Astrophysics

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

On August 2000 in the Lomonosov Moscow State University the first scientific conference dedicated to chaos in the real astronomical systems was held. The most prominent astrophysisists - specialist in the field of stochastic dynamics - attended the...

This prize-winning Ph.D. thesis by Chris Harrison adopts a multi-faceted approach to address the lack of decisive observational evidence, utilising large observational data sets from several world-leading telescopes. Developing several novel...

Quantum Plasmadynamics is a synthesis of the kinetic theory of plasmas and quantum electrodynamics (QED). In this volume, the approach applied to unmagnetized plasmas in volume 1 is generalized to magnetized plasmas. First, a covariant version of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412015356Author Bill G.P.H. BashFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 505g

This volume covers different aspects of recent theoretical and observational work on magnetic reconnection, a fundamental plasma-physical process by which energy stored in magnetic field is converted, often explosively, into heat and kinetic energy. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938842474Author Hector EstepanFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Bardolf & CompanyPublisher Bardolf & CompanyWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639068887Author Nikolai ShaposhnikovFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887032016Author Wayne TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Litprime SolutionsPublisher Litprime SolutionsWeight(grams) 82g

This thesis describes the application of a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code to accretion disc winds in two types of systems spanning 9 orders of magnitude in mass and size. In both cases, the results provide important new insights. On small scales,...

An almost complete collection of the papers given at the International Workshop on Imaging in High Energy Astronomy (Anacapri, Italy, 1994). These proceedings, which concentrate on imaging above 10 keV, represent the state of the art in the field,...

This book presents a collection of focused review papers on the advances in topics in modern astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and planetary science. The chapters are written by expert members of an EU-funded ERASMUS+ program of strategic partnership...

This thesis presents a pioneering method for gleaning the maximum information from the deepest images of the far-infrared universe obtained with the Herschel satellite, reaching galaxies fainter by an order of magnitude than in previous studies. Using...

This volume is dedicated to the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which was launched 11 February 2010. The articles focus on the spacecraft and its instruments: the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE),...

Prominences are amazing objects of great beauty whose formation, basic structure and eruption represent one of the basic unsolved problems in Solar Physics. It is now 14 years since the last book on prominences appeared (Tandberg-Hanssen, 1974), during...

With the advent of space observatories and modern developments in ground based astronomy and concurrent progress in the theoretical understanding of these observations it has become clear that accretion of material on to compact objects is an ubiquitous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783731501992Author Michael BetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Karlsruher Institut Fur TechnologiePublisher Karlsruher Institut Fur...

The book's principal aim is to clarify fundamental concepts, decipher mathematical structures used to model space-time and relativistic worlds, and to disclose their physical meaning. After each chapter, philosophical implications of the presented...

The original plans for a meeting to celebrate the second centenary of the As tronomical Observatory of Palermo were for a celebration with a double character. The gathering was to have both a historical character, appropriate for a bicenten nial, and a...

The geomagnetic field observed on the surface of the earth has been an important source of information on the dynamic behavior of the magnetosphere. Because the* magnetosphere and its environment are filled with plasma in which electric current can...