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978-1-4020-6941-3
A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure

The reviews presented in this volume cover a wide-range of cluster of galaxies topics like the physics of the ICM gas, the ...

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978-3-540-30313-8
Astrophysics Update 2

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

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978-3-540-34136-9
Chemical Abundances and Mixing in Stars in the Milky Way and its Satellites

The proceedings of this book cover topics from chemical abundances in the different components of the Milky Way and in local ...

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978-0-387-78875-3
Clusters of Galaxies : Beyond the Thermal View

Clusters of galaxies are the largest structures in the Universe. Most of the visible matter is in the form of hot gas permeating ...

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978-1-4020-5425-9
Diffuse Matter from Star Forming Regions to Active Galaxies

In this volume dedicated to him, introductory reviews to a number of the key processes and to the sources themselves are ...

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978-1-84628-699-5
Galaxies and How to Observe Them

Satisfies the need for a modern, comprehensive review in combining the three major aspects: the physical background on the ...

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978-1-84628-671-1
Galaxies in Turmoil

Active galaxies involve some of the most extreme conditions and some of the most intriguing phenomena found anywhere in the ...

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978-1-4020-6933-8
Galaxies in the Local Volume

Studies of Nearby Galaxies are currently the focus of many observations and numerical simulations. This book presents an ...

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978-3-540-73478-9
Galaxy Formation

This second edition of Galaxy Formation is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology, expounding the structure of the ...

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978-3-540-71173-5
Groups of Galaxies in the Nearby Universe

In the cosmological context, groups trace large-scale structures better than clusters, and the evolution of groups and clusters ...

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978-3-540-31606-0
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 ...

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978-1-4020-3236-3
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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978-3-540-74713-0
Relativistic Astrophysics Legacy and Cosmology – Einstein’s

The year 2005, which marked the 100th anniversary of the 'annus mirabilis', the year in which Albert Einstein published ...

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978-3-540-73491-8
Science Perspectives for 3D Spectroscopy ; Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 10-14 October 2005

This volume contains the proceedings of possibly the last conference ever on integral-field spectroscopy. The contributors ...

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978-1-4020-6935-2
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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978-0-387-68817-6
State of the Universe 2007

The book cover all major astronomical news on topics beyond the Solar System and place them in the context of the longer ...

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978-0-387-68125-2
The Herschel Objects, and How to Observe Them

Deep-sky observers are always on the lookout for new observing challenges. The Herschel Objects, and How to Observe them ...

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978-0-387-68360-7
The Invisible Universe : The Story of Radio Astronomy

This is the story of radio astronomy, of how radio waves are generated by stars, supernova, quasars, colliding galaxies, ...

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978-1-4020-4526-4
The Many Scales in the Universe

The book gathers the invited talks to the XIII JENAM conference, organized this time by the European Astronomical Society ...

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