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...

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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 :  Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century
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Winner of the AAS 2019 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical AstronomyGrabbing the attention of poets, politicians and the general public alike, a series of spectacular astronomical events in the late 1800s galvanized Americans to take a greater interest in...

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Parution : 2014-09-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Advanced Interferometers and the Search for Gravitational Waves
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The search for gravitational radiation with optical interferometers is gaining momentum worldwide. Beside the VIRGO and GEO gravitational wave observatories in Europe and the two LIGOs in the United States, which have operated successfully during the past decade,...

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Parution : 2014-07-08
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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...

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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...

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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 :  50 Years of Brown Dwarfs
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The years 2012/2013 mark the 50th anniversary of the theoretical prediction that Brown Dwarfs, i.e. degenerate objects which are just not massive enough to sustain stable hydrogen fusion, exist. Some 20 years after their discovery, how Brown Dwarfs form is still one of...

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Parution : 2013-11-27
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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...

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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...

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Parution : 2013-03-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Turbulence and Self-Organization
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The book deals with the development of continual models of turbulent natural media. Such models serve as a ground for the statement and numerical evaluation of the key problems of the structure and evolution of the numerous astrophysical and geophysical objects.The...

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Parution : 2013-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy
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The year 2011 marked the 80th anniversary of Georges Lemaître’s primeval atom model of the universe, forerunner of the modern day Big Bang theory. Prompted by this momentous anniversary the Royal Astronomical Society decided to publish a volume of essays on the life,...

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Parution : 2013-01-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The First Galaxies
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New observations of the period between the cosmic recombination and the end of reionization are posing intriguing questions about where the first generations of stars were formed, how the first galaxies were assembled, whether these galaxies have low redshift...

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Parution : 2012-12-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Carl Størmer
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This biography summarizes the seminal contributions to auroral and space science of Carl Størmer (1874 - 1957). He was the first to develop precise photographic methods to calculate heights and morphologies of diverse auroral forms during four solar cycles. Størmer...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-10-20
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Télécharger le livre :  How Einstein Created Relativity out of Physics and Astronomy
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This book tracks the history of the theory of relativity through Einstein’s life, with in-depth studies of its background as built upon by ideas from earlier scientists. The focus points of Einstein’s theory of relativity include its development throughout his life; the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-09-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Fifty Years of Quasars
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The 50th anniversary of the discovery of quasars in 1963 presents an interesting opportunity to ask questions about the current state of quasar research. Formatted as a series of interviews with noted researchers in the field, each of them asked to address a specific...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Plasma Astrophysics, Part I
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This two-part book is devoted to classic fundamentals and current practices and perspectives of modern plasma astrophysics.This first part uniquely covers all the basic principles and practical tools required for understanding and work in plasma astrophysics. More than...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Plasma Astrophysics, Part II
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This two-part book is devoted to classic fundamentals and current practices and perspectives of modern plasma astrophysics.This second part discusses the physics of magnetic reconnection and flares of electromagnetic origin in space plasmas in the solar system, single...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-08-16
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