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High-Velocity Cloudsby H. van Woerden
Springer 2004; US$ 149.00This book contains 17 chapters reviewing our knowledge of the high-velocity clouds (HVCs) as of 2004, bringing this together in one place for the first time. Each of the many different aspects of HVC research is addressed by one of the experts in that subfield. These include a historical overview of HVC research and analyses of the structure and kinematics of HVCs. Separate chapters address the intermediate-velocity clouds, the Magellanic Stream, and neutral hydrogen HVCs discovered in external galaxies. Reviews are presented of the Ha emission and of optical and UV absorption-line studies, followed by discussions of the hot Galactic Halo and of the interactions between HVCs and their surroundings. Four chapters summarize the ideas about... more...
Dust In The Universeby K. S. Krishna Swamy
World Scientific 2005; US$ 75.40The study of dust in the universe is an exciting area in current astronomy. Dust formed during an earlier epoch could be different from that formed at a later time, but the nature and composition of dust is not presently understood in its entirety. The comprehensive study presented in this book provides a much needed critical analysis of different types of dust in the universe. The information derived from presolar grains from comets, meteorites and interplanetary dust particles as well as the relevant laboratory studies are discussed. This should help in our goal of understanding the evolution of dust with cosmic time. more...
Dark Matter In The Universeby John Bahcall; Tsvi Piran; Steven Weinberg
World Scientific 2004; US$ 101.40If standard gravitational theory is correct, then most of the matter in the universe is in an unidentified form which does not emit enough light to have been detected by current instrumentation. This book is the second editon of the lectures given at the 4th Jerusalem Winter School for Theoretical Physics, with new material added. The lectures are devoted to the "missing matter" problem in the universe, the search to understand dark matter. The goal of this volume is to make current research work on unseen matter accessible to students without prior experience in this area and to provide insights for experts in related research fields. Due to the pedagogical nature of the original lectures and the intense discussions between the lecturers and... more...
Dark Sky, Dark Matterby J.M Overduin
CRC Press 2002; US$ 169.95This text compares observational data from large telescopes with cosmological theory based on general relativity and particle physics. The authors attempt to provide a more accurate picture of the universe and the exotic material believed to constitute dark matter. more...
The Physics of Interstellar Dustby Endrik Krugel
CRC Press 2002; US$ 179.95A theoretical description of the fundamental physics of interstellar material. Includes description of composition, morphology, grain size and distribution, dynamics, dielectric permeability, radiation scattering and spectral features. more...
Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physicsby Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus; Richard Arnowitt
Springer 2006; US$ 389.00The search for dark matter in the universe has established itself as one of the most exciting and central fields of astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology. The lectures and talks in this book emphasize the experimental and theoretical status and future perspectives, stressing in particular the interplay between astro and particle physics. more...
The Dark Universeby Mario Livio
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 42.00This timely volume presents especially written articles by a host of world experts working on all aspects of dark matter and theories of gravity. This is an indispensable collection of review articles for researchers and graduate students. more...
In Search of Dark Matterby Ken Freeman; Geoff McNamara
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2006; US$ 44.95Presents the story of the emergence of the dark matter problem, from the initial erroneous discovery of dark matter to contemporary explanations for the nature of dark matter and its role in the origin and evolution of the Universe. This account spans a variety of scientific disciplines, from observational astronomy to particle physics. more...
Stardust From Meteoritesby Maria Lugaro
World Scientific 2005; US$ 57.00The study of presolar meteoritic grains is a new inter-disciplinary field that brings together topics from nuclear physics to astronomy and chemistry. Traditionally, most of the information about the cosmos has been gathered by observing light through telescopes. However, with the recent discovery that some dust grains extracted from primitive meteorites were produced in stellar environments, we now have the opportunity to gather information about stars and our Galaxy from the laboratory analysis of tiny pieces of stardust. Stellar grains represent a unique and fascinating subject of study. Their analysis is a breakthrough in research on stellar nucleosynthesis and the origin of the elements. While a number of specialized reviews exist on the... more...
Frontiers in Dusty Plasmasby Y. Nakamura; T. Yokota; P.K. Shukla
Elsevier 2000; US$ 270.00The study of dusty plasmas is now in a vigorous state of development. Dust and plasma coexist in a vast variety of cosmic environments and their research received a major boost in the early 80's with the Voyager spacecraft observations of peculiar features in the Saturnian ring system (e.g. the radial spokes) which could not be explained purely in gravitational terms. In addition, dust streams were measured by the Galileo spacecraft in the Jovian magnetosphere and charged dust in the earth's mesosphere was detected by a direct rocket experiment. Since then the area has greatly expanded with dedicated laboratory experiments verifying aspects of basic physics of charged dust grains in plasmas. These proceedings contain invited and poster papers... more...









