Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods books

Ever since the serendipitous discovery of planet Uranus in 1871, astronomers have been hunting for new worlds in...  Read More >>

The study of the long-term behaviour of solar activity may be comp- mented by the study of historical accounts describing...  Read More >>

Today explorers are going in new directions, not just east and west, north and south. They explore backward in time...  Read More >>

The idea of having a meeting came to the Editors when working on several aspects of galactic Be and B[e] stars....  Read More >>

The book begins with a historical introduction, ""Star Formation: The Early History"", that presents new material...  Read More >>

Dark matter research is one of the most fascinating and active fields among current high-profile scientific endeavours....  Read More >>

Three eminent scientists, each well known for the clarity of their writing, present for students and researchers...  Read More >>

Celebrates the achievements of five women, four of whom were born in Ireland while the fifth married into an Irish...  Read More >>

Provides the complete academic treatment on the application of polytropes. This book is primarily intended for students...  Read More >>

The papers included in this volume cover di?erent complementary ?elds: observations of the new Rosetta targets,...  Read More >>

Written specifically for physicists and graduate students, this textbook focuses on fundamental and sometimes practical...  Read More >>

Observational and Theoretical Issues of Interacting Binaries was the topic of the 22nd Advanced Course of the Swiss...  Read More >>

Star clusters are at the heart of astronomy, being key objects for our understanding of stellar evolution and galactic...  Read More >>

Brings together the lectures given at the Les Houches summer school ""Infrared space astronomy, today and tomorrow""....  Read More >>

Astromineralogy deals with the science of gathering mineralogical information from the astronomical spectroscopy...  Read More >>

This text provides a complete survey of the astrophysics of planetary nebulae, including theory and observations....  Read More >>

The ""standard candles"", used to set up the extragalactic distance scale, reviewed in this book include cepheid...  Read More >>

) and questions about numerical tools (synthetic elements, indicators of chaos, ... Roy delivered a lecture honoring...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the Joint Discussion-17 at the 23rd IAU General Assembly, organised by the Commission 41, held in...  Read More >>

This volume, the fourteenth in the Space Sciences Series of ISS/, is dedicated to the matter in the universe, which...  Read More >>

Reducing the cost of space program interests people more and more nowadays due to the concerns of budget limitation...  Read More >>

It is organized along topical themes, such as the extragalactic background radiation at different wavelengths, the...  Read More >>

This volume contains a comprehensive treatment of X-ray spectroscopy, as applied in astrophysics. X-ray optics,...  Read More >>

Recent advances in our understanding of instabilities in galactic type systems have led to an unravelling of some...  Read More >>

It incorporates these concepts into an analysis of complex phenomena including the sun and solar activity, shocks,...  Read More >>