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Theoretical Astrophysics: Volume 2, Stars and Stellar Systems (Hardcover, Volume 2, Stars and Stellar Systems): T Padmanabhan Theoretical Astrophysics: Volume 2, Stars and Stellar Systems (Hardcover, Volume 2, Stars and Stellar Systems)
T Padmanabhan
R4,399 Discovery Miles 43 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This second volume of a comprehensive three-volume work on theoretical astrophysics deals with stellar physics. After reviewing the key observational results and nomenclature used in stellar astronomy, the book develops a solid understanding of central concepts including stellar structure and evolution, the physics of stellar remnants, pulsars, binary stars, the sun and planetary systems, interstellar medium and globular clusters. Throughout, the reader's comprehension is developed and tested with more than seventy-five exercises. This indispensable volume will allow graduate students to master the material sufficiently to read and engage in research with heightened understanding. It can be used alone or in conjunction with Volume 1, which covers a wide range of astrophysical processes, and the forthcoming Volume 3, on galaxies and cosmology.

An Introduction to Close Binary Stars (Hardcover): R. W. Hilditch An Introduction to Close Binary Stars (Hardcover)
R. W. Hilditch
R4,673 Discovery Miles 46 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. This original text provides a pedagogical and comprehensive introduction to binary stars. The author combines theory and observations at all wavelengths to develop a unified understanding of binaries of all categories. Chapters review methods for calculating orbits, the Roche model, ideas about mass exchange and loss, methods for analyzing light curves, the masses and dimensions of different binary systems, and imaging the surfaces of stars and accretion structures. This volume offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students a thorough introduction to binary stars that will aid their learning of stellar astrophysics, stellar structure and evolution, and observational astrophysics.

Variable Stars as Essential Astrophysical Tools - Proceeding of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Variable Stars as... Variable Stars as Essential Astrophysical Tools - Proceeding of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Variable Stars as Essential Astrophysical Tools Ce?me, Turkey August 31 - September 10, 1998 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
Cafer Ibanogammalu
R8,904 Discovery Miles 89 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pulsating and eccentric binary stars play a fundamentally important role in deciphering the mass distribution within stars. The present volume reviews the fundamental concepts of both radial and nonradial oscillations in the stars, including the Sun. Helio- and astroseismological results are reviewed, from the basics to the most recent developments. A new theory is presented, which seems to explain the mechanism of the light and radial velocity variations of recently discovered Ap stars. This textbook covers almost all kinds of variable stars of widely different characteristics. It will serve as a reference text for a very long time to come, not only for specialists but also for undergraduate students of physics and astronomy.

The Carbon Star Phenomenon (Paperback, 2000 ed.): Robert F. Wing The Carbon Star Phenomenon (Paperback, 2000 ed.)
Robert F. Wing
R4,891 Discovery Miles 48 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The atmospheres of many stars have chemical compositions that are significantly different from that of the interstellar medium from which they are formed. This symposium considered all kinds of late-type stars showing altered compositions, the carbon stars being simply the best-known of these. All stages of stellar evolution from the main sequence to the ejection of a planetary nebula were considered, with emphasis on the changes that occur on the asymptotic giant branch. The spectroscopic properties of the photospheres and circumstellar envelopes of chemically-peculiar red giant stars, their origins via single-star evolution or mass transfer in binary systems, and the methods currently used to study them in 2000 were all discussed in detail. This volume includes the full texts of papers given orally at the symposium and abstracts of the posters.

