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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Parution : 2015-11-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Lunar and Planetary Cartography in Russia
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This book is the first to document in depth the history of lunar and planetary cartography in Russia. The first map of the far side of the Moon was made with the participation of Lomonosov Moscow University (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, MSU) in 1960. The developed...

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Parution : 2015-10-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Galactic Bulges
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This book consists of invited reviews on Galactic Bulges written by experts in the field. A central point of the book is that, while in the standard picture of galaxy formation a significant amount of the baryonic mass is expected to reside in classical bulges, the...

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Télécharger le livre :  François Arago
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François Arago, the first to show in 1810 that the surface of the Sun and stars is made of incandescent gas and not solid or liquid, was a prominent physicist of the 19th century. He used his considerable influence to help Fresnel, Ampere and others develop their ideas...

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Parution : 2015-09-08
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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 :  Giants of Eclipse: The ? Aurigae Stars and Other Binary Systems
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The zeta Aurigae stars are the rare but illustrious sub-group of binary stars that undergo the dramatic phenomenon of "chromospheric eclipse". This book provides detailed descriptions of the ten known systems, illustrates them richly with examples of new spectra, and...

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Parution : 2014-12-30
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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...

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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 :  Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments
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In this book an international group of specialists discusses studies of exoplanets subjected to extreme stellar radiation and plasma conditions. It is shown that such studies will help us to understand how terrestrial planets and their atmospheres, including the early...

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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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Télécharger le livre :  Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe
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This book presents the status of research on very massive stars in the Universe. While it has been claimed that stars with over 100 solar masses existed in the very early Universe, recent studies have also discussed the existence and deaths of stars up to 300 solar...

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Parution : 2014-10-25
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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,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-07-08
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