Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context
Supermassive black holes are now believed to play an important role in the evolution of the Universe. Every respectable galaxy ...
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Heating versus Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
The present volume is the record of a recent topical conference on the interplay between heating and cooling processes in ...
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High-Velocity Clouds
On the occasion of the retirement of Ulrich Schwarz, a symposium was held in Groningen in May of 1996, celebrating his contributions ...
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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics IV
This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad ...
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How does the Galaxy Work?
"This volume presents a multi-disciplinary approach to the physical mechanisms which structure the shape, evolution and ...
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ISO Science Legacy
This book recounts results obtained via the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) on comets, in the close environment of pre-main ...
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Intelligent Life in the Universe
This book addresses the possible origins, development and fate of intelligent life in the universe. The author presents a ...
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Island Universes : Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies
This book contains an up-to-date review of the structure and evolution of disk galaxies from both the observational and theoretical ...
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Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies
This is a proceedings book of the symposium "Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies" held on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, ...
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Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution
The possibilities of astronomical observation have dramatically increased over the last decade. Major satellites, like the ...
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Origins : How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe Began
The biggest questions in astronomy are those of how the planets, stars, galaxies, and the Universe were formed. ORIGINS describes ...
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Particle Physics and Cosmology: The Interface
Introduces the experimental and theoretical particle physics background underlying several aspects of cosmology: matter anti-matter ...
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Parting the Cosmic Veil
Astronomers have used telescopes, operating at the visible wavelengths that we see with our eye, to reveal the true extent ...
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Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei at all Scales
This book contains a collection of lecture notes written by recognized experts in the field of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). ...
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Planetary Nebulae Beyond the Milky Way
This book contains the proceedings of a workshop held at ESO headquarters in Garching in 2004, the first meeting devoted ...
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Recollections of "Tucson Operations"
This book is a personal account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. ...
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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 ...
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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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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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