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  • - Basic Design Theory and its Historical Development
    af Raymond N. Wilson
    990,95 - 1.270,95 kr.

    Useful for professionals in research and industry, as well as students and astronomers, this volume deals with the theory of reflecting telescope optics. It recounts the historical progress systematically, and includes spot-diagrams that analyse special systems. The concluding part II treats manufacture, testing, alignment, and modern techniques.

  • af Debades Bandyopadhyay & Kamales Kar
    774,95 kr.

  • - Facts and Fiction
    af Gerhard Borner
    869,95 - 1.376,95 kr.

    In the centre are the connections between particle physics and cosmology: The standard model, some basic implications of quantum field theory and the questions of structure formation.

  • - An Introduction
    af Theirry J. -L. Courvoisier
    969,95 - 1.254,95 kr.

    Discussing objects with variability timescales as short as years, months, days and hours, down to milli-seconds, this book describes and derives the physical processes of astrophysics and studies objects in which high-energy astrophysics processes are crucial.

  • af Pierre Lena, François Lebrun & Francois Mignard
    1.300,95 - 1.936,95 kr.

    This second edition has been entirely restructured and almost doubled in size, in order to improve clarity and account for the great progress achieved in the field over the last 15 years. "This is not a handbook for observers.

  • af A.K. Raychaudhuri, A. Banerjee & S. Banerji
    838,95 kr.

    For about half a century the general theory of relativity attracted little attention from physicists.

  • - A Rosetta Stone for the Search of Earth-Like Worlds
    af M. Vázquez, E. Palle & P. Montanes Rodriguez
    1.209,95 - 1.487,95 kr.

    The authors of this book are experts on the subject of extrasolar planets. By presenting an updated perspective of our planet as seen from outer space, they provide a guide for the remote detection of life on other planets and planets beyond the solar system.

  • - Celestial Mechanics of Continuous Media
    af Nikolai N. Gorkavyi & Alexei M. (Institute of Astronomy) Fridman
    1.125,95 kr.

    This monograph presents the first comprehensive and detailed explanation for the planetary rings of Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune, exploring their striking, recently discovered structures such as narrow ringlets, spiral waves, and chain of vortices.

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    1.638,95 kr.

    An excellent handbook on the physics of interplanetary dust, a topic of interest not only to astronomers and space scientists but also to engineers. interstellar dust and circumstellar dust disks. No doubt, the text will be regarded as the standard reference on interplanetary dust for many years to come.

  • - Perturbative and Geometrical Methods
    af Dino Boccaletti & Prof. Giuseppe Pucacco
    1.130,95 - 1.162,95 kr.

    Das Lehrbuch behandelt die Himmelsmechanik und die Stellardynamik aus dem Blickwinkel der Orbitaltheorie, wobei auf Konzepte und Techniken der modernen geometrischen Mechanik zuruckgegriffen wird. Es ist an Astronomie- und Physikstudenten gleichermassen gerichtet. Grundkenntnisse in Analysis und Differentialgeometrie sind erforderlich.

  • af Thérèse Encrenaz, Maria-Antonietta Barucci, Francoise Roques, mfl.
    664,95 - 785,95 kr.

    Provides information on the solar system and its interaction with the interplanetary medium, its various objects, comparative planetology, discussion of questions for further research and future space exploration.

  • - Volume II: Application to Planetary System, Geodynamics and Satellite Geodesy
    af Gerhard Beutler
    818,95 - 887,95 kr.

    In Cooperation with Prof. Leos Mervart and Dr. Andreas Verdun

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    1.125,95 kr.

    After describing cosmic gamma-ray production and absorption, the instrumentation used in gamma-ray astronomy is explained. The main part of the book deals with astronomical results, including the somewhat surprising result that the gamma-ray sky is continuously changing.

  • - Background Science and the Inner Solar System
    af USA) Milone, Eugene F. (University of Calgary & William J. F. Wilson
    561,95 - 720,95 kr.

    This second edition incorporates updates that encompass our expanding knowledge of solar system astrophysics. As well as a detailed exposition of celestial mechanics, including coordinate frames, is has fresh material on planetary bodies including Saturn.

  • af A. Richard Thompson, James M. Moran, Jr. Swenson & mfl.
    551,95 - 655,95 kr.

