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Solar-Type Activity in Main-Sequence Stars
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 129.99Solar-type activity over the whole range of the electromagnetic spectrum is a phenomenon inherent in the majority of low- and moderate-mass main sequence stars. In this monograph observational results are summarized in a systematic and comprehensive fashion. The analysis of the various manifestations of such stellar activity leads to the identification... more...
New Light on Dark Stars
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 109.99Presents a review of both the astrophysical nature of individual red dwarf and brown dwarf stars and their collective statistical properties as an important Galactic stellar population. This edition contains chapters that deal with the topics such as observational properties of low-mass dwarfs, the stellar mass function and extrasolar planets. more...
Neutrinos and Explosive Events in the Universe
Springer 2006; US$ 84.99Contains the Lectures and selected participant contributions to the 14th Course of the International School of Cosmic Rays Astrophysics. This work discusses different aspects of the generation of high energy signals in powerful astrophysical objects concentrating on the production of neutrinos and gamma rays from high energy particle interactions. more...
The Electromagnetic Spectrum of Neutron Stars
Springer 2006; US$ 79.99Features the lectures presented in the 6th NATO-ASI series entitled in Marmaris, Turkey, on 7-18 June 2004. This volume includes information from the neutron stars, namely neutrino and gravitational radiation along with the electromagnetic spectrum. It serves as a graduate level text including the range of properties of neutron stars. more...
Scientific detectors for astronomy 2005
Springer 2006; US$ 179.99Covers a range of detector technologies including CCDs, CMOS, APDs, and sub-mm detectors. This work includes papers on observatory status and plans, special applications, detector testing and characterization, and electronics. A feature of these proceedings is the inclusion of pedagogical overview papers. more...
The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop
Springer 2008; US$ 119.99The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration workshop brought together more than 120 participants with the objective to a) foster the sharing of information, experience and techniques between observers, instrument developers and instrument operation teams, b) review the actual precision and limitations of the applied instrument calibration plans, and c) collect... more...
High Energy Radiation from Black Holes
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 87.50Bright gamma-ray flares observed from sources far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy are best explained if enormous amounts of energy are liberated by black holes. The highest- energy particles in nature--the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays--cannot be confined by the Milky Way's magnetic field, and must originate from sources outside our Galaxy. Understanding... more...
An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution
World Scientific Publishing Company 2004; US$ 36.40Over the last decade the physics of black holes has been revolutionized by developments that grew out of Jacob Bekenstein's realization that black holes have entropy. Steven Hawking raised profound issues concerning the loss of information in black hole evaporation and the consistency of quantum mechanics in a world with gravity. more...
Joint Evolution of Black Holes and Galaxies
CRC Press 2006; US$ 189.95Black holes are among the most mysterious objects that the human mind has been capable of imagining. As pure mathematical constructions, they are tools for exploiting the fundamental laws of physics. As astronomical sources, they are part of our cosmic landscape, warping space-time, coupled to the large-scale properties and life cycle of their host... more...









