Astrophysics category: 1588 books
Physics of Collisionless Shocks
Space Plasma Shock Waves
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The present book provides a contemporary systematic treatment of shock waves in high-temperature collisionless plasmas as are encountered in near Earth space and in Astrophysics. It consists of two parts. Part I develops the complete theory of shocks in dilute hot plasmas under the assumption of absence...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
This official NASA internal document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - is a comprehensive evaluation of the operational and engineering aspects of the first manned visit to the Skylab space station and includes the performance of experiment hardware that is under Johnson...
by John L. Friedman, Nikolaos Stergioulas
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The masses of neutron stars are limited by an instability to gravitational collapse and an instability driven by gravitational waves limits their spin. Their oscillations are relevant to x-ray observations of accreting binaries and to gravitational wave observations of neutron stars formed during...
Astrochemistry
From the Big Bang to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The rapidly growing field of astrochemistry focuses on the chemistry occurring in stars, planets, and the interstellar medium, bringing together elements of chemistry, physics, astrophysics, and biology. Astrochemistry describes the chemical history of the Universe, our solar system, and our planet....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Nanodust and nanometer-sized structures are important components of many objects in space. Nanodust is observed in evolved stars, young stellar objects, protoplanetary disks, and dust debris disks. Within the solar system, nanodust is observed with in-situ experiments from spacecraft. Nanometer-sized...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This edited volume presents the current state of gas accretion studies from both observational and theoretical perspectives, and charts our progress towards answering the fundamental yet elusive question of how galaxies get their gas. Understanding how galaxies form and evolve has been a central focus...
by David Branch, J. Craig Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Targeting advanced students of astronomy and physics, as well as astronomers and physicists contemplating research on supernovae or related fields, David Branch and J. Craig Wheeler offer a modern account of the nature, causes and consequences of supernovae, as well as of issues that remain to be...
Origin and Evolution of Comets
Ten Years after the Nice Model and One Year after Rosetta
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Since several decades, comets have been considered as key witnesses of solar system formation. Their nature has been explored using the modern arsenal of Earth- and space-based observations, and they hold a central place as dynamical arbiters of the planetary system in the new paradigm of solar system...
by Oliver James Pike
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This thesis makes two important contributions to plasma physics. The first is the extension of the seminal theoretical works of Spitzer and Braginskii, which describe the basics of particle interactions in plasma, to relativistic systems. Relativistic plasmas have long been studied in high-energy...
Cosmic Rays in Star-Forming Environments
Proceedings of the Second Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
These are the proceedings of the Sant Cugat Forum 2nd Workshop on Cosmic-ray Induced Phenomenology in Stellar Environments, held April 16-19, 2012. The aim of this Workshop was to address the current knowledge and challenges of high-energy emission from stellar environments at all scales and provide...
An Overview of Gravitational Waves
Theory, Sources and Detection
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book describes detection techniques used to search for and analyze gravitational waves (GW). It covers the whole domain of GW science, starting from the theory and ending with the experimental techniques (both present and future) used to detect them.
The theoretical sections of the book...
Studying Distant Galaxies
A Handbook of Methods and Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Distant galaxies encapsulate the various stages of galaxy evolution and formation from over 95% of the development of the universe. As early as twenty-five years ago, little was known about them, however since the first systematic survey was completed in the 1990s, increasing amounts of resources...
Astronomy Methods
A Physical Approach to Astronomical Observations
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
Astronomy Methods, first published in 2003, is an introduction to the basic practical tools, methods and phenomena that underlie quantitative astronomy. Taking a technical approach, the author covers a rich diversity of topics across all branches of astronomy, from radio to gamma-ray wavelengths....
One Hundred Years of General Relativity
From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity(Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development,...