Author : Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.). Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521847599
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Author : Joss Bland-Hawthorn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642417205
This volume contains the updated and expanded lecture notes of the 37th Saas-Fee Advanced Course organised by the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. It offers the most comprehensive and up to date review of one of the hottest research topics in astrophysics - how our Milky Way galaxy formed. Joss Bland-Hawthorn & Ken Freeman lectured on Near Field Cosmology - The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group. Francesca Matteucci’s chapter is on Chemical evolution of the Milky Way and its Satellites. As designed by the SSAA, books in this series – and this one too – are targeted at graduate and PhD students and young researchers in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. Lecturers and researchers entering the field will also benefit from the book.
Author : Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Galaxies
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Author : Bärbel Silvia Koribalski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402069332
This timely book presents an overview of the galaxies within the Local Volume, including the Local Group and our closest neighbours, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. Presented here are the latest results from radio, infrared and optical surveys as well as detailed multi-wavelength studies of individual galaxies. The book aims to provide a vibrant forum for presentations and discussions across a broad range of astrophysical topics.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Astronomical observatories
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Author : A.J. Willis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401708037
Throughout his career Sir Robert Wilson has demonstrated that advances in a wide variety of fields in astrophysics and laboratory physics are achievable through the application of fundamental plasma spectroscopy. His work has included: optical studies that probed the nature of interstellar dust and first revealed the existence of O star winds; vacuum ultraviolet and X-ray diagnosis of fusion plasmas; rocket ultraviolet and X-ray observations of the Sun; and the conception, development and use of the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite which has contributed greatly to stellar, interstellar and extragalactic astrophysics. This volume contains reviews honouring Sir Robert and reflecting his interests.
Author : Carroll Dailey
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Astrophysics
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Author : Donald W. Kurtz
Publisher :
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.). Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521762634
Presents observational and theoretical papers from world experts addressing the important role in astrophysics of massive stars.
Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521863438
Planetary nebulae represent the brief transition between Asymptotic Giant Branch stars and White Dwarfs. As multi-wavelength laboratories they have played a key role in developing our understanding of atomic, molecular, dust and plasma processes in astrophysical environments. The means by which their wonderfully diverse morphologies are obtained is currently the subject of intense research, including hydrodynamical shaping mechanisms and the role of binarity, stellar magnetic fields and rotation. Their contribution to the chemical enrichment of galaxies is another very active research area, as is the ever growing use of their narrow high luminosity emission lines to probe the dynamics and mass distributions of galaxies and the intergalactic media of clusters of galaxies. IAU S234 summarises the current status of research on the properties and processes of planetary nebulae, as reported in reviews and papers by leading experts working in the field.
