Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods books

New observational windows at ultraviolet, infrared and millimetric wavelengths (provided by ROSAT, IRAM, IUE, IRAS,...  Read More >>

The exploration of the planets is the modem counterpart to the exploration voy­ ages of old. People are still fascinated...  Read More >>

It is arguable that most of chemistry and a large portion of atomic physics is concemed with the behaviour of the...  Read More >>

The need for this book arose from my teaching, engineering, and - search experience in the non-power aspects of...  Read More >>

The need for this book arose from my teaching, engineering, and - search experience in the non-power aspects of...  Read More >>

Galaxies have a history. This has become clear from sky surveys which have shown that distant galaxies, formed early...  Read More >>

High Time Resolution Astrophysics (HTRA) is an important new window to the universe and a vital tool in understanding...  Read More >>

Presents the edited lecture notes of the First JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars: Models and Constraints, held...  Read More >>

Chaos theory plays an important role in modern physics and related sciences, but -, the most important results so...  Read More >>

Short-period binaries run the gamut from widely separated stars to black-hole pairs; These objects represent stages...  Read More >>

The theory of the Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation observed by Cherenkov in 1934 was created by Tamm, Frank and Ginsburg...  Read More >>

This volume is the outgrowth of several international meetings to discuss a vision for the future of solar radio...  Read More >>

New theoretical models are being developed in order to understand their formation scenarios, and new observational...  Read More >>

Intends to provide scientists active in space physics research with the status of the understanding of CMEs and...  Read More >>

As an emerging subfield of cultural astronomy, African cultural astronomy researchers are focused on training students...  Read More >>

“You will hold in your hands the proceedings of the last conference ever on integral-?eld spectroscopy.” So the...  Read More >>

This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the atmospheres of the giant gaseous planets: Jupiter, Saturn,...  Read More >>

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) concerns the interaction between magnetic fields and conducting fluids. This book is...  Read More >>

Of interest to advanced graduate and post-graduate students following courses in Perturbation Theory and Celestial...  Read More >>

The field of Adaptive Optics (AO) for astronomy has matured in recent years, and diffraction-limited image resolution...  Read More >>

In the last decade extra-galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) have gained increasing importance. They are found in galaxies...  Read More >>

Inevitably, the exploitation of so much new data not only solved some old problems, tidied up several confused areas...  Read More >>

Collects surveys of open problems in celestial dynamics and dynamical astronomy applied to solar, extra-solar and...  Read More >>

However, the energy per UV photon provides the main peculiarity, its magnitude being great enough to produce important...  Read More >>

Astronomical Optics and Elasticity Theory provides a very thorough and comprehensive account of what is known in...  Read More >>