After three decades of intense research in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, the time was ripe to summarize basic knowledge ...
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The raw numbers of high-energy-density physics are amazing: shock waves at hundreds of km/s (approaching a million km per ...
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This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad ...
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This book collects the Proceedings of the Workshop "Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie (IFAE) 2007, Napoli, 11-13 April ...
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Ice, Rock, and Beauty is a book for anybody who lives in the solar neighborhood, and takes an interest in its significance ...
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Astronomy in Rome has always been there, but a little hidden: it was in the palaces, in the churches or, better, above the ...
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The development of new scintillators as components of modern detector systems is increasingly defined by the end user's ...
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"Well, it’s not rocket science, is it?" How many times have you heard people use that expression when they mean something ...
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This volume contains the edited lecture notes of the Second JETSET School on Jets from Young Stars: Clues from High Angular ...
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An analysis of Newton's ideas dismisses this hypothesis by the simple fact that the Principia sought to demonstrate the ...
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Cosmic microwave background radiation is the residue of the great heat following the Big Bang. A tenuous sign, over 13 billion ...
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Lasers and Nuclei describes the generation of high-energy-particle radiation with high-intensity lasers and its application ...
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presents theoretical physics with a breathtaking array of examples and anecdotes. Basdevant's style is clear and stimulating, ...
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Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) studies the interaction between the flow of an electrically conducting fluid and magnetic fields. ...
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This is a proceedings book of the symposium "Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies" held on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, ...
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Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, is different in several respects from the other three terrestrial planets. In appearance, ...
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"During the past half century meteor research has evolved into a comprehensive multidisciplinary science … . New findings ...
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This book gives a comprehensive account of both the history and current achievements of molecular beam research. In 1919, ...
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Stars show a marked tendency to be in systems of different multiplicity, ranging from simple binaries and triples to globular ...
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Nearly one half of the point-like gamma-ray sources detected by EGRET instrument of the late Compton satellite are still ...
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