Authors:Jan van Paradijs, Johan A.M. Bleeker,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: astrophysics, amsterdam, eadn, lecture, notes, physics, network, european, lectures, spectroscopy, school, organized, ray, doctoral
Number of Pages: 530
Published: 1999-03-19
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3540655484
ISBN-13: 9783540655480

This volume contains a comprehensive treatment of X-ray spectroscopy, as applied in astrophysics. It is presented in the form of extensive notes of lectures given by seven distinguished scientists at the Tenth Summer School of the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network. The subjects covered are: basic line and continuum radiation processes in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy; atomic physics of collision- and radiation-dominated plasmas; X-ray spectroscopic observations with ASCA and BeppoSAX; future X-ray spectroscopy missions; X-ray optics, and X-ray spectroscopy instrumentation. The book, which

Authors:Maurice M. Shapiro, Todor Stanev, John P. Wefel,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: astrophysics, italy, erice, june, culture, series, course, science, 13th, international, cosmology, school, cosmic, ray, relativistic
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2004-03
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 9812387277
ISBN-13: 9789812387271

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th Course of the International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics. It focuses on major areas of astrophysics, their relation to cosmic ray physics, and our current understanding of the energetic processes in the Galaxy and the Universe that govern the acceleration and form the features of the cosmic rays that we detect at Earth.

Author: Tomokazu Kogure; Kam-Ching Leung
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: astrophysics, science, library, space, stars, emission, line
Number of Pages: 530
Published: 2007-07-06
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 0387345000
ISBN-13: 9780387345000

Many types of stars show conspicuous emission lines in their optical spectra. These stars are broadly referred to as emission line stars. Emission line stars are attractive to many people because of their spectacular phenomena and their variability. The Astrophysics of Emission Line Stars offers general information on emission line stars, starting from a brief introduction to stellar astrophysics, and then moving toward a broad overview of emission line stars including early and late type stars as well as pre-main sequence stars. Detailed references have been prepared along with an index for f

Author: Gilles Chabrier
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: astrophysics, contemporary, cambridge, structure, formation
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 2009-02-09
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0521887798
ISBN-13: 9780521887793

Understanding the formation of objects at all scales in the universe, from galaxy clusters to stars and planets, is a major problem in modern astrophysics, and one of the most exciting challenges of twenty-first century astronomy. Even though they are characterized by different scales, the formation of planets, stars and galaxies share many common physical processes and are rooted in the same underlying domains of physics. This unique reference for graduate students and researchers in astrophysics is the first to cover structure formation on various scales in one volume. This book gathers toge

Author: Russell M. Kulsrud
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: astrophysics, series, princeton, plasma, physics
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2004-11-28
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0691120730
ISBN-13: 9780691120737

In this book, a distinguished expert introduces plasma physics from the ground up, presenting it as a comprehensible field that can be grasped largely on the basis of physical intuition and qualitative reasoning, similar to other fields of physics. Plasmas are ionized gases that can be found in a hydrogen bomb explosion, the confinement chamber of an experimental fusion reactor, the solar corona, the aurora borealis, the interstellar medium, and the immediate vicinity of a gravitational black hole. Not surprisingly, plasma physics appears to consist of numerous topics arising independently fro

Author: Fulvio Melia
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: astrophysics, series, princeton, energy
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2009-01-26
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0691140294
ISBN-13: 9780691140292

High-energy astrophysics involves the study of exceedingly dynamic and energetic phenomena occurring near the most extreme celestial objects known to exist, such as black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, and supernova remnants. High-Energy Astrophysics provides graduate and advanced undergraduate students with the most complete, self-contained introduction to the subject available. This textbook covers all the essentials, weaving together the latest theory with the experimental techniques, instrumentation, and observational methods astronomers use to study high-energy radiation from space.

Author: Mario Vietri
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: astrophysics, theoretical, energy, foundations
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0226855694
ISBN-13: 9780226855691

Written by one of today’s most highly respected astrophysicists, Foundations of High-Energy Astrophysics is an introduction to the mathematical and physical techniques used in the study of high-energy astrophysics. Here, Mario Vietri approaches the basics of high-energy astrophysics with an emphasis on underlying physical processes as opposed to a more mathematical approach. Alongside more traditional topics, Vietri presents new subjects increasingly considered crucial to understanding high-energy astrophysical sources, including the electrodynamics of cosmic sources, new developments in th