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Astrophysics Update 2

"Astrophysics Updates" is intended to serve the information needs of professional astronomers and postgraduate students ...

Celestial Mechanics

Contents are divided into major topics where the three "souls" of modern celestial mechanics (dynamical systems, Solar ...

Chaos and Stability in Planetary Systems

This book is intended as an introduction to the field of planetary systems at the postgraduate level. It consists of four ...

Exoplanets : Detection, Formation, Properties, Habitability

This edited, multi-author volume will be an invaluable introduction and reference to all key aspects in the field of exoplanet ...

Extrasolar Planets

Research on extrasolar planets is one of the exciting fields of activity in astrophysics, from early speculations on the ...

Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites

Imagine the unique experience of being the very first person to hold a newly-found meteorite in your hand – a rock from ...

Geology and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets

This book has resulted from a workshop at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland (5-9 September ...

Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak and Micro

The up-to-date contributions in this book are based on the lecture notes of the 33rd Saas–Fee Advanced Course of the Swiss ...

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy in Astronomy

Two specialized new instruments for ESO's VLT, VISIR and CRIRES, spawned the idea for this workshop. CRIRES is a dedicated ...

Introduction to Planetary Science

This textbook is intended to be used in a lecture course for college students majoring in the Earth Sciences. Planetary ...

Mercury

Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, is different in several respects from the other three terrestrial planets. In appearance, ...

Multiple Stars Across the H-R Diagram : Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 12-15 July 2005

Stars show a marked tendency to be in systems of different multiplicity, ranging from simple binaries and triples to globular ...

New Light on Dark Stars

There has been very considerable progress in research into low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets during the ...

Planet Mars : Story of Another World

This book goes to the heart of current planetological research, and illustrates it with many beautiful images. The authors ...

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 ...

Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes

For us to keep the Sun shining, we must first change our attitudes. We must put profit and short-term thinking aside. And ...

Solar System Astrophysics : Planetary Atmospheres and the Outer Solar System

Solar System Astrophysics opens with coverage of the atmospheres, ionospheres and magnetospheres of the Earth, Venus and ...

Solar System Update

This book, the first in a series of forthcoming volumes, consists of topical and timely reviews of a number of carefully ...

State of the Universe 2008 : New Images, Discoveries, and Events

Provides an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be published every September. The book ...

Strategies of Life Detection

The search for life outside the Earth has been one of mankind's most challenging quests. We have reached a level of technology ...

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