Astrophysics books

From young pilot and wannabe astronaut to engineer, bureaucrat, and finally director of the Johnson Space Center...  Read More >>

This book employs computer simulations of ‘artificial’ Universes to investigate the properties of two popular alternatives...  Read More >>

The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize....  Read More >>

The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize....  Read More >>

This thesis makes two important contributions to plasma physics. The first is the extension of the seminal theoretical...  Read More >>

This PhD thesis details the development of a new 1D ionospheric model to describe the upper atmospheres of extrasolar...  Read More >>

Lastly, it proposes new techniques for the computationally efficient inference on gravitational waves. On 14 September...  Read More >>

This thesis highlights data from MINOS, a long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment, and details one of the...  Read More >>

A short book - written in a first person, direct, conversational style - arguing the case for the claims of Christianity,...  Read More >>

This didactic book uses a data-driven approach to connect measurements made by plasma instruments to the real world....  Read More >>

This thesis describes the application of a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code to accretion disc winds in two types...  Read More >>

Prior to the 1920s it was generally thought, with a few exceptions, that our galaxy, the Milky Way, was the entire...  Read More >>

This book consists of invited reviews written by world-renowned experts on the subject of the outskirts of galaxies,...  Read More >>

How do alien, faraway worlds reveal their existence to Earthlings? Let Donald Goldsmith count the ways. As an experienced...  Read More >>

How do alien, faraway worlds reveal their existence to Earthlings? Let Donald Goldsmith count the ways. As an experienced...  Read More >>

High time-resolution astrophysics (HTRA) involves measuring and studying astronomical phenomena on timescales of...  Read More >>

Summarises key aspects of semiconductor laser device physics and principles of laser operation. The book provides...  Read More >>

This guide provides in a simple design the achievements tale of contemporary astrophysics -- how the use of known...  Read More >>

Summarises key aspects of semiconductor laser device physics and principles of laser operation. The book provides...  Read More >>

This textbook provides students with a solid introduction to the techniques of approximation commonly used in data...  Read More >>

The articles republished in this book survey and summarize recent research in helioseismology as well as studies...  Read More >>

Top researchers in the field of gravitation present the state-of-the-art topics outlined in this book, ranging from...  Read More >>

In an effort to understand the stability of orbits in the solar system, Poincaré applied a Hamiltonian formulation...  Read More >>

Of all the mishaps that could fall upon us, only an World effect by a large comet or asteroid has the possibility...  Read More >>

Covering topics of radio astronomy, this book contains graduate-level problems with carefully presented solutions....  Read More >>