Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
by Rosa Poggiani
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This textbook presents ultraviolet and X-ray astronomy, gamma-ray astronomy, cosmic ray astronomy, neutrino astronomy, and gravitational wave astronomy as distinct research areas, focusing on the astrophysics targets and the requirements with respect to instrumentation and observation methods.
The...
New Eyes on the Sun
A Guide to Satellite Images and Amateur Observation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Information collected by satellites recently sent by the USA, the European Space Agency, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Russia to monitor the Sun has changed our knowledge and understanding of the Sun, particularly its effect on Earth. This book presents these findings in a way that will...
Living and Working in Space
The NASA History of Skylab
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The official record of America's first space station, this book from the NASA History Series chronicles the Skylab program from its planning during the 1960s through its 1973 launch and 1979 conclusion. Definitive accounts examine the project's achievements as well as its use of discoveries and technology developed during the Apollo program. 1983 edition.
The Earth as a Distant Planet
A Rosetta Stone for the Search of Earth-Like Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
In The Earth as a Distant Planet, the authors become external observers of our solar system from a distance and try to determine how one can understand how Earth, the third in distance to the central star, is essentially unique and capable of sustaining life. The knowledge gained from this original perspective...
First-stage LISA Data Processing and Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
Ultraprecise Inter-satellite Laser Ranging, Clock Synchronization and Novel Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
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 constellation, specifically developing optimal Kalman...
by Yoshiaki Sofue
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This book is a concise primer on galactic radio astronomy for undergraduate and graduate students, and provides wide coverage of galactic astronomy and astrophysics such as the physics of interstellar matter and the dynamics and structure of the Milky Way Galaxy and galaxies. Radio astronomy and its...
Everything about Gravity
Proceedings of the Second LeCosPA International Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
The proceedings of the 2nd LeCosPA International Symposium, "Everything about Gravity", collects 78 papers contributed by the symposium's Plenary Session and Parallel Session speakers. Organizers of the Parallel Sessions have in addition prepared summaries for their own sessions. The topics...
by Jaroslav Haas
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
In this PhD thesis, which was nominated for publication in this series by the Astronomical Institute at Charles University, Prague, the author investigates the orbital evolution of an initially thin stellar disc around a supermassive black hole, considering various perturbative sources of gravity....
by Kaspar von Braun, Tabetha Boyajian
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book explores the relations between physical parameters of extrasolar planets and their respective parent stars. Planetary parameters are often directly dependent upon their stellar counterparts. In addition, the star is almost always the only visible component of the system and contains most...
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...
by Margarita Ryutova
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
This book is the first account of the physics of magnetic flux tubes from their fundamental properties to collective phenomena in an ensembles of flux tubes. The physics of magnetic flux tubes is absolutely vital for understanding fundamental physical processes in the solar atmosphere shaped and governed...
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...
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...