Galaxy Interactions at Low and High Redshift - Proceedings of the 186th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union ,... Galaxy Interactions at Low and High Redshift - Proceedings of the 186th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union , held at Kyoto, Japan, 26-30 August 1997 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
J.E. Barnes, D.B. Sanders
R5,937 Discovery Miles 59 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 186th IAU Symposium came at an exciting and perhaps even historic time for extragalactic astronomy. New spacecraft observations plumbed the depths of the Universe out to redshifts of five, while revealing astounding details of nearby galaxies and AGN at intermediate redshifts. Theoretical ideas on structure formation, together with results from detailed numerical modeling, created a comprehensive framework for modeling the formation of galaxies and the transformation of galaxies by interactions and mergers. All these strands came together at the Symposium, as participants glimpsed a developing synthesis highlighting galactic encounters and their role in the history of the Universe. This volume offers professional astronomers, including PhD students, an overview of the rapidly advancing subject of galaxy interactions at low and high redshifts.

The Origin of Stars and Planetary Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999): Charles J. Lada, N. D.... The Origin of Stars and Planetary Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
Charles J. Lada, N. D. Kylafis
R9,095 Discovery Miles 90 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A few years after the publication of The Physics of Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution, we received a request from the publisher for an up dated second edition of this popular reference book. As originally intended, the volume had proved to be a useful "text" book for graduate astronomy courses and seminars which dealt with topics related to stellar origins. The book was based on a series of lectures delivered by a distinguished group of leading researchers at a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) held in May 1990 on the island of Crete, Greece. The primary goal of the ASI was in fact to produce a book which "would simultaneously provide a broad and systematic overview of, as well as a rigorous introduction to, the fun damental physics and astronomy at the heart of modern research in star formation and early stellar evolution. " However, by 1995 concern had arisen among those who used the text as a reference for graduate seminars and courses that the book would need to be updated to stay abreast of the discoveries and progress in this rapidly evolving field. After some discussion we concluded that a new edition of the book was warranted and that the goal of producing a new edition would be best accomplished by organizing a second ASI in Crete to review the progress in star formation research."

Black Hole Physics - Basic Concepts and New Developments (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998): V.... Black Hole Physics - Basic Concepts and New Developments (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
V. Frolov, I. Novikov
R9,120 Discovery Miles 91 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is not an exaggeration to say that one of the most exciting predictions of Einstein's theory of gravitation is that there may exist "black holes" putative objects whose gravitational fields are so strong that no physical bodies or signals can break free of their pull and escape. The proof that black holes do exist, and an analysis of their properties, would have a significance going far beyond astrophysics. Indeed, what is involved is not just the discovery of yet another even if extremely remarkable, astro physical object, but a test of the correctness of our understanding of the properties of space and time in extremely strong gravitational fields. Theoretical research into the properties of black holes, and into the possible corol laries of the hypothesis that they exist, has been carried out with special vigor since the beginning of the 1970's. In addition to those specific features of black holes that are important for the interpretation of their possible astrophysical manifestations, the theory has revealed a number of unexpected characteristics of physical interactions involving black holes. By the middle of the 1980's a fairly detailed understanding had been achieved of the properties of the black holes, their possible astrophysical manifestations, and the specifics of the various physical processes involved. Even though a completely reliable detection of a black hole had not yet been made at that time, several objects among those scrutinized by astrophysicists were considered as strong candidates to be confirmed as being black holes."

Introduction to Stellar Winds (Hardcover): Henny J.G.L.M. Lamers, Joseph P. Cassinelli Introduction to Stellar Winds (Hardcover)
Henny J.G.L.M. Lamers, Joseph P. Cassinelli
R3,776 Discovery Miles 37 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This long-awaited graduate textbook, written by two pioneers of the field, is the first to provide a comprehensive introduction to the observations, theories and consequences of stellar winds. The rates of mass loss and the wind velocities are explained from basic physical principles. This book also includes chapters clearly explaining the formation and evolution of interstellar bubbles, and the effects of mass loss on the evolution of high- and low-mass stars. Each topic is introduced simply to explain the basic processes and then developed to provide a solid foundation for understanding current research. This authoritative textbook is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers seeking an understanding of stellar winds and, more generally, supersonic flows from astrophysical objects. It is based on courses taught in Europe and the US over the past twenty years and includes seventy problems (with answers) for coursework or self-study.

The Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies (Paperback, 1998 ed.): Yoshiaki Sofue The Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies (Paperback, 1998 ed.)
Yoshiaki Sofue
R6,116 Discovery Miles 61 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Advanced technologies in astronomy at various wavelengths have provided us with high-resolution and high-quality data of the central regions of nearby galaxies and of the Milky Way Galaxy. These data, both for the Galaxy and extragalactic centers, are now quite suitable for detailed comparative study. This IAU symposium was aimed at understanding the general characteristics of dynamics, ISM physics and magnetic fields, activities including inflow and outflow, as well as starburst, in the `galactic centers'. Special attention was also given to several cases for massive black holes in galaxies and the Galaxy, and to understanding the physics of nuclei associated with black holes.

Starbursts: Triggers, Nature, and Evolution - Les Houches School, September 17-27, 1996 (Paperback, 1998 ed.): Bruno... Starbursts: Triggers, Nature, and Evolution - Les Houches School, September 17-27, 1996 (Paperback, 1998 ed.)
Bruno Guiderdoni, Ajit Kembhavi
R3,142 Discovery Miles 31 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Starbursts are regions of unusually rapid star formation often located in the central parts of galaxies. Recent observational and theoretical developments have emphasized their importance to understand the connection between star formation, the interstellar medium, and the secular evolution of galaxies. In this book, leading experts in the field introduce the basic processes involved in the physics of starbursts, the phenomenological concepts which are used to describe and model their triggering and evolution, and their link to galaxy formation and history. A specific effort is made to start with pedagogical presentations and to review the state-of-the art of the observations and models, emphasizing the recent breakthroughs and the major issues to be explored in the future.

Planetary Nebulae - Proceedings of the 180th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Groningen, The... Planetary Nebulae - Proceedings of the 180th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Groningen, The Netherlands, August, 26-30, 1996 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
Harm J. Habing, Henny J.G.L.M. Lamers
R5,975 Discovery Miles 59 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Planetary nebulae present a fascinating range of shapes and morphologies. They are ideal laboratories for the study of different astrophysical processes: atomic physics, radiative transfer, stellar winds, shocks, wind-wind interaction, and the interaction between stellar winds and the interstellar medium. In addition, planetary nebulae provide information about the late stages of stellar evolution. In the last five years studies of planetary nebulae have progressed very rapidly and new phenomena and insights have been gained. This is partly due to new observations (e.g. from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ISO satellite and new infrared and millimeter spectrographs) and partly to the advancement of hydrodynamic simulations of the structures of planetary nebulae (PN). Many of these new results were reported at IAU Symposium 180 in Groningen, the Netherlands, on August 26 to 30, 1996. This symposium was dedicated to one of the pioneers of PN research: Stuart Pottasch. These proceedings contain chapters on: Introduction to PN with the basic parameters Distances of PN The central stars of PN The envelopes of PN The evolution from AGB to PN The evolution from PN to white dwarfs PN in the galactic context PN in extragalactic systems The future of PN research . The book contains 29 reviews and more than 200 shorter contributions.

