Lee Hartmann

Bernard F. Burke, Francis Graham-Smith

Dina Prialnik

Ten Years of Exploitation of the Hipparcos Satellite Data

Michael Perryman

James E. Pringle, Andrew King

Almost all conventional matter in the Universe is fluid, and fluid dynamics plays a crucial role in astrophysics. This new ...

The Physics of Astronomical Phenomena

Hale Bradt

Bridging the gap between physics and astronomy textbooks, this book provides physical explanations of twelve fundamental astrophysical processes underlying a ...

Arnab Rai Choudhuri

Philip Armitage

Edited by Michael F. Bode, Aneurin Evans

In recent years knowledge of nova phenomena has grown significantly due to the advent of new observational facilities, both on ...

A History of Early Radio Astronomy

Woodruff T. Sullivan

Peter S. Conti, Paul A. Crowther, Claus Leitherer

Paul M. Bellan

This rigorous explanation of plasmas is relevant to diverse plasma applications such as controlled fusion, astrophysical plasmas, solar physics, magnetospheric ...

An Introduction

Linda S. Sparke, John S. Gallagher, III

This extensively illustrated book presents the astrophysics of galaxies since their beginnings in the early Universe. It has been thoroughly ...

Pankaj S. Joshi

The final fate of a massive star when it collapses under its own gravity at the end of its life ...

From Pop III and GRBs to the Milky Way

Edited by Mario Livio, Eva Villaver

David Flower

A comprehensive manual for studying the collisional and radiative processes observed in the interstellar medium, this second edition has been ...

Principles, Calculation and Applications of Low-Energy Reactions

Ian J. Thompson, Filomena M. Nunes

Bernard E. J. Pagel

Reinhard Meinel, Marcus Ansorg, Andreas Kleinwächter, Gernot Neugebauer, David Petroff

Sean Ryan, Andrew Norton

Edited by Gilles Chabrier

John H. Thomas, Nigel O. Weiss

Edited by Jordi Cepa

Edited by Garik Israelian, Georges Meynet

Recent observations of metal-rich regions have shown that stars hosting giant planets are generally metal-rich. This has led to the ...

Leon Golub, Jay M. Pasachoff

Andrea Milani, Giovanni Gronchi

Kenneth J. H. Phillips, Uri Feldman, Enrico Landi

The ultraviolet and X-ray spectra of the solar atmosphere are fundamental to the understanding of the Sun’s atmosphere, providing valuable ...

Bernard Schutz

Edited by Jean-Claude Pecker, Jayant Narlikar

What are the current ideas describing the large scale structure of the universe? How do they relate to the observed ...

Maurizio Gasperini

The first book dedicated to string cosmology, it contains an authoritative introduction to the basic notions of the subject. It ...

Jayant Narlikar, Geoffrey Burbidge

A thought-provoking insight into the evolution of cosmology for undergraduate students and general readers, this book shows that the mystery ...

Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Gravitational Radiation, Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Burst Supernovae takes the reader through the theory of gravitational radiation and rotating ...

Black Holes in the Universe

Mitchell C. Begelman, Martin Rees

Lewis Ryder

A Guided Tour for Graduate Students

Michael Stone, Paul Goldbart

Essential Science in the Final Years of the Hubble Space Telescope

Edited by Mario Livio, Stefano Casertano

With the Hubble Space Telepscope’s next servicing mission still uncertain, identifying the most crucial science to be performed by this ...

Robert Lambourne

Jose Wudka

Space-Time, Relativity and Cosmology provides a historical introduction to modern relativistic cosmology. The topics are presented in a non-mathematical manner, ...

Formation, Evolution, Interactions

Krzysztof Bolejko, Andrzej Krasiński, Charles Hellaby, Marie-Noëlle Célérier

Astronomical Molecules from the Big Bang to Exploding Stars

T. W. Hartquist, D. A. Williams

Molecules in the early Universe acted as natural temperature regulators, keeping the primordial gas cool and, in turn, allowing galaxies ...

Ruth Durrer

Recent analysis of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has given us valuable insights into our Universe and its parameters. Examining ...

For the Twenty-First Century

Gordon Fraser

Pavel D. Naselsky, Dmitry I. Novikov, Igor D. Novikov

Spectacular observational breakthroughs by recent experiments, and particularly the WMAP satellite, have heralded a new epoch of CMB science. Taking ...