Observational Astrophysics

Pierre Lena, Francois Lebrun, Francois Mignard

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• This second edition has been entirely restructured and almost doubled in size, in order to improve clarity and account for the great progress achieved... Lees meer

Astrophysical Formulae

Kenneth R Lang

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• This is a definitive reference of 2,100 fundamental formulae used in astronomy and astrophysics. It not only makes accessible all the indispensable eq... 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

Astronomical Image and Data Analysis

J -L Starck, F Murtagh

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

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

The Early Universe

Gerhard Börner

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• 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

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

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

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

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 Interiors

Carl J Hansen, Steven D Kawaler, Virginia Trimble

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• 1. Preliminaries; 2. An Overview of Stellar Evolution; 3. Equations of State; 4. Radiative and Conductive Heat Transfer, 5. heat Transfer by Convectio... Lees meer

Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• The underlying astrophysical mechanisms of the objects known as asymptotic giant branch stars - the structures that occur during the dramatic period p... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Planetary Systems

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

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Planetary Systems.- Detection Methods.- Extrasolar Planets, 12 Years After the First Discovery.- What we Learn from the Solar System.- Stellar Formati... 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

Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology

Peter Hoyng

• Hardcover | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to compact objects, g... Lees meer

Physics of the Galaxy and Interstellar Matter

Helmut Scheffler, Hans Elsässer

• Paperback | Engels | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
• The present book is a translation of the original German edition (published in 1982) with some minor corrections and improvements. The guide to sup- p... 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