Sounding Solar and Stellar Interiors - Proceedings of the 181st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in... Sounding Solar and Stellar Interiors - Proceedings of the 181st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Nice, France, September 30-October 3, 1996 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
Janine Provost, Francois-Xavier Schmider
R1,803 Discovery Miles 18 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ce volume contient les revues invitees et les presentations orales du Symposium VAl 181 Sounding Solar and Stellar Interiors, tenu a Nice du 30 septembre au 3 octobre 1996. Les posters presentes a cette conference 1 sont publies dans un volume separe. Depuis Ie lancement avec succes du satellite SoRO Ie 2 Decembre 1995, et apres des annees d'efforts importants dans Ie domaine de l'helio- et l'asterosismologie, il a semble approprie de tenir un symposium dedie aux consequences de la sismologie pour notre connaissance de la structure in- terne du Soleil et des etoiles. Le but etait de presenter a la communaute entiere les nouveaux resultats de l'heliosismologie obtenus aussi bien par les experiences spatiales que par les reseaux exist ants au sol, ainsi que les avancees theoriques dans les domaines de la structure et de la physique de l'interieur solaire. Ce but a ete largement atteint: alors que SoRO ne fournissait des don- nees que depuis environ 6 mois, la qualite des donnees heliosismologiques a ete largement amelioree, de nouvelles techniques ont ete elaborees comme la "telechronosismologie" (nom propose par D. Gough dans sa conclusion pour l'analyse temps-distance), et de nouveaux mecanismes physiques ont ete proposes pour tenter de reduire les differences persist antes entre Ie Soleil observe et les modeles standard.

Stellar Astrophysics for the Local Group - VIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics (Hardcover, New): A. Aparicio, A.... Stellar Astrophysics for the Local Group - VIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics (Hardcover, New)
A. Aparicio, A. Herrero, F. Sanchez
R5,761 Discovery Miles 57 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With the advent of large, ground-based telescopes and space telescopes, it is now possible to study in detail stars outside our galaxy - in neighbouring galaxies in the so-called Local Group. The VIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics gathered leading experts from around the world to review this exciting area of research - extragalactic stellar astrophysics. This volume presents eight specially written articles based on the meeting, reviewing how the study of stars in nearby galaxies can be used to understand stellar and galactic structure and evolution in general. This book covers all aspects of extragalactic stellar astrophysics: stellar physics, stellar winds, stellar evolution, the use of photometric and spectroscopic techniques for studying extragalactic stars, stellar populations, chemical evolution, star formation histories and the calibration of the extragalactic distance scale. This volume provides graduate students and researchers with an invaluable introduction to and reference on the new subject of extragalactic stellar astrophysics.

Herbig-Haro Flows and the Birth of Low Mass Stars - Proceedings of the 182nd Symposium of the International Astronomical Union,... Herbig-Haro Flows and the Birth of Low Mass Stars - Proceedings of the 182nd Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Chamonix, France, 20-26 January 1997 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
Bo Reipurth, Claude Bertout
R6,166 Discovery Miles 61 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Herbig-Haro objects were discovered 50 years ago, and during this half century they have developed from being mysterious small nebulae to be coming an important phenomenon in star formation. Indeed, HH flows are now recognized not only as fascinating astrophysical laboratories involving shock physics and chemistry, hydrodynamics and radiation processes, but it has gradually been realized that HH flows hold essential clues to the birth and early evolution of low mass stars. IAU Symposium No. 182 on Herbig-Haro Flows and the Birth of Low Mass Stars were held from January 20 to 24, 1997 in Chamonix in the french alps. A total of 178 researchers from 26 countries met to discuss our present level of understanding of Herbig-Haro flows and their relation to disk accretion events and T Tauri winds and other outflow phenomena like molecular outflows, embedded molecular hydrogen flows and radio jets. The present book contains the manuscripts from the oral contributions of the symposium. The poster papers were printed in a separate volume Low Mass Star Formation - from Infall to Outflow, edited by Fabien Malbet and Alain Castets, which was distributed at the beginning of the meeting. Together these two books document the vigorous state and the scientific appeal which research into Herbig-Haro flows and related issues in star formation enjoys today, observationally as well as theoretically."

