Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods books

Sources discovered in the IRC and AFGL infrared sky surveys were followed up by radio observa­ tions, leading to...  Read More >>

Algol is a triple system containing a 70 hr eclipsing binary (K IV and B8 V) in a 694 day orbit with an A V star....  Read More >>

In trying to achieve this aim, we assembled a staff of lecturers representing various astrophysical specialties,...  Read More >>

A preface usually tells of the author's reasons for writing the book and the author's goals for the reader, followed...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Erice, Sicily, Italy, September 17-25, 1986  Read More >>

Stellar mass loss is an essential part of the cycling of material from the interstellar medium into stars and back,...  Read More >>

Recent years have witnessed the expansion and multiplication of the observations of star formation and fragmentation...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Durham, U.K., July 18-22, 1988  Read More >>

The international symposium Towards an Integrated Global Geodetic Observing System was an initiative of section...  Read More >>

Historically, the discovery of tools, or evidence that tools have been used, has been taken as proof of human activity;...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Neutron Stars: Their Birth, Evolution, Radiation and Winds,...  Read More >>

She has picked up speed while passing under the Bridge of the Americas which links de facto the Northern and Southern...  Read More >>

A small country builds a world-class telescope in its backyard and lives happily ever after (or at least for a quarter...  Read More >>

This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on Shocks in Astrophysics held at UMIST, Manchester,...  Read More >>

Fundamental unsolved problems of stellar astrophysics include the effects of angular momentum on stellar structure...  Read More >>

Text no 1 Radio Recombination Lines (RRLs), discovered in the USSR in 1964, have become a powerful research...  Read More >>

This fact did not, to be sure, escape the attention of previous investigators (in the case of globular clusters,...  Read More >>

Such highly-ionized gas, or plasma, is not restricted to the rarefied densities of intergalactic space, but is also...  Read More >>

Readers may very well disagree with some of the notions presented in these excursions, but I hope that they will...  Read More >>

This book sets forth and builds upon the fundamentals of the dynamics of natural systems in formulating the problem...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Chateau de Bonas, Gers, France, June 11-13, 1985  Read More >>

In the main, however, the design and fabr ication of combustion chambers continues to be based on extrapolation...  Read More >>

Superstitious mankind regarded these events as significant portents and recorded them carefully so that we have...  Read More >>

. . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Astrophysical motivation . 1 Physical mechanism . 1 Physical mechanism . 2 The entrance...  Read More >>

The `International Heidelberg Workshop on TeV Gamma-Ray Astrophysics' brought together astrophysicists from the...  Read More >>