most...
Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds
IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book presents the proceedings of the IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences entitled "Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds". The school addressed the topics at the forefront of scientific research being conducted in...