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Best Seller | Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Dusty and Self-Gravitational Plasmas in Space (Hardcover) The diverse and often surprising new facts about planetary rings and comet environments that were reported by the interplanetary missions oflate 1970s - 1980s stimulated investigations of the so-called dusty plasma. The number of scientific papers on... more | go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics (Hardcover) Black hole gravitohydromagnetics (GHM) is developed from the rudiments to the frontiers of research in this book. GHM describes plasma interactions that combine the effects of gravity and a strong magnetic field in the vicinity (ergosphere) of a... more | $145.32 $122.76 FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Aeronomy of Mars (Hardcover) Presents the first book on the aeronomy of Mars with results from all Mars missions Highlights various models on the aeronomy of Mars and complements them with experimental data Intended for students and researchers in the field of aeronomy and for... more | FREE shipping go to store |
It is rare for a complete biography of an Australian scientist particularly of an Australian woman scientist to be published. It is rarer for such a book to be co-authored by an American. Although scientists have written discourses on the history of... more | $182.68 $164.18 FREE shipping go to store |
Here is a fascinating text that integrates topics pertaining to all scales of the MHD-waves emphasizing the linkages between the ULF-waves below the ionosphere on the ground and magnetospheric MHD-waves. It will be most helpful to graduate and... more | $163.87 $149.77 FREE shipping go to store |
The 10th ESLAB Symposium was held at Grossenzersdorf near Vienna on 10-13 June 1975 under the title The Scientific Satellite Programme During the Inter- national Magnetospheric Study . The Symposium was attended by an invited audience of 60 scientists... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Whistler Phenomena: Short Impulse Propagation (Hardcover) In this volume the authors present theoretical explanations for a few basic problems connected with the propagation of extra wide band short impulses in linear media and with the propagation of whistlers and megawhistlers in plasmas. In addition the... more | $89.09 $74.84 FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Astronomical Masers (Hardcover) One of the most spectacular discoveries of molecular astronomy has been the detection of maser emission. The same radiation that is generated in the laboratory only with elaborate special equipment occurs naturally in interstellar space. This intense... more | go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library The Sun Recorded Through History Book 361 (Hardcover) The Sun is nowadays observed using di?erent techniques that provide an almost instantaneous 3-D map of its structure. Of particular interest is the studyofthevariabilityinthesolaroutputproducedbythedissipationofm- netic energy on di?erent spatial and... more | go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Integrated Modeling of Telescopes (Hardcover) Ground- or space-based telescopes are becoming increasingly more complex and construction budgets are typically in the billion dollar range. Facing costs of this magnitude availability of engineering tools for prediction of performance and design... more | FREE shipping go to store |
A very attractive feature of the theory of general relativity is that it is a perfectexampleofa falsi?able theory: notunableparameterispresentinthe theory and therefore even a single experiment incompatible with a prediction of the theory would... more | $173.56 $104.17 FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Water in the Universe (Hardcover) Searching for water in the universe is central to our search for extraterrestrial life and vitally important in topics such as astrophysics and astrobiology. This book examines water s physical properties as well as our progress in finding it in outer... more | $84.99 $74.84 FREE shipping go to store |
th The 4 ESO CCO Workshop Optical Detectors for Astronomy was held during September 13-16 1999 at its usual location the headquarters of the European Southern Observatory in Garching Germany. We prefer to remember this workshop as a meeting of friends... more | go to store |
Radio telescopes as well as communication antennas operate under the influence of gravity temperature and wind. Among those temperature influences may degrade the performance of a radio telescope through transient changes of the focus pointing path... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: The Astronomer Jules Janssen (Hardcover) A physicist and an inventor Jules Janssen (1824-1907) devoted his life to astronomical research. He spent many years traveling around the world to observe total Solar eclipses demonstrating that a new era of science had just come thanks to the use of... more | $129.59 $107.81 FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: The Spiral Galaxy M33 (Hardcover) This overview of our developing understanding of spiral galaxy M33 adds historical perspective to today s cutting-edge research taking us from Hubble s determination of its true nature in the 1920s up to today when the Hubble telescope can probe its... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: The Dynamic Sun (Hardcover) Our Sun is the nearest star and thus an ideal laboratory to study dynamic processes which are related to solar terrestrial physics. The topics addressed in this book cover solar MHD and generation of acoustic waves as well as physical parameters that... more | $164.17 $152.79 FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Millisecond Pulsars (Hardcover) Millisecond Pulsars more | $128.23 $104.20 FREE shipping go to store |
