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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The Invisible Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy
The last two chapters of the book present Eshelby's sophisticated theory in a didactically accessible way, knowledge of ...
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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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The Moon that Wasn’t : The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite
This book details the history of one of astronomy’s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. First spotted in 1645, ...
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The Multi-Messenger Approach to Unidentified Gamma Ray Sources
This book provides a theoretical and observational overview of the state of the art of gamma-ray astrophysics, and their ...
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The Music of the Big Bang : The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology
Most cosmological information is encoded in the cosmic background radiation by acoustic oscillations in the dense plasma ...
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The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Recent Scientific Results and 2nd Generation Instrumentation : Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 4-8 April 2005
Long-baseline interferometry has been traditionally regarded as a very technical method with a limited number of applications. ...
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The Scientific Legacy of Beppo Occhialini
The present volume is a collection of reviews, essays and personal reminiscences on Occhialini's scientific life and work. ...
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The Story of Space Station Mir
This successor edition picks up the story where the first edition left off in 1997, and runs through to Mir’s de-orbiting ...
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The Sun : A User's Manual
The Sun is an account of the many ways in which our nearest star affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the ...
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The Universe Before the Big Bang : Cosmology and String Theory
Terms such as "expanding Universe", "big bang", and "initial singularity", are nowadays part of our common language. ...
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The Universe in X-Rays
In the last 45 years, X-ray astronomy has become an integral part of modern astrophysics and cosmology. There is a wide range ...
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Topics in Strangeness Nuclear Physics
This set of extensive lectures presents a balanced theoretical and experimental introduction to, and survey of, the field, ...
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Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets
In the last two decades of the 20th century, we obtained our first detailed look at a cometary nucleus and detected objects ...
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Turbulence, Dynamos, Accretion Disks, Pulsars and Collective Plasma Processes : First Kodai-Trieste Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics Held at the Kodaikanal Observatory Kodaikanal, India, August 27 – September 7, 2007
It is well established and appreciated by now that more than 99% of the baryonic matter in the universe is in the plasma ...
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Zdenek Kopals Binary Star Legacy
Professor Kopal, who devoted 60 years of his scientific life to the exploration of close binary systems, initiated a breakthrough ...
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