Astrophysics

Space weather has attracted a lot of attention in recent times. Severe space weather can disrupt spacecraft, and on Earth can be the cause of power outages and power station failure. It also presents a radiation hazard for airline passengers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639108583Author Towfiq AhmedFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 159g

This outstanding thesis by Dominic Bowman provides a thorough investigation of long-standing questions as to whether amplitude modulation is astrophysical, whether it offers insights into pulsating stars, and whether simple beating of modes with stable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027702128Author E.R. DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 580g

The symposium on 'Solar Gamma-, X- and EUV Radiation' was held at Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 11 June to 14 June 1974. It was sponsored jointly by the Inter- national Astronomical Union (IAU) and the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). The...

This book addresses three "hot" topics concerning the general problem of the origin of Galactic cosmic rays, namely (1) the acceleration, propagation, and radiation of particles in supernova remnants; (2) very high energy neutrinos from the...

This is an open access book. This book, the first edited collection of its kind, explores the recent emergence of philosophical research in astrophysics. It assembles a variety of original essays from scholars who are currently shaping this field, and it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732824591Author Stephen BlahaFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Pingree-Hill PublishingPublisher Pingree-Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788269358322Author Anteneh Biru TsegayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Hezon AcademyPublisher Hezon AcademyWeight(grams) 177g

This book collects together a selection of the best papers presented at the Third International Bioastronomy Symposium held in 1990. The subject is bioastronomy, the search for life in the universe, andthe book is devided according to the five main...

Presents an overview of recent research on the original of solar phenomena that affect Earth's technological systems.This topical issue is based on the presentations given at the 26th National Solar Observatory (NSO) Summer Workshop held at the National...

Cosmic rays consist of elementary particles with enormous energy which originate from outside our solar system and constantly hit the Earth's atmosphere. Where do these cosmic rays originate? How does nature accelerate the cosmic-ray particles to...

This volume tries to summarize the status of observational knowledge of the Kuiper Belt. Its recent discovery has revitalized the astromomical study of the Solar System and is beginning to open new and unexpected windows on the physics of planetesimal...

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...

The present 15th volume of the ISSI Space Science Series is devoted to Auroral Plasma Physics. The aurora is arguably the most intriguing phenomenon in space plasma physics. Not only is it the most spectacular manifestation of the Sun-Earth connection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734583427Author Stephen BlahaFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Pingree-Hill PublishingPublisher Pingree-Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 404g

This SpringerBrief details the MESSENGER Mission, the findings of which present challenges to widely held conventional views and remaining mysteries surrounding the planet. The work answers the question of why Mercury is so dense, and the implications...

In his PhD dissertation Martin Bo Nielsen performs observational studies of rotation in stars like the Sun. The interior rotation in stars is thought to be one of the driving mechanisms of stellar magnetic activity, but until now this mechanism was...

Cosmic rays consist of elementary particles with enormous energy which originate from outside our solar system and constantly hit the Earth's atmosphere. Where do these cosmic rays originate? How does nature accelerate the cosmic-ray particles to...

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions. William Shakespeare, King Lear A Few Words about What, Why and How The structure of the stars in general, and the Sun in particular, has been the subject of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489961648Author Mallorca International School Of PhysicsFormat PaperbackPage Count 333Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Publisher Springer-Verlag New...

This volume contains five articles describing the mission and its instruments. The first paper, by the project scientist Richard C. Elphic and his colleagues, describes the mission objectives, the launch vehicle, spacecraft and the mission itself. This...

This volume contains the lecture notes of ten courses given at the XIV Latin American School of Physics (XIV LASP) which took place in Caracas, Venezuela, from the 10th to the 28th of July 1972. The LASP is held each year in a different Latin American...

This book presents a collection of chapters, which address various contexts and challenges of the idea of human enhancement for the purposes of human space missions. The authors discuss pros and cons of mostly biological enhancement of human astronauts...

Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 64, Warsaw, Poland, September 5-8, 1973Book InformationISBN 9789027704368Author Cecile DeWitt-MoretteFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 760g

This thesis covers a diverse set of topics related to space-based gravitational wave detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The core of the thesis is devoted to the preprocessing of the interferometric link data for a LISA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466916791Author Phd Gail R DimitroffFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Originally published in 1955, this book contains the noted discussions of a conference on the co-ordination of galactic research, which was held near Groningen, Netherlands, in June 1953 by the International Astronomical Union. 'The report given in the...

The study of white dwarfs has been steadily growing during the last years and now is a mature field extending its influence over many others. Since white dwarfs are long lived objects, they can be used to obtain information about the history of the...

After several decades spent in astronomical semi-obscurity, the Moon has of late suddenly emerged as an object of considerable interest to students of astronomy as well as of other branches of natural science and technology; and the reasons for this are...

The central aim of the Sunrise project is to understand the structure and dynamics of the magnetic field in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic field is the source of solar activity, controls the space environment of the Earth and causes the variability...

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. Based on a series of lectures by world experts in this field held at CERN...

This textbook is designed to serve as a link between the basic disciplines of physics and the frontier topics within high energy astrophysics, aiming at a level of difficulty congruent with that of other physics topics studied at undergraduate level...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434434685Author V R EshlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 141g

Describes the branch of astronomy in which processes in the universe are investigated with experimental methods employed in particle-physics experiments. After a historical introduction the basics of elementary particles, Explains particle interactions...

Understanding star formation is one of the key fields in present-day astrophysics. This book treats a wide variety of the physical processes involved, as well as the main observational discoveries, with key points being discussed in detail. The current...

This course-tested textbook conveys the fundamentals of magnetic fields and relativistic plasma in diffuse cosmic media, with a primary focus on phenomena that have been observed at different wavelengths. Theoretical concepts are addressed wherever...

Half a century ago, S. Chandrasekhar wrote these words in the preface to his 1 celebrated and successful book: In this monograph an attempt has been made to present the theory of stellar dy namics as a branch of classical dynamics - a discipline in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782959169342Author Halim AshkarFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Halim AshkarPublisher Halim AshkarWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543706505Author Krishnagopal DharaniFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Partridge Publishing IndiaPublisher Partridge Publishing IndiaWeight(grams) 966g