Astrophysics

Most stars appear to show some degree of magnetic activity. For example, the varying magnetic field of the Sun shows up in the familiar sun-spot cy...

The present textbook on nuclear structure takes a unique and complementary approach compared to existing texts on the topic. Avoiding complicated c...

This book reviews both the historical observations of supernovae (SN) seen in our Galaxy over the last two millennia and recorded in East Asia (Chi...

Expanding upon the ideas first proposed in his seminal book Cosmical Magnetic Fields, Eugen N. Parker here offers the first in-depth treatment of t...

Working physicists, and especially astrophysicists, value a good `back-of-the-envelope' calculation, meaning a short, elegant computation or argume...

Working physicists, and especially astrophysicists, value a good `back-of-the-envelope' calculation, meaning a short, elegant computation or argume...

This book brings together a number of lectures given between 1993 and 1999 as part of a special series hosted by the Federal University of Pernambu...

The field of astrophysics is in the midst of a technologically driven renaissance, as fundamental discoveries are being made with astonishing frequ...

This book describes a revolutionary new approach to determining low energy routes for spacecraft and comets by exploiting regions in space where mo...

The discovery of a new elementary particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012 made headlines in world media. Since we already know of a l...

Spectroscopy and radiative transfer are rapidly growing fields within atmospheric and planetary science with implications for weather, climate, bio...

This book gathers the lecture notes of the 100th Les Houches Summer School, which was held in July 2013. These lectures represent a comprehensive p...

Graduate students in the natural sciences--including not only geophysics and space physics but also atmospheric and planetary physics, ocean scienc...

The book gathers the lecture notes of the Les Houches Summer School that was held in August 2011 for an audience of advanced graduate students and ...

This text gives an introduction to particle physics at a level accessible to advanced undergraduate students. It is based on lectures given to 4th ...

A total eclipse of the Sun is the most awesome sight in the heavens. Totality: Eclipses of the Sun takes you to eclipses of the past, present, and ...

The last years have seen a symbiosis of the fields of elementary particle physics and the astrophysics of the early universe. This text presents th...

Einstein's general theory of relativity is introduced in this advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level textbook. Topics include special ...

Written by leading experts in the field, Stellar Spectral Classification is the only book to comprehensively discuss both the foundations and most ...