All ebooks in the collection "Astrophysics and Space Science Library" - Springer

A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR

Collectif

This translation of A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR makes descriptions of the antennas and instrumentation used in the USSR, the astronomical discoveries, as well as interesting personal backgrounds of many of the early key players in Soviet radio...

The Astronomer Jules Janssen

Françoise Launay

A physicist and an inventor, Jules Janssen (1824-1907) devoted his life to astronomical research. He spent many years traveling around the world to observe total Solar eclipses, demonstrating that a new era of science had just come thanks to the use of both spectroscopy...

Fundamental Questions of Practical Cosmology

Yurij Baryshev , Pekka Teerikorpi

This book guides readers (astronomers, physicists, and university students) through central questions of Practical Cosmology, a term used by the late Allan Sandage to denote the modern scientific endeavor to find the cosmological model best describing the universe of...

The Spiral Galaxy M33

P. Hodge

This book summarizes the gathering of information on and the growing understanding of M33 from the 1920s, when Hubble first determined its true nature, to the 21st century, when the Hubble Telescope probed deeply into its many secrets. With its regular symmetrical...

Fine Structure of Solar Radio Bursts

Gennady P. Chernov

The study of the fine structure of solar radio emissions is key to understanding plasma processes in the solar corona. It remains a reliable means for both diagnosing the corona and verifying the results of laboratory plasma experiments on wave-wave and wave-particle...

Integrated Modeling of Telescopes

Torben Andersen , Anita Enmark

Ground- or space-based telescopes are becoming increasingly more complex and construction budgets are typically in the billion dollar range. Facing costs of this magnitude, availability of engineering tools for prediction of performance and design optimization is...

Coronal Mass Ejections

Timothty Howard

The book introduces the solar coronal mass ejection phenomena. This includes both those observed in the corona and those further from the Sun, known as interplanetary coronal mass ejections. We discuss the history and physics behind these phenomena, theories describing...

Jacobi Dynamics

S.A. Denisik , V.I. Ferronsky , S.V. Ferronsky

In their approach to Earth dynamics the authors consider the fundamentals of Jacobi Dynamics (1987, Reidel) for two reasons. First, because satellite observations have proved that the Earth does not stay in hydrostatic equilibrium, which is the physical basis of today’s...

Astronomical Photometry

Eugene F. Milone , C. Sterken

This book will bring together experts in the field of astronomical photometry to discuss how their subfields provide the precision and accuracy in astronomical energy flux measurements that are needed to permit tests of astrophysical theories. Differential photometers...

Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology

Dirk L. Couprie

In Miletus, about 550 B.C., together with our world-picture cosmology was born. This book tells the story.In Part One the reader is introduced in the archaic world-picture of a flat earth with the cupola of the celestial vault onto which the celestial bodies are...

Linear Isentropic Oscillations of Stars

Paul Smeyers , Tim Van Hoolst

Kinetic Theory of the Inner Magnetospheric Plasma

George V. Khazanov

The inner magnetosphere plasma is a very unique composition of different plasma particles and waves. It covers a huge energy plasma range with spatial and time variations of many orders of magnitude. In such a situation, the kinetic approach is the key element, and the...

Water in the Universe

Arnold Hanslmeier

Due to its specific chemical and physical properties, water is essential for life on Earth. And it is assumed that this would be the case for extraterrestrial life as well. Therefore it is important to investigate where water can be found in the Universe. Although there...

Solar Neutrons and Related Phenomena

Lev Dorman

Short Historical Overview In the 1940s, two phenomena in the ?eld of cosmic rays (CR) forced scientists to think that the Sun is a powerful source of high-energy particles. One of these was discovered because of the daily solar variation of CR, which the maximum number...

General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler

Ignazio Ciufolini , Richard A. Matzner

Observational and experimental data pertaining to gravity and cosmology are changing our view of the Universe. General relativity is a fundamental key for the understanding of these observations and its theory is undergoing a continuing enhancement of its intersection...

Planets in Binary Star Systems

Nader Haghighipour

In 1988, in an article on the analysis of the measurements of the variations in the radial velocities of a number of stars, Campbell, Walker, and Yang reported an - teresting phenomenon;the radial velocity variations of Cephei seemed to suggest the existence of a...

Thermal Design and Thermal Behaviour of Radio Telescopes and their Enclosures

Michael Bremer , Albert Greve

Radio telescopes as well as communication antennas operate under the influence of gravity, temperature and wind. Among those, temperature influences may degrade the performance of a radio telescope through transient changes of the focus, pointing, path length and...

The Principles of Astronomical Telescope Design

Jingquan Cheng

This book presents a complete summary of the author's twenty five years of experience in telescope design. It provides a general introduction to every aspect of telescope design. It also discusses the theory behind telescope design in depth, which makes it a good...

Under the Radar

M Goss , Richard Mcgee

It is rare for a complete biography of an Australian scientist, particularly of an Australian woman scientist, to be published.It is rarer for such a book to be co-authored by an American. Although scientists have written discourses on the history of their discipline,...

Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics

Brian Punsly

Black hole gravitohydromagnetics (GHM) is developed from the rudiments to the frontiers of research in this book. GHM describes plasma interactions that combine the effects of gravity and a strong magnetic field, in the vicinity (ergosphere) of a rapidly rotating black...