Bücher der Reihe Astrophysics and Space Science Library

The authors describe the design and construction of major radio telescopes as those in Dwingeloo, Jodrell Bank, Parkes, Effelsberg and Green Bank since 1950 up to the present as well as millimeter wavelength telescopes as the 30m MRT of IRAM in Spain, the 50m LMT in Mexico and the ALMA submillimeter instrument.

Celestial Shadows

This volume is designed as an introductory text and reference book for graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of astronomy, astrodynamics, satellite systems, space sciences and astrophysics.

The papers presented in this book examine in detail the historical, cosmological, philosophical and theological issues surrounding the development of the Big Bang theory from its beginnings in the pioneering work of Lemaitre through to the modern day.This book offers the best account in English of Lemaitre's life and work.

Exploring the History of New Zealand Astronomy

The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. It describes all layers of neutron stars, from the surface to the core, with the emphasis on their structure and equation of state.

Here is an account of the life and work of Thomas Gold, one of the most remarkable astrophysicists in the second half of the 20th century. Based on Gold's autobiography, this book is edited by the Cambridge astrophysicist and science historian Simon Mitton.

Then the revolution occurred: we acquired the centimetric eyes, the mil limetric eyes, the infrared eyes, the ultraviolet eyes, the X-ray eyes and the ,-ray eyes. Short durations and small scales demanded employing a discipline with similar attributes - the discipline of Plasmas and Fluids - known more for its complexity than for its felicity.

A historical sketch of the study of beat Cepheids, first known for their variable amplitudes, is given as an introduction to the book. This introduction clearly demonstrates how complicated the study of variable stars can be, and therefore challenges and invites the reader to study the entire book.

Proceedings of the 1999 Pacific Rim Conference

th The 4 ESO CCO Workshop, Optical Detectors for Astronomy, was held during September 13-16, 1999 at its usual location, the headquarters of the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany.

This unusual book considers physical principles, starting from the most general ones, and simplifies assumptions, helping students answer two key questions: what approximation is the simplest, but still sufficient for the description of a phenomenon in cosmic plasmas, and how to build an adequate model.

Proceedings of the Summerschool and Workshop held at the Solar Observatory Kanzelhoehe, Karnten, Austria, September 1-12, 1997

Provides a set of images of Local Group Galaxies and shows the important objects, including many thousands of individual stars and interstellar objects. This atlas is useful for researchers, students and amateur astronomers to identify and study the various components of the nearly 30 important galaxies.

Reorganising the research activities after the war was no minor under taking, specially because communications were interrupted for over five years and isolated continental Europe from overseas activities.

Proceedings of the Strasbourg Observatory Colloquium held at Strasbourg, France, June 3-6, 1984

at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1997 and at the Hong Kong University in 1999. We approached Professor Tan Lu of Nanjing University and Professor Tipei Li of the Institute of High Energy Physics about hosting a con ference in China.

Seated in a sun-lit corner of his 17th century Dutch house, his hand touching a celestial globe, Johannes Vermeer's "Astronomer" seems to pon der about the mysteries of the universe.

Since very early times Sirius was a point of attraction in the night sky. Astronomically, Sirius is a very bright star. This book collects the published information on Sirius in an attempt to derive a coherent picture of how this system came to look as it does.

Werking Head, Attitude Determination and Control Section National Aeronautics and Space Administration/ Goddard Space Flight Center Extensiye work has been done for many years in the areas of attitude determination, attitude prediction, and attitude control.

While its basic content and the structure of the chapters are the same, important new topics have been added, including the extrasolar planetary systems, transneptunian objects. More emphasis has given to the solar system, whereas geophysical topics have been left at a less advanced level.

This occurs in a wide variety of ways, including magnetic stellar and orbital coupling, magnetic channelling of accretion streams, magnetic stellar coupling to accretion discs, dynamo field coupling in discs, and magnetic stellar and disc winds.

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Institute on Physics of the Solar Corona, held in Cavouri-Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece, 6-17 September 1970

Proceedings of the 56th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union held in Warsaw, Poland, September 8-12, 1980

Proceedings of the Symposium on Interstellar Processes Held at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A., during July 1986

Oftentimes, however, the supermassive black holes that lie at the centers of AGN are cocooned in gas and dust that absorb the emitted low energy X-rays and the optical and ultraviolet light, hiding the black hole from view at these wavelengths.

Searching for water in the universe is central to our search for extraterrestrial life, and vitally important in topics such as astrophysics and astrobiology. This book examines water's physical properties as well as our progress in finding it in outer space.

Presenting a collection of reviews covering the following constituents of the interstellar medium: dust, molecular gas, neutral atomic hydrogen, ionized hydrogen, and hot gas, and covering the abundances of heavy elements in the interstellar medium and the role of star formation, this title is useful for professional scientists in this field.