    Related techniques are introduced, including intensity interferometry, optical interferometry, lunar occultations, tracking of satellites in Earth orbit, interferometry for remote Earth sensing, and holographic measurements of antenna surfaces.

  • af Rudolf Kippenhahn, Alfred Weigert & Achim Weiss
    827,95 - 1.186,95 kr.

    Thoroughly revised for its 2nd edition, this book presents state-of-the-art coverage of stellar physics, and interprets sophisticated current stellar models. A comprehensive view of the physics of the stellar interior and underlying processes and parameters.

  • - Planetary Atmospheres and the Outer Solar System
    af USA) Milone, Eugene F. (University of Calgary & William J. F. Wilson
    982,95 - 989,95 kr.

    This second edition updates our knowledge of planetary atmospheres and of the bodies of the outer solar system and their analogs in other planetary systems. Includes many new results on extrasolar planet detections from the Kepler Mission and other surveys.

  • - A Data Driven Approach
    af George K. Parks
    689,95 kr.

    This didactic book uses a data-driven approach to connect measurements made by plasma instruments to the real world. This book is essential reading for graduate students in space plasma physics, and a useful reference for the broader astrophysics community.

  • - Volume I: Physical, Mathematical, and Numerical Principles
    af Gerhard Beutler
    985,95 kr.

    In cooperation with Prof. Leos Mervart and Dr. Andreas Verdun

  • - A Primer
    af Peter Hoyng
    562,95 kr.

    Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to compact objects, gravitational waves and cosmology.

  • af J.-L. Starck & F. Murtagh
    2.081,95 kr.

  • - White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes
    af Max Camenzind
    742,95 - 1.105,95 kr.

    Modern comprehensive introduction and overview of the physics of White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes, including all relevant observations. Contains a basic introduction to General Relativity, including the modern 3+1 split of spacetime and of Einstein's equations.

  • af J. Ehlers, P. Schneider & E.E. Falco
    940,95 kr.

    Light observed from distant objects is found to be deflected by the gravitational field of massive objects near the line of sight - an effect predicted by Einstein in his first paper setting forth the general theory of relativity, and confirmed by Eddington soon afterwards.

  • af Susanne Huttemeister, Kristen Rohlfs & Thomas L. Wilson
    1.281,95 - 1.460,95 kr.

    The 6th edition of this classic text includes revised discussion of solar system radio astronomy, dust emission and radio supernovae, technical aspects of radio astronomy and receivers, new material on radiation from the early universe and new worked examples.

  • af C. Aerts, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard & D. W. Kurtz
    2.717,95 kr.

    While stellar structure and evolution are understood in general terms, we lack important physical ingredients, despite extensive research during recent decades.Classicalspectroscopy,photometry,astrometryandinterferometryof stars have traditionally been used as observational constraints to deduce the internal stellar physics.

  • af Andre Maeder
    2.408,95 - 2.432,95 kr.

    In this book, the author thoroughly examines the basic mechanical and thermal effects of rotation. The author is an internationally recognized researcher, and the book offers the first comprehensive pedagogically written treatment for researchers and students.

  • - Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, and General Relativity
    af Norman K. Glendenning
    1.358,95 kr.

    The book develops a theory for the constitution of neutron stars and the more exotic Hyperon Stars, Hybrid Stars (containing a quark matter core surrounded by an intricate lattice of quark and hadronic matter) and Strange Stars and Dwarfs (composed of the three light quark flavors sheathed in a solid skin of heavy ions).

  • af George Contopoulos
    1.164,95 - 1.360,95 kr.

    This book is one of the first to provide a general overview of order and chaos in dynamical astronomy. The other two parts deal with order and chaos in galaxies and with other applications in dynamical astronomy, ranging from celestial mechanics to general relativity and cosmology.

  • - A Data Driven Approach
    af George K. Parks
    979,95 kr.

    This didactic book uses a data-driven approach to connect measurements made by plasma instruments to the real world. This book is essential reading for graduate students in space plasma physics, and a useful reference for the broader astrophysics community.

  • af T.L. Wilson
    679,95 kr.

    Covering topics of radio astronomy, this book contains graduate-level problems with carefully presented solutions. The problems are arranged following the content of the book "Tools of Radio Astronomy" by Rohlfs and Wilson (also available in this series) on a chapter-by-chapter basis.

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