An Introduction to Comets

Nicolas Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Written by a leading expert on comets, this textbook is divided into seven main elements with a view to allowing advanced students to appreciate the i... Lees meer

Astronomical Image and Data Analysis

J -L Starck, F Murtagh

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Thisbookpresentsmaterialwhichismorealgorithmicallyorientedthanmost alternatives.Italsodealswithtopicsthatareatorbeyondthestateoftheart. Examples inclu... Lees meer

Observational Astrophysics

Pierre Lena, Francois Lebrun, Francois Mignard

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Written specifically for physicists and graduate students, this textbook focuses on fundamental and sometimes practical limitations on the ultimate pe... Lees meer

Methods of Celestial Mechanics, Volume 1

Gerhard Beutler

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• G. Beutler's Methods of Celestial Mechanics is a coherent textbook for students as well as an excellent reference for practitioners. The first volume ... Lees meer

Astrophysical Formulae

Kenneth R Lang

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• This volume is a reference source of fundamental formulae in physics and astrophysics. In contrast to most of the usual compendia it carefully explain... Lees meer

The Early Universe

Gerhard Börner

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Fourteen years is a long time, and especially in the field of cosmology new observational results and new theoretical ideas seem to appear at a steadi... Lees meer

Stellar Interiors

Carl J Hansen, Steven D Kawaler, Virginia Trimble

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Some praise for the previous edition: "Besides being well-written, it presents some fresh perspectives . . . Well-designed . . . for students interest... Lees meer

Compact Stars

Norman K Glendenning

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Neutron stars are the smallest densest stars known, with densities some trillions of times that of the Earth. They rotate with periods of fractions of... Lees meer

Special and General Relativity

Norman K Glendenning

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Special and General Relativity are concisely developed together with essential aspects of nuclear and particle physics. Problem sets are provided for ... Lees meer

Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• This book deals with the underlying astrophysical mechanisms of the objects known as asymptotic giant branch stars -- the structures that occur during... Lees meer

Principles of Star Formation

Peter Bodenheimer

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Understanding star formation is one of the key fields in present-day astrophysics. This book treats a wide variety of the physical processes involved,... Lees meer

The Stars

Evry L Schatzman, Francoise Praderie

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• The year 1996 will see the seventieth anniversary of the publication of The Internal Constitution 01 the Stars by Sir Arthur Eddington. This book re- ... Lees meer

Compact Objects in Astrophysics

Max Camenzind

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Compact objects are an important class of astronomical objects in current research. Supermassive black holes are important to understanding of the for... Lees meer

Stellar Structure and Evolution

Rudolf Kippenhahn, Alfred Weigert, Achim Weiss

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• This long-awaited second edition of the classical textbook on Stellar Structure and Evolution by Kippenhahn and Weigert is a thoroughly revised versio... Lees meer

Observational Astrophysics

Pierre Léna, Daniel Rouan, François Lebrun, François Mignard, Didier Pelat

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• , This is the updated, widely revised, restructured and expanded third edition of Léna et al.'s successful work Observational Astrophysics. It present... Lees meer

The Sun

Michael Stix

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• A wealth of new experimental and theoretical results has been obtained in solar physics since the first edition of this textbook appeared in 1989. Thu... Lees meer

Chemical Evolution of Galaxies

Francesca Matteucci

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• The term "chemical evolution of galaxies" refers to the evolution of abundances of chemical species in galaxies, which is due to nuclear processes occ... Lees meer

Planetary Systems

Marc Ollivier, Thérèse Encrenaz, Francoise Roques, Franck Selsis, Fabienne Casoli

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Over the past ten years, the discovery of extrasolar planets has opened a new field of astronomy, and this area of research is rapidly growing, from b... Lees meer

Solar-Type Activity in Main-Sequence Stars

Roald E Gershberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• The first comprehensive monograph on this active and productive field of research investigates solar-type activity amongst the large spectrum of low- ... Lees meer

Supernova Explosions

David Branch, J Craig Wheeler

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Targeting advanced students of astronomy and physics, as well as astronomers and physicists contemplating research on supernovae or related fields, Da... Lees meer

Introduction to Astrochemistry

Satoshi Yamamoto

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library | nr. 7
• This important book describes the basic principles of astrochemistry--an interdisciplinary field combining astronomy, physics, and chemistry--with par... Lees meer

Modern Astrometry

Jean Kovalevsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• On the occasion ofthe second edition ofthe book, it appeared necessary to up- date information that was already seven years old. Astrometry has record... Lees meer

The Solar System

Thérèse Encrenaz, Jean-Pierre Bibring, M Blanc, Maria-Antonietta Barucci, Francoise Roques, Philippe Zarka

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• In this third corrected and revised edition students and lecturers in astronomy and planetary science as well as planet observers will find a mine of ... Lees meer

Astronomical Optics and Elasticity Theory

Gérard René Lemaitre

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Astronomical Optics and Elasticity Theory provides a very thorough and comprehensive account of what is known in this field. After an extensive introd... Lees meer