Advanced Stellar Astrophysics (Hardcover): William K. Rose Advanced Stellar Astrophysics (Hardcover)
William K. Rose
R4,989 Discovery Miles 49 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the past two decades, scientists have made remarkable progress in understanding stars. This graduate-level textbook provides a systematic, self-contained and lucid introduction to the physical processes and fundamental equations underlying all aspects of stellar astrophysics. The timely volume provides authoritative astronomical discussions as well as rigorous mathematical derivations and illuminating explanations of the physical concepts involved. In addition to traditional topics such as stellar interiors and atmospheres, the reader is introduced to stellar winds, mass accretion, nuclear astrophysics, weak interactions, novae, supernovae, pulsars, neutron stars and black holes. A concise introduction to general relativity is also included. At the end of each chapter, exercises and helpful hints are provided to test and develop the understanding of the student. As the first advanced textbook on stellar astrophysics for nearly three decades, this long-awaited volume provides a thorough introduction for graduate students and an up-to-date review for researchers.

Photo-guide to the Constellations - A Self-Teaching Guide to Finding Your Way Around the Heavens (Paperback, Edition.): C.R.... Photo-guide to the Constellations - A Self-Teaching Guide to Finding Your Way Around the Heavens (Paperback, Edition.)
C.R. Kitchin
R1,356 R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Save R236 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There are many books on finding your way round the night sky, but the Photo-guide to the Constellations is unique in showing photographs of how the sky really looks under a variety of different seeing conditions, from city outskirts to the almost-perfect skies deep in the countryside. Along with a detailed step-by-step guide to "star hopping" and other useful techniques, these make this an invaluable guide for all newcomers to astronomy.

Fundamental Stellar Properties: The Interaction Between Observation and Theory - Proceedings of the 189th Symposium of the... Fundamental Stellar Properties: The Interaction Between Observation and Theory - Proceedings of the 189th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held at the Women's College, University of Sydney, Australia, 13-17 January 1997 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
Timothy Russell Bedding, Andrew J. Booth, John M. Davis
R3,251 Discovery Miles 32 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Symposium began with a proposal for a meeting to honour Emer itus Professor Robert Hanbury Brown on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He requested that any such meeting should be on a topic that would be of benefit to the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI) program. With SUSI and several other high angular resolution instruments either in operation or coming on line within the next decade, and with advances in astrometry, spectroscopy and in theoretical models of stellar atmospheres and interiors, it appeared to be both appropriate and timely to hold a symposium on "Fundamental Stellar Properties: the Interaction between Observation and Theory. " The emphasis of the meeting was on the critical assessment of the qual ity, accuracy, and prospects for improvement of the observational data and theoretical models, on the outstanding problems in stellar astrophysics, and on the feasibility of achieving the observational and theoretical advances required for their solution. Invited papers comprised the major part of the oral program and the speakers responded to the challenge issued by the Scientific Organising Committee to critically review the current status and prospects for their area of expertise. The Symposium was opened by the Chancellor of the University of Sydney, Emeritus Professor Dame Leonie Kramer, who welcomed the 126 participants from 22 countries on behalf of the University. The oral program included . 52 invited reviews and papers and 10 contributed papers."

Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics (Hardcover): Fridolin Weber Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics (Hardcover)
Fridolin Weber
R3,620 R2,890 Discovery Miles 28 900 Save R730 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Pulsars, generally accepted to be rotating neutron stars, are dense, neutron-packed remnants of massive stars that blew apart in supernova explosions. They are typically about 10 kilometers across and spin rapidly, often making several hundred rotations per second. Depending on star mass, gravity compresses the matter in the cores of pulsars up to more than ten times the density of ordinary atomic nuclei, thus providing a high-pressure environment in which numerous particle processes, from hyperon population to quark deconfinement to the formation of Boson condensates, may compete with each other. There are theoretical suggestions of even more "exotic" processes inside pulsars, such as the formation of absolutely stable strange quark matter, a configuration of matter even more stable than the most stable atomic nucleus, T56Fe. In the latter event, pulsars would be largely composed of pure quark matter, eventually enveloped in nuclear crust matter. These features combined with the tremendous recent progress in observational radio and x-ray astronomy make pulsars nearly ideal probes for a wide range of physical studies, complementing the quest of the behavior of superdense matter in terrestrial collider experiments. Written by an eminent author, Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics gives a reliable account of the present status of such research, which naturally is to be performed at the interface between nuclear physics, particle physics, and Einstein's theory of relativity.

