Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
Particles and Astrophysics
A Multi-Messenger Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
This book is an introduction to “multi-messenger” astrophysics. It covers the many different aspects connecting particle physics with astrophysics and cosmology and introduces astrophysics using numerous experimental findings recently obtained through the study of high-energy particles.
Taking...
General Relativity 3: Astrophysics with Tensor Calculus
Advanced Topics
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
All of modern astrophysics and cosmology stands on the foundation of General Relativity that is best expressed in tensors.
This book, and its sequel, General Relativity 4: Astrophysics & Cosmology, present the clearest, most comprehensible, and most complete introduction to the tensor...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
This official NASA document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - is a reproduction of the actual Mir Space Station astronaut training manual used during the Mir-Shuttle program. Contents include:
HISTORY OF MIR COMPLEX * PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES * INTRODUCTION * SALYUT...
by Leonard S Kisslinger
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The aim of this book is to teach undergraduate college or university students the basic physics concepts needed to understand the mathematics which describes the evolution of the universe, and based on this to teach the astrophysical theories behind evolution from very early times to the present....
Find a Hotter Place!
A History of Nuclear Astrophysics
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2006
Find a hotter place! is the insightful story of the tortured path that led to our current understanding of how the elements in the Universe came to be. This is a story which began in Greek Antiquity, with the first musings on the nature of matter and the void, and continues today with ever more refined...
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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...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
The detection of radial and non-radial solar-like oscillations in thousands of G-K giants with CoRoT and Kepler is paving the road for detailed studies of stellar populations in the Galaxy. The available average seismic constraints allow largely model-independent determination of stellar radii and...
by Arnold Hanslmeier
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
The search for exoplanets and habitable objects in general is one of the fastest growing and most prominent fields in modern astrophysics. This book provides an overview on habitability on exoplanets. Habitability is strongly dependent on stellar activity. Therefore, space weather effects on objects...
by Gustavo E. Romero, Gabriela S. Vila
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This book is based on the lecture notes of a one-semester course on black hole astrophysics given by the author and is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in astrophysics.
The material included goes beyond that found in classic textbooks and presents details...
Beyond the Galaxy
How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way and Discovered the Entire Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
A look up at the night sky reveals a treasury of wonders. Even to the naked eye, the Moon, stars, planets, the Milky Way and even a few star clusters and nebulae illuminate the heavens. For millennia, humans struggled to make sense of what's out there in the Universe, from all we can see to that which...
Magnetic Reconnection
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This book provides an overview of recent research highlights in the main areas of application of magnetic reconnection (MR), including planetary, solar and magnetospheric physics and astrophysics. It describes how research on magnetic reconnection, especially concerning the Earth's magnetosphere,...
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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...
Lectures on Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Proceedings of the Third IDPASC School, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, January 21 -- February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
This volume gathers the content of the courses held at the Third IDPASC School, which took place in San Martiño Pinario, Hospederia and Seminario Maior, in the city of Santiago de Compostela, Galiza, Spain, from January 21st to February 2nd, 2013. This school is the annual joint program of the International...
Astrophysics of Black Holes
From Fundamental Aspects to Latest Developments
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This book discusses the state of the art of the basic theoretical and observational topics related to black hole astrophysics. It covers all the main topics in this wide field, from the theory of accretion disks and formation mechanisms of jet and outflows, to their observed electromagnetic spectrum,...