Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics : Proceedings of the ESO/Lisbon/Aveiro Conference held in Aveiro, Portugal, 11–15 September 2006
High-accuracy Doppler shift measurements and high-precision spectroscopy are primary techniques in the search for exo-planets. Further ...
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Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles
The scattering of electromagnetic radiation by nonspherical particles has become an increasingly important research topic ...
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Science with Adaptive Optics
The field of Adaptive Optics (AO) for astronomy has matured in recent years, and diffraction-limited image resolution in ...
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Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array : A New Era for Astrophysics
This book describes the enormous capabilities of ALMA, the state of the project, and most notably the scientific prospects ...
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Sirius : Brightest Diamond in the Night Sky
Sirius - A Diamond in the Night will tell two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been ...
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Sirius Matters
Since very early times Sirius was a point of attraction in the night sky. It served to synchronize calendars in antiquity ...
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Solar Journey: The Significance of our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth
Humans evolved when the Sun was in the great void of the Local Bubble. The Sun entered the present environment of interstellar ...
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Solar Sails :A Novel Approach To Interplanetary Travel
This book describes solar sails, how they work and what they will be used for in the exploration of space in an easily readable ...
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Solar, Stellar and Galactic Connections between Particle Physics and Astrophysics
This book collects extended and specialized reviews on topics linking astrophysics and particle physics at a level intermediate ...
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Solar-Type Activity in Main-Sequence Stars
Solar-type activity over the whole range of the electromagnetic spectrum is a phenomenon inherent in the majority of low- ...
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Spectroscopy: The Key to the Stars
This book assumes only a basic knowledge of physics but looks in detail at many topics, including energy levels in atoms, ...
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Star Clusters and How to Observe Them
Part one of this detailed book provides a comprehensive review of star clusters – including open, globular, extragalactic, ...
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Starbursts
Starbursts are important features of early galaxy evolution. Many of the distant, high-redshift galaxies we are able to detect ...
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Supernovae and How to Observe Them
Supernovae mark the deaths of massive stars or of white dwarfs in binary systems. Even when they occur in galaxies millions ...
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The Cambridge N-Body Lectures
Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society, this volume contains a set of extensive school tested lectures, ...
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The Composition of Matter
This volume consists of papers developed from a joint ACE/ISSI symposium on the "Composition of Matter" honoring the occasion ...
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The Diabetic Kidney
In The Diabetic Kidney, a stellar group of international researchers and clinicians joins forces to independently survey ...
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The Electromagnetic Spectrum of Neutron Stars
This book is devoted to the selected lectures presented in the 6th NATO-ASI series entitled "The Electromagnetic Spectrum ...
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The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle
This book presents the evolution of the heliosphere through an entire solar activity cycle. The last solar cycle (cycle 23) ...
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The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later
The Book contains the proceedings of a Conference intended to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the IMF ...
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