Astrophysics

Essential Relativistic Celestial Mechanics presents a systematic exposition of the essential questions of relativistic celestial mechanics and thei...

Gravitational waves (GWs) are a hot topic and promise to play a central role in astrophysics, cosmology, and theoretical physics. Technological dev...

This book investigates the question of how matter has evolved since its origin in the Big Bang, from the cosmological synthesis of hydrogen and hel...

Scientific Simulations with Special-Purpose Computers. The GRAPE Systems J. Makino University of Tokyo, Japan and M. Taiji Institute for Statistica...

Among the most fascinating and rapidly developing areas in modemphysics is the study of cosmological phenomena such as black holes,the cosmic micro...

This book offers an intimate guide to the Milky Way, taking readers on a grand tour of our home Galaxy's structure, genesis, and evolution, based o...

Over a half century of exploration of the Earth’s space environment, it has become evident that the interaction between the ionosphere and the magn...

The system of satellites in place to provide environmental data-data to monitor events such as forest fires and floods; to make weather predictions...

In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space. In June 2004, the President's Comm...

In February 2004, the President announced a new goal for NASA; to use humans and robots together to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond. In response...

When the space exploration initiative was announced, Congress asked the NRC to review the science NASA proposed to carryout under the initiative. ...

In January 2006, the President announced a new civilian space policy focusing on exploration. As part of its preparations to implement that policy,...

The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA). This instrument would be an array ...

To the eyes of the average person and the trained scientist, the night sky is dark, even though the universe is populated by myriads of bright gala...

To the eyes of the average person and the trained scientist, the night sky is dark, even though the universe is populated by myriads of bright gala...

The book begins at the Sun then travels through the solar system to see the stars, how they work, and ultimately what they mean to us. The idea is ...

Subtlety in Relativity is the only book that has been written after the author’s discovery of a new way in which wave phenomena occur—the emission ...

'Each chapter ends with up to six student problems. There is full set of worked answers at the end of the book but modern students might not be enl...

'Each chapter ends with up to six student problems. There is full set of worked answers at the end of the book but modern students might not be enl...

General relativity and quantum mechanics have become the two central pillars of theoretical physics. Moreover, general relativity has important app...

Reflecting the results of twenty years; experience in the field of multipurpose flights, this monograph includes the complex routes of the trajecto...

The first edition of the monumental book Diseases from Space by Sir Fred Hoyle and N Chandra Wickramasinghe appeared some 40 years ago, encapsulati...

'This book is recommended to those interested in knowing how TeV astronomy began, evolved, and remains a growth area.The author has captured the di...

Understanding the Universe: The Physics of the Cosmos from Quasars to Quarks explores how all areas of physics, from the very smallest scales to th...