Highlights of modern astrophysics : concepts and controversies
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Highlights of modern astrophysics : concepts and controversies
Wiley, 1986
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"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Thirteen physicists and astronomers, many of them Nobel Prize winners and directors of leading institutes, review the most important and timely issues in astrophysics today. The book stresses accomplishments of observational and theoretical work, and demonstrates how to unlock the secrets of the distant stars and galaxies by applying the basic principles of physics. Conflicting views and findings on important topics are pinpointed, thus revealing the inadequacy of our current understanding in these areas. The book also indicates possibilities for future research in the fast-paced field of modern astrophysics.
Table of Contents
- The Synthesis of the Chemical Elements Carbon and Oxygen
- Old and New Neutron Stars
- Supernova Theory
- Solar Neutrinos
- RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS: Black Holes: The Membrane Viewpoint
- Jets and Galactic Nuclei
- Probes of the Universe
- INTERSTELLAR MATTER: Theory of the Interstellar Medium
- OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY: What's the Matter in Spiral Galaxies? Relativistic Motion in Quasars
- Space Telescop and Cosmology
- What is Astronomy
- Quick is Beautiful
- Index.
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