Astrophysics category: 1588 books
Tidal Streams in the Local Group and Beyond
Observations and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This volume is written by leading scientists in the field, who review the current state of our knowledge of tidal streams in the Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy, and in other nearby galaxies. The cosmological origins of dwarf galaxies and the physical processes by which they are tidally disrupted...
by Ivan I. Shevchenko
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This book deals with an effect in celestial mechanics that has become quite important in exoplanet research. The Lidov-Kozai effect reveals itself in coherent periodic variations (which can be very large) of the inclination and eccentricity of an orbiting body in the presence of an inclined perturber....
Spectroscopy for Amateur Astronomers
Recording, Processing, Analysis and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This accessible guide presents the astrophysical concepts behind astronomical spectroscopy, covering both the theory and the practical elements of recording, processing, analysing and interpreting your spectra. It covers astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, nebulae, novae, supernovae, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate on the Earth and other planets...
We are the Martians
Connecting Cosmology with Biology
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
For many thousands of years, human beings have been asking themselves whether they are more frightened of being alone in the universe or of the thought that there is someone else out there. Over the past few decades, however, we have moved from imagination to action, exploring the cosmos using new...
Star Formation in Galaxy Evolution: Connecting Numerical Models to Reality
Saas-Fee Advanced Course 43. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This book contains the elaborated and updated versions of the 24 lectures given at the 43rd Saas-Fee Advanced Course. Written by four eminent scientists in the field, the book reviews the physical processes related to star formation, starting from cosmological down to galactic scales. It presents...
by Patrick H. Diamond, Sanae-I. Itoh, Kimitaka Itoh
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
This three-volume series presents the ideas, models and approaches essential to understanding plasma dynamics and self-organization for researchers and graduate students in plasma physics, controlled fusion and related fields such as plasma astrophysics. Volume I develops the physical kinetics of...
by Yasuhito Narita
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Dynamics of astrophysical systems is often described by plasma physics, yet understanding the nature of plasma turbulence remains as a challenge in physics in both theories and experiments. This book is an up-to-date summary and review of recent results in research on waves and turbulence in near-Earth...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Based on graduate school lectures in contemporary relativity and gravitational physics, this book gives a complete and unified picture of the present status of theoretical and observational properties of astrophysical black holes. The chapters are written by internationally recognized specialists....
by Cosimo Bambi
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This textbook introduces the current astrophysical observations of black holes, and discusses the leading techniques to study the strong gravity region around these objects with electromagnetic radiation. More importantly, it provides the basic tools for writing an astrophysical code and testing the...
by Wolfram Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
In this "SpringerBrief" the author considers the underlying problems and questions that are common to numerical models of turbulence in different astrophysical systems.
Turbulence has emerged as an important research topic in several areas of astrophysics. Understanding and modeling...
by Rudolf Kippenhahn, Alfred Weigert, Achim Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
This long-awaited second edition of the classical textbook on Stellar Structure and Evolution by Kippenhahn and Weigert is a thoroughly revised version of the original text. Taking into account modern observational constraints as well as additional physical effects such as mass loss and diffusion,...
by Joshua S. Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest--and, until recently, among the least understood--cosmic events in the universe. Discovered by chance during the cold war, these evanescent high-energy explosions confounded astronomers for decades. But a rapid series of startling breakthroughs beginning in 1997...
Unified Field Mechanics
Natural Science Beyond the Veil of SpacetimeProceedings of the IX Symposium Honoring Noted French Mathematical Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Unified Field Mechanics, the topic of the 9th international symposium honoring noted French mathematical physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier cannot be considered highly speculative as a myopic critic might surmise. The 8th Vigier Symposium proceedings "The Physics of Reality" should in fact be...