Laboratory Astrophysics

Author : P. Ehrenfreund,C. Krafft,H. Kochan,Valerio Pirronello
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401147286

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Laboratory Astrophysics and Space Research by P. Ehrenfreund,C. Krafft,H. Kochan,Valerio Pirronello Pdf

The book presents the most recent developments of laboratory studies in astrophysics and space research. The individual chapters review laboratory investigations under simulated space conditions, studies for the design of successful space experiments or for supporting the interpretation of astronomical and space mission recorded data. Related theoretical models, numerical simulations and in situ observations demonstrate the necessity of experimental work on the Earth's surface. The expertise of the contributing scientists covers a broad spectrum and is included in general overviews from fundamental science to recent space technology. The book intends to serve as a reference for researchers and graduate students on the most recent activities and results in laboratory astrophysics, and to give reviews of their applications in astronomy, planetology, cosmochemistry, space research and Solar System exploration.

Author : Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro,Rafael Escribano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319900209

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Laboratory Astrophysics by Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro,Rafael Escribano Pdf

This book focuses on the most recent, relevant, comprehensive and significant aspects in the well-established multidisciplinary field Laboratory Astrophysics. It focuses on astrophysical environments, which include asteroids, comets, the interstellar medium, and circumstellar and circumplanetary regions. Its scope lies between physics and chemistry, since it explores physical properties of the gas, ice, and dust present in those systems, as well as chemical reactions occurring in the gas phase, the bare dust surface, or in the ice bulk and its surface. Each chapter provides the necessary mathematical background to understand the subject, followed by a case study of the corresponding system. The book provides adequate material to help interpret the observations, or the computer models of astrophysical environments. It introduces and describes the use of spectroscopic tools for laboratory astrophysics. This book is mainly addressed to PhD graduates working in this field or observers and modelers searching for information on ice and dust processes.

Author : George A. Kyrala
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402034830

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High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics by George A. Kyrala Pdf

During the past several years, research teams around the world have developed astrophysics-relevant utilizing high energy-density facilities such as intense lasers and z-pinches. Research is underway in many areas, such as compressible hydrodynamic mixing, strong shock phenomena, radiation flow, radiative shocks and jets, complex opacities, equations o fstat, and relativistic plasmas. Beyond this current research and the papers it is producing, plans are being made for the application, to astrophysics-relevant research, of the 2 MJ National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; the 600 kj Ligne d'Intergration Laser (LIL) and the 2 MJ Laser Megajoule (LMJ) in Bordeaux, France; petawatt-range lasers now under construction around the world; and current and future Z pinches. The goal of this conference and these proceedings is to continue focusing and attention on this emerging research area. The conference brought together different scientists interested in this emerging new filed, with topics covering: - Hydrodynamic instabilities in astrophysics, - Supernovae and supernova remnant evolution, - Aastrophysical shocks, blast waves, and jets, - Stellar opacities, - Radiation and thermal transport, - Dense plasma atomic physics and EOS - X-ray photoionized plasmas, - Ultrastrong magnetic field generation Reprinted from Astrophysics and Space Science, volume 298, Nos. 1-2, 2005

Author : Sergey V. Lebedev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402060557

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High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics by Sergey V. Lebedev Pdf

This work will be of interest to a wide range of academics. It provides a comprehensive round-up of the proceedings and papers delivered at the 2006 Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, held at Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA. The contributions come from scientists interested in this emerging field. They discuss the progress in topics covering everything from stellar evolution and envelopes, to opacities, radiation transport and x-ray photoionized plasmas.

Author : Vito Mennella,Christine Joblin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031290039

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European Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics ECLA2020 by Vito Mennella,Christine Joblin Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference on laboratory astrophysics, which gathered a broad interdisciplinary community of astrophysicists, physicists, chemists, and geophysicists. It provides an update on outstanding results in this research field, the presentation of new laboratory developments, and the recent and expected to come space missions and other astronomical observatories with their specific needs for laboratory and theoretical studies.​Understanding the interplay between dust, ice, and gas during the star lifecycle as well as in planet forming regions and the Solar System is a vast topic in relation with space exploration and astronomical observations. It also strongly relies on laboratory astrophysics activities and chemical modelling in order to simulate the formation and evolution of matter in space. This book provides researchers and graduate students with a valuable account of the current state of this fascinating discipline.