This book presents recent results on the modelling of space plasmas with Kappa distributions and their interpretation. Hot and dilute space plasmas most often do not reach thermal equilibrium their dynamics being essentially conditioned by the kinetic... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Hot Interstellar Matter in Elliptical Galaxies (Hardcover) Based on a number of discoveries resulting from 10 years of Chandra and XMM-Newton observations and corresponding theoretical works this is the first book to address significant progress in the research of the Hot Interstellar Matter in Elliptical... more | $144.06 $135.81 FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Starbursts: From 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies (Other) Starbursts are important features of early galaxy evolution. Many of the distant high-redshift galaxies we are able to detect are in a starbursting phase often apparently provoked by a violent gravitational interaction with another galaxy. In fact if... more | FREE shipping go to store |
How Einstein Created Relativity out of Physics and Astronomy (Astrophysics and Space Science Library 394) ISBN-10 146144781X ISBN-13 9781461447818 Topper David 2013 edition 272 pages Publisher: Springer Binding: Hardcover This book tracks the history... more | go to store |
This book presents a complete summary of the author s twenty five years of experience in telescope design. It provides a general introduction to every aspect of telescope design. It also discusses the theory behind telescope design in depth which makes... more | $207.54 $149.82 FREE shipping go to store |
Professor Zdenek Kopal is sixty-seven this year even though his scientific activity enthusiasm and springy step hardly betray the ad- vancement in years. He carne to Manchester as Professor of Astronomy thirty years ago after a very fruitful... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy 7 (Paperback) Astronomy isthemostancientsciencehumanshavepracticedonEarth. Itisascienceofextremesandoflargenumbers: extremesoftime-fromthe big bang to in?nity - of distances of temperatures of density and masses ofmagnetic?eld etc.Itisasciencewhichishighlyvisible... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Basic Concepts.- The Equations Governing Linear Perturbations in a Quasi-Static Star.- Deviations from the Hydrostatic and Thermal Equilibrium in a Quasi-Static Star.- Eigenvalue Problem of the Linear Isentropic Normal Modes in a Quasi-Static Star.-... more | FREE shipping go to store |
This book guides readers (astronomers physicists and university students) through central questions of Practical Cosmology a term used by the late Allan Sandage to denote the modern scientific endeavor to find the cosmological model best describing the... more | $164.18 $134.35 FREE shipping go to store |
Astronomy in the Near-Infrared - Observing Strategies and Data Reduction Techniques more | $159.99 $130.31 FREE shipping go to store |
NASA s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) planned for operation in about five years will have the capability to investigate - and answer - some of the most challenging questions in astronomy. Although motivated and designed to study the very early... more | $349.99 $332.49 FREE shipping go to store |
The International Conference Ultraviolet Properties of Evolved Stellar P- ulations held in Puerto Vallarta M exico on April 16-20 2007 is the s- ond New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics event sponsored by the Instituto Nacional de Astrof ?sica Optica y... more | $219.99 $181.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings: Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics V (Hardcover) Astronomy is a scienti?c discipline that has developed a rapid and impressive growth in Spain. Thirty years ago Spain occupied a purely anecdotal presence in the international context but today it occupies the eighth position in the world in... more | $176.21 $151.10 FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings: Science with the VLT in the ELT Era (Hardcover) The Workshop Science with the VLT in the ELT Era held in Garching from 8th to 12th October 2007 was organised by ESO with support from its Scienti c and Technical Committee to provide a forum for the astronomical community to debate the long term... more | $219.99 $149.31 FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned The Sun from Space (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library) Paperback Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The present volume gathers together the talks presented at the second colloquim on the Future Professional Communication in Astronomy (FPCA II) held at Harvard University (Cambridge MA) on 13-14 April 2010. This meeting provided a forum for editors... more | FREE shipping go to store |
: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will provide more than one order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity compared with any existing radio telescope over a wavelength range of several hundred to one from decametric to microwave wavelengths. It will... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Dwarf galaxy research constitutes an extremely vibrant field of astrophysical research with many long-standing questions still unsettled and new ones constantly arising. The intriguing diversity of the dwarf galaxy population observed with advanced... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 Years Later: Proceedings of Symposium 2 of Jenam 2010 more | FREE shipping go to store |
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings: Chaos in Astronomy: Conference 2007 (Hardcover) The conference Chaos in Astronomy was held in Athens from 17 to 20 September 2007 and was dedicated to the memory of Nikos Voglis who was directoroftheResearchCenterforAstronomyoftheAcademyofAthensuntil his death on 9 February 2007. It was attended by... more | $283.85 $211.15 FREE shipping go to store |
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