The Origin and Evolution of Planetary Nebulae

Sun Kwok

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 33
• This authoritative volume presents a thoroughly modern understanding of planetary nebulae, integrating new developments in stellar physics with the dy... Lees meer

Sunspots and Starspots

John H Thomas, Nigel O Weiss

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 46
• Written from both an observational and historical perspective, this book is the first to provide a comprehensive combined account of sunspots and star... Lees meer

The Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Pavel D Naselsky, Dmitry I Novikov, Igor D Novikov

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 41
• Spectacular observational breakthroughs, particularly by the WMAP satellite, have led to a new epoch of CMB science long after its original discovery.... Lees meer

Cosmic Magnetic Fields

Philipp P Kronberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 53
• Magnetic fields are important in the Universe and their effects contain the key to many astrophysical phenomena that are otherwise impossible to under... Lees meer

Classical Novae

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 43
• This second edition has been updated and revised and contains contributions covering important developments in this field, and reflecting on interesti... Lees meer

Classical Novae

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 43
• This second edition has been updated and revised and contains contributions covering important developments in this field, and reflecting on interesti... Lees meer

Compact Stellar X-Ray Sources

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 39
• X-ray astronomy is the prime available window on astrophysical compact objects: black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the last ten years new... Lees meer

The Solar Granulation

R J Bray, R E Loughhead, C J Durrant

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 5
• This book presents an overview of observational and theoretical knowledge of solar granulation. When examined with a sufficiently powerful telescope t... Lees meer

Ultraviolet and X-Ray Spectroscopy of the Solar Atmosphere

Kenneth J H Phillips, Uri Feldman, Enrico Landi

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 44
• The solar atmosphere, above the Sun's surface layers, reaches mega-kelvin temperatures and high levels of dynamic activity through processes involving... Lees meer

RR Lyrae Stars

Horace A Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 27
• This is a comprehensive account of RR Lyrae stars, and traces the story from their initial discovery a century ago, through to their present status. T... Lees meer

Compact Stellar X-Ray Sources

Lewin Walter

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 39
• X-ray astronomy is the prime available window on astrophysical compact objects: black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the last ten years new... Lees meer

The Physics of Solar Flares

Einar Tandberg-Hanssen, A Gordon Emslie

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 14
• Few phenomena have stirred the imaginations of solar scientists as much as the explosive energy of solar flares. In The Physics of Solar Flares, first... Lees meer

Evolutionary Processes in Binary and Multiple Stars

Peter Eggleton

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 40
• Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. Stars evolve primarily by nuclear reactions in their interiors, but a star with a binary compan... Lees meer

Reforming Private Health Insurance

Mark A Hall

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics
• Between 1987 and 1991, the portion of Americans covered by individually purchased health insurance dropped 40per cent. Assuming the US will continue t... Lees meer

An Introduction to Close Binary Stars

R W Hilditch

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics
• Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. This original text provides a pedagogical and comprehensive introduction to binary stars. The a... Lees meer

Pulsar Astronomy

Andrew Lyne, Francis Graham-Smith, Benjamin Stappers

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 57
• After more than half a century since their unexpected discovery and identification as neutron stars, the observation and understanding of pulsars touc... Lees meer

Astrophysical Magnetic Fields

Anvar Shukurov, Kandaswamy Subramanian

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 56
• Magnetic fields permeate space and affect many major astrophysical phenomena, but they are often ignored due to their perceived complexity. This self-... Lees meer

Stellar Rotation

Jean-Louis Tassoul

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 36
• Understanding how stars rotate is central to modeling their structure, formation and evolution, as well as understanding how they interact with their ... Lees meer

Plasma Loops in the Solar Corona

R J Bray, L E Cram, C Durrant, R E Loughhead

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 18
• A comprehensive account of the properties of plasma loops, the fundamental structural elements of the solar corona. Plasma loops cover a wide range of... Lees meer

Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy

Martin A Barstow, Jay B Holberg

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 37
• This book describes the development of astronomy in the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength range, from the first rocket-based experiments in the lat... Lees meer

X-Ray Emission from Clusters of Galaxies

Craig L Sarazin

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 11
• First published in 1988, this book is a comprehensive survey of the astrophysical characteristics of the hot gas which pervades clusters of galaxies. ... Lees meer

The Symbiotic Stars

S J Kenyon

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 8
• Dr Kenyon has researched and assembled here all the existing data for the known symbiotic stars, in which a dwarf star accretes material from its red ... Lees meer

Ultraviolet and X-Ray Spectroscopy of the Solar Atmosphere

Kenneth J H Phillips, Uri Feldman, Enrico Landi

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 44
• The solar atmosphere, above the Sun's surface layers, reaches mega-kelvin temperatures and high levels of dynamic activity through processes involving... Lees meer

Molecular Collisions in the Interstellar Medium

David Flower

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Astrophysics | nr. 42
• In the interstellar medium - the space between the stars in galaxies - new stars are born from material that is replenished by the debris ejected by s... Lees meer