CO: Twenty-Five Years of Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy - Proceedings of the 170th Symposium of the International Astronomical... CO: Twenty-Five Years of Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy - Proceedings of the 170th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Tucson, Arizona, May 29-June 5, 1995 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
William B. Latter, Simon J. E. Radford, Philip R. Jewell, Jeffrey G. Mangum, John Bally
R4,816 Discovery Miles 48 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Interstellar carbon monoxide (CO) was first detected in 1970 with the 36 foot diameter telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on Kitt Peak in Southern Arizona. R. W. Wilson, K. B. Jefferts, and A. A. Penzias of Bell Labs reported, "We have found intense 2.6 mm line radiation 2 from nine Galactic sources which we attribute to carbon monoxide." Soon afterward, several other basic molecules were also observed in space. IAU Symposium 170, CO: Twenty Five Years of Millimeter Wave Spectroscopy, was organized to commemorate those discoveries. The Symposium reviewed the accomplishments of a quarter century of research on interstellar molec ular gas, surveyed the current state of millimeter-wave spectroscopy, and gave a glimpse of what the next 25 years might hold. Studies of interstellar CO have revolutionized our understanding of the phases and dynamics of the interstellar medium, the initial and final stages of stellar evolution, the chemistry of dense and diffuse interstellar matter and of the solar system, the structure of the Milky Way galaxy, and the content and structure of other galaxies, some very distant. Spectroscopic studies of CO and other molecules are primary tools for investigating all these topics, which are among the most fundamental and active research areas in astrophysics. New developments in instrumentation, including sev eral powerful new telescopes, continue to keep millimeter and submillimeter wavelength radio astronomy at the forefront of research."

Extragalactic Radio Sources - Proceedings of the 175th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Bologna,... Extragalactic Radio Sources - Proceedings of the 175th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Bologna, Italy 10-14 October 1995 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
R. Ekers, C. Fanti, L. Padrielli
R1,746 Discovery Miles 17 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On the 100th anniversary of Marconi's successful experiment on radio broadcasting, 250 astronomers from all over the world met in Bologna (Italy) for five days, to update their knowledge of the physics and statistical properties of powerful extragalactic radio sources. Since their discovery in the fifties enormous progress has been made. The existence of superluminal motions in the cores of radio sources, the presence there of a black hole surrounded by an absorbing dust torus, as inferred mostly from studies at other wavelengths, are now accepted ideas. Nevertheless, in spite of these efforts, there are many questions still unanswered. For instance we do not know which mechanism produces the huge amount of energy supplied to radio sources, how the jets connecting the `engine' to the lobes are formed and collimated, which of the differences observed among the various classes of radio sources are apparent and which are real. These and other related topics are discussed in this book.

Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters - Confrontation of Theory and Observations (Paperback, 1996 ed.): Piet Hut, Junichiro... Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters - Confrontation of Theory and Observations (Paperback, 1996 ed.)
Piet Hut, Junichiro Makino
R4,752 Discovery Miles 47 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume reviews recent progress in the study of dynamics of star clusters. The meeting focused on the enormous progress of both the observation and the theoretical modeling of star clusters. New results from the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope (HST) include the mass function down to the hydrogen burning limits, white dwarf sequence, and central density profiles of `post-collapse' clusters by star counts. On the theoretical side, this symposium saw the first direct evidence of gravothermal oscillation through N-body simulation, which was made possible by GRAPE-4, the dedicated special-purpose computer for N-body simulation. Numerical techniques to combine stellar evolution and dynamical evolution of the cluster were presented. The book will be of primary interest to astrophysicists.

