Télécharger le livre :  From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies
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In order to outline possible future directions in galaxy research, this book wants to be a short stopover, a moment of self-reflection of the past century of achievements in this area. Since the pioneering years of galaxy research in the early 20th century, the...

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Parution : 2016-07-26
Collection : Astrophysics and Space Science Library
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Télécharger le livre :  Magnetic Reconnection
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This book provides an overview of recent research highlights in the main areas of application of magnetic reconnection (MR), including planetary, solar and magnetospheric physics and astrophysics. It describes how research on magnetic reconnection, especially concerning...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-02-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Tidal Streams in the Local Group and Beyond
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This volume is written by leading scientists in the field, who review the current state of our knowledge of tidal streams in the Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy, and in other nearby galaxies. The cosmological origins of dwarf galaxies and the physical processes by which...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-12-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploring the History of New Zealand Astronomy
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Dr. Orchiston is a foremost authority on the subject of New Zealand astronomy, and here are the collected papers of his fruitful studies in this area, including both those published many years ago and new material. The papers herein review traditional Maori...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-12-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding the Epoch of Cosmic Reionization
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The dawn of the first stars, galaxies and black holes signaled a fundamental milestone in our Universe’s evolution: the Epoch of Reionization.The light from these galactic ancestors began spreading out, ionizing virtually every atom in existence. Our Universe...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-11-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Starlight Night
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In this updated second edition renowned amateur comet-searcher David H. Levy expands on his work about the intricate relationship between the night sky and the works of English Literature. This revised and expanded text includes new sections on Alfred Lord Tennyson and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-11-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Physics of Magnetic Flux Tubes
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This book is the first account of the physics of magnetic flux tubes from their fundamental properties to collective phenomena in an ensembles of flux tubes. The physics of magnetic flux tubes is absolutely vital for understanding fundamental physical processes in the...

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Parution : 2015-02-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars
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The existence of blue straggler stars, which appear younger, hotter, and more massive than their siblings, is at odds with a simple picture of stellar evolution. Such stars should have exhausted their nuclear fuel and evolved long ago to become cooling white dwarfs....

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Parution : 2014-12-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Solar Prominences
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This volume presents the latest research results on solar prominences, including new developments on e.g. chirality, fine structure, magnetism, diagnostic tools and relevant solar plasma physics.In 1875 solar prominences, as seen out of the solar limb, were described by...

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Parution : 2014-11-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
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Jacobus C. Kapteyn (1851-1922) was a Dutch astronomer who contributed heavily to major catalogs of star positions, such as the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung and the Harvard-Groningen Durchmusterung, and arranged extensive international collaboration through his Plan...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Magnetic Fields in Diffuse Media
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This volume presents the current knowledge of magnetic fields in diffuse astrophysical media. Starting with an overview of 21st century instrumentation to observe astrophysical magnetic fields, the chapters cover observational techniques, origin of magnetic fields,...

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Parution : 2014-11-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Formation and Disruption of Black Hole Jets
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This book reviews the phenomenology displayed by relativistic jets as well as the most recent theoretical efforts to understand the physical mechanisms at their origin. Relativistic jets have been observed and studied in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) for about half a...

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Parution : 2014-11-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Camille Flammarion's The Planet Mars
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Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) began his career at 16 as a human computer under the great mathematician U. J. J. Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory.  He soon tired of the drudgery; he was drawn to more romantic vistas, and at 19 wrote a book on an idea that he was to...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Solar Cosmic Rays
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Presents a comprehensive approach to the open questions in solar cosmic ray research and includes consistent and detailed considerations of conceptual, observational, theoretical, experimental and applied aspects of the field. The results of solar cosmic ray (SCR)...

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Parution : 2014-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Coronas-F Space Mission
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This volume is the updated and extended translation of the Russian original. It presents the results of observations of solar activity and its effects in the Earth space environment carried out from July 2001 to December 2005 on board the CORONAS-F space mission. The...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Stars of Galileo Galilei and the Universal Knowledge of Athanasius Kircher
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In this fascinating book, the author traces the careers, ideas, discoveries, and inventions of two renowned scientists, Athanasius Kircher and Galileo Galilei, one a Jesuit, the other a sincere man of faith whose relations with the Jesuits deteriorated badly. The Author...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-01-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Opacity
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The interaction of radiation with matter is a fundamental process in the universe; in particular, the absorption and scattering of radiation by matter (the opacity) govern the formation, evolution, and structure of stars and planets. But opacity is also important in...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-01-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Dynamics of Magnetically Trapped Particles
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This book is a new edition of Roederer’s classic Dynamics of Geomagnetically Trapped Radiation, updated and considerably expanded. The main objective is to describe the dynamic properties of magnetically trapped particles in planetary radiation belts and plasmas and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-12-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Cosmic Electrodynamics
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This book presents the fundamental concepts of the theory, illustrated by numerous examples of astrophysical applications. Classical concepts are combined with new developments and the authors demarcate what is well established and what is still under debate. To book...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-03-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Le Verrier—Magnificent and Detestable Astronomer
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Translated from the original French by Bernard Sheehan; Edited and with an introduction by Dr. William Sheehan, a neuroscientist and amateur astronomer who is also a research fellow of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, ArizonaLe Verrier was a superb scientist. His...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-03-15
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