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Author:   R. Pallavicini
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1988 ed.
Volume:   249
Weight:   0.980kg
ISBN:  

9789027728128

ISBN 10:   9027728127
Pages:   434
Publication Date:   31 October 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Radiative Processes.- Radiation from Hot, Thin Plasmas.- Diagnostic Techniques for Hot Thin Astrophysical Plasmas.- 2. X-Ray Instrumentation.- Instrumentation for the Study of Cosmic X-Ray Plasmas.- Systematic Errors in the Determination of X-Ray Spectrum Parameters and the Calibration of Space Experiments.- 3. Solar and Stellar Coronae.- The Solar Corona.- Ultraviolet Stellar Spectroscopy.- X-Ray Emission from Normal Stars.- Some Exos at Results on Stellar Coronae.- The Magnetic Fields on Cool Stars and Their Correlation with Chromospheric and Coronal Emission.- Re-Analysis of the Coronal Emission from Rs Cvn Type Binaries.- 4. Related Optically-Thick Stellar Sources.- High Resolution Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy of Hot White Dwarfs.- Pulsating White Dwarfs.- Radiation from Gas Envelopes around Be Stars.- 5. Supernova Remnants and the Hot Interstellar Medium.- X-Ray Observations of Hot Thin Plasma in Supernova Remnants.- The Hot Interstellar Medium: Observations.- Theory of Supernova Remnants and the Hot Interstellar Medium.- 6. Galaxies and Galactic Halos.- Observations of Galaxies and Galactic Halos.- A Theoretical Understanding of Hot Gas around Galaxies.- Ram Pressure Stripping and Galactic Fountains.- 7. Clusters of Galaxies.- X-Ray Observations of Clusters of Galaxies.- Theory of Intracluster Gas.- Intergalactic Plasma in Clusters: Evolution.- Exosat Observations of the Virgo Cluster.- 8. Future X-Ray Missions.- First Results from Ginga.- The Rosat Mission.- The Wide Held Camera for Rosat: Observing Stars.- The Sax X-Ray Astronomy Mission.- The Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility.- The Xmm Mission.- The Ussr Space Astronomy Programme.- Future Space Astronomy Programme of Japan.

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