Stellar Surface Structure (Paperback, 1996 ed.): Klaus G. Strassmeier, Jeffrey L. Linsky Stellar Surface Structure (Paperback, 1996 ed.)
Klaus G. Strassmeier, Jeffrey L. Linsky
R6,172 Discovery Miles 61 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the past decade, indirect (Doppler) imaging techniques have opened up a whole new discipline in stellar astronomy, providing increasingly detailed photometric, magnetic, and chemical inhomogeneity images of stellar surfaces. Furthermore, new optical interferometers are already being used with sophisticated interferometer techniques to image stellar surface structures more directly, and in the future the ESO VLT Interferometer and other instruments will extend these capabilities enormously. These developments are highlighted in the first two sections of this book. The large number of recent results, ground-based and space-based, and the lack of a generally accepted dynamo theory with predictive power for the stars and the Sun, result in an ever-growing complexity of interpretation of individual results. The IAU Symposium 176 on Stellar Surface Structure' consequently focused on spatially resolved stellar observations throughout the H-R diagram, from O- and B-stars to late M-stars. Two further sections in this book summarize the current observational data on surface inhomogeneities in stellar photospheres, chromospheres, and coronae. Finally, a special section is devoted to next generation model atmospheres.

The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN (Hardcover): Hermann Hunger, John Steele The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN (Hardcover)
Hermann Hunger, John Steele
R4,556 Discovery Miles 45 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

MUL.APIN, written sometime before the 8th century BC, was the most widely copied astronomical text in ancient Mesopotamia: a compendium including information such as star lists, descriptions of planetary phases, mathematical schemes for the length of day and night, a discussion of the luni-solar calendar and rules for intercalation, and a short collection of celestial omens. This book contains an introductory essay, followed by a new edition of the text and a facing-page transliteration and English translation. Finally, the book contains a new and detailed commentary on the text. This is a fascinating study, and an important resource for anyone interested in the history of astronomy.

Compact Stars in Binaries - Proceedings of the 165th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in the Hague, The... Compact Stars in Binaries - Proceedings of the 165th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in the Hague, The Netherlands, August 15-19, 1994 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
Jan van Paradijs, E.P van den Heuvel, Erik Kuulkers
R5,979 Discovery Miles 59 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

IAU symposium 165 'Compact Stars in Binaries' was held from 15 through 19 August 1994, as part of the 22nd General Assembly of the IAU in The Hague. The symposium, supported by IAU Commissions 35,37,44 and 48, and co-sponsored by Commission 42, was attended by about 400 to 500 participants. This symposium received support from: - The International Astronomical Union; - The Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences; - The Netherlands Ministery of Education and Science; - The Leids Kerkhoven Bosscha Fonds; - The Stichting Fysica. The field of compact stars in binaries is one of the most active areas of present-day astrophysics. An absolute highlight of the last few years was the 1993 Nobel Prize of physics, awarded to Taylor and Hulse for their discovery of the binary pulsar PSR 1913+ 16, and the measurement of the orbital decay of this system due to the emission of gravitational waves. The aim of the organizers of the symposium was to present an overview of the most significant observational discoveries of the past decade, in com bination with a review of the most important theoretical developments. We were very happy that most of the world's leading experts in observation and theory were present at the symposium to review the various aspects of the subject. The contents of their oral presentations are now published in the form of these proceedings, which we expect to become an important source of reference for the coming years.

New Light on Galaxy Evolution - Proceedings of the 171st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Heidelberg,... New Light on Galaxy Evolution - Proceedings of the 171st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Heidelberg, Germany, June 26-30, 1995 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
Ralph Bender, Roger L. Davies
R1,683 Discovery Miles 16 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The study of the evolution of galaxies has made remarkable progress in recent years and is currently undergoing a transformation arising from the application of new observational and theoretical tools. Twenty-one invited reviews, twenty-six contributed papers and 137 poster papers cover the wide variety of recent developments, present new insights and demonstrate the rapid increase in our knowledge about galaxy evolution and formation.

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