Bücher der Reihe Astrophysics and Space Science Library

Unresolved problems of radiation hazard prediction and spacecraft protection, radiation experiments on board the spacecraft, estimating of radiation conditions during interplanetary missions.

The diverse and often surprising new facts about planetary rings and comet environments that were reported by the interplanetary missions oflate 1970s - 1980s stimulated investigations of the so-called dusty plasma.

Under the Radar chronicles the life of Ruby Payne-Scott, the first female radio astronomer. Payne-Scott's major role in the design of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is discussed, as well as her major contributions to radio astronomy field.

This volume is the outgrowth of several international meetings to discuss a vision for the future of solar radio physics: the development of a new radio instrument.

This book provides overviews of the new reduction as well as on the use of the Hipparcos data in a variety of astrophysical implementations. The Hipparcos data provide a unique opportunity for the study of satellite dynamics as the orbit covered a wide range of altitudes, showing in detail the different torques acting on the satellite.

In this volume a thorough review is given of waves in dusty plasmas, a fascinating new domain combining plasmas and charged dust, two omnipresent ingredients of the Universe.

Exploring the decisive steps taken by Anaximander of Miletus, this book details the transition from the archaic cosmological world-picture of a flat earth with a celestial vault to the Western world-picture of a free floating earth in an infinite universe.

Coronal Mass Ejections provides an introduction to the solar coronal mass ejection phenomena. Readers will find a discussion of both corona and interplanetary coronal mass ejections, while learning how to detect and extract data from them.

This book reexamines the validity of theoretical models, based on a diversity of experimental data resulting from new observational techniques, to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the fine structure of solar radio bursts.

Produced by experts in the field, this treatise applies the fundamentals of Jacobi dynamics to the physical properties of the bodies in the solar system. It offers material to researchers in various branches of astronomy, geophysics, planetology and cosmogony.

This book provides overviews of the new reduction as well as on the use of the Hipparcos data in a variety of astrophysical implementations. The Hipparcos data provide a unique opportunity for the study of satellite dynamics as the orbit covered a wide range of altitudes, showing in detail the different torques acting on the satellite.

The problem of cosmic ray (CR) geomagnetic effects came to the fore at the beg- ning of the 1930s after the famous expeditions by J.

This book reviews the approach to the kinetic simulation of nonequilib rium processes in the planetary atmospheres which the authors developed and dealt with since the 1970s.

These include comprehensive articles by leaders in fields extending from stellar atmospheres through properties of the stellar component in the Milky Way up to the stellar environment in high redshift galaxies.The wide coverage of astrophysical themes makes this volume very valuable for researchers and Ph.D.

The emphasis on white dwarf stars and cosmology arise from the advances in cosmological and galactic structure research in which these stars play a prominent role. Aimed at graduate students and scientific professionals, this book includes reviews focusing on four areas: white dwarf supernovae, cosmology, accretion physics and galactic structure.

Gamma-ray astronomy has also proved to be a powerful tool for cosmology imposing constraints to the background photon fields that can absorb the gamma-ray flux from dis tant sources.

Magnetic fields are responsible for much of the variability and structuring in the universe, but only on the Sun can the basic magnetic field related processes be explored in detail.

The diverse and often surprising new facts about planetary rings and comet environments that were reported by the interplanetary missions oflate 1970s - 1980s stimulated investigations of the so-called dusty plasma.

Polarization Spectroscopy of Ionized Gases describes the physical principles of the technique and its applications to remote sensing. Universal spectropolarimetric remote sensing has been applied to low pressure gas discharges in the laboratory and to non-thermal processes in the solar atmosphere.

Modulational Interactions in Plasmas is the first book to present all the basic considerations relevant to the topic. plasma heating and current drive, physical phenomena in active geophysical and space experiments, interactions of r.f.

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

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.

The multielement systems have been widely used in many fields of astron omy and radio science in the last decades. The ground-based optical and radio interferometers, gamma-ray and X-ray or bital telescopes, antenna arrays of radio telescopes and also some other radio devices belong to scientific instruments using multielement systems.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Light Pollution, La Serena, Chile, held 5-7 March 2002

Unresolved problems of radiation hazard prediction and spacecraft protection, radiation experiments on board the spacecraft, estimating of radiation conditions during interplanetary missions.

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.

This biography conveys the life and accomplishments of a Norwegian hero to the English speaking world, illustrating the beginnings of collaboration between science and industry. It shows how work in a small country laid the foundation for the green revolution.