Author : Stephan Schlemmer,Thomas Giesen,Harald Mutschke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783527408894

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Laboratory Astrochemistry by Stephan Schlemmer,Thomas Giesen,Harald Mutschke Pdf

Written by leading scientists in the field and intended for a broader readership, this is an ideal starting point for an overview of current research and developments. As such, the book covers a broad spectrum of laboratory astrophysics and chemistry, describing recent advances in experiments, as well as theoretical work, including fundamental physics and modeling chemical networks. For researchers as well as students and newcomers to the field.

Author : Farid Salama,Harold Linnartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108482473

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Laboratory Astrophysics (IAU S350) by Farid Salama,Harold Linnartz Pdf

Laboratory astrophysics is the Rosetta Stone that enables astronomers to understand and interpret the distant cosmos. It provides the tools to interpret and guide astronomical observations and delivers the numbers needed to quantitatively model the processes taking place in space, providing a bridge between observers and modelers. IAU Symposium 350 was organized by the International Astronomical Union's Laboratory Astrophysics Commission (B5), and was the first topical symposium on laboratory astrophysics sponsored by the IAU. Active researchers in observational astronomy, space missions, experimental and theoretical laboratory astrophysics, and astrochemistry discuss the topics and challenges facing astronomy today. Five major topics are covered, spanning from star- and planet-formation through stellar populations to extragalactic chemistry and dark matter. Within each topic, the main themes of laboratory studies, astronomical observations, and theoretical modeling are explored, demonstrating the breadth and the plurality of disciplines engaged in the growing field of laboratory astrophysics.

Author : A.J. Willis,T.W. Hartquist
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401708036

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Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas by A.J. Willis,T.W. Hartquist Pdf

Throughout his career Sir Robert Wilson has demonstrated that advances in a wide variety of fields in astrophysics and laboratory physics are achievable through the application of fundamental plasma spectroscopy. His work has included: optical studies that probed the nature of interstellar dust and first revealed the existence of O star winds; vacuum ultraviolet and X-ray diagnosis of fusion plasmas; rocket ultraviolet and X-ray observations of the Sun; and the conception, development and use of the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite which has contributed greatly to stellar, interstellar and extragalactic astrophysics. This volume contains reviews honouring Sir Robert and reflecting his interests.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309043830

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Working Papers by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee Pdf

This volume contains working papers on astronomy and astrophysics prepared by 15 non-National Research Council panels in areas ranging from radio astronomy to the status of the profession.

Author : Georg G. Raffelt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226702723

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Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics by Georg G. Raffelt Pdf

Much of what we know about neutrinos is revealed by astronomical observations, and the same applies to the axion, a conjectured new particle that is a favored candidate for the main component of the dark matter of the universe.

Author : J.T. Schmelz,Richard Brown
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401127653

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The Sun: A Laboratory for Astrophysics by J.T. Schmelz,Richard Brown Pdf

As in the days following Skylab, solar physics came to the end of an era when the So lar Maximum Mission re-entered the earth's atmosphere in December 1989. The 1980s had been a pioneering decade not only in space- and ground-based studies of the solar atmosphere (Solar Maximum Mission, Hinotori, VLA, Big Bear, Nanc;ay, etc.) but also in solar-terrestrial relations (ISEE, AMPTE), and solar interior neutrino and helioseismol ogy studies. The pace of development in related areas of theory (nuclear, atomic, MHD, beam-plasma) has been equally impressive. All of these raised tantalizing further questions about the structure and dynamics of the Sun as the prototypical and best observed star. This Advanced Study Institute was timed at a pivotal point between that decade and the realisation of Yohkoh, Ulysses, SOHO, GRANAT, Coronas, and new ground-based optical facilities such as LEST and GONG, so as to teach and inspire the up and coming young solar researchers of the 1990s. The topics, lecturers, and students were all chosen with this goal in mind, and the result seems to have been highly successful by all reports.

Author : Cosimo Bambi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811045240

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Black Holes: A Laboratory for Testing Strong Gravity by Cosimo Bambi Pdf

This textbook introduces the current astrophysical observations of black holes, and discusses the leading techniques to study the strong gravity region around these objects with electromagnetic radiation. More importantly, it provides the basic tools for writing an astrophysical code and testing the Kerr paradigm. Astrophysical black holes are an ideal laboratory for testing strong gravity. According to general relativity, the spacetime geometry around these objects should be well described by the Kerr solution. The electromagnetic radiation emitted by the gas in the inner part of the accretion disk can probe the metric of the strong gravity region and test the Kerr black hole hypothesis. With exercises and examples in each chapter, as well as calculations and analytical details in the appendix, the book is especially useful to the beginners or graduate students who are familiar with general relativity while they do not have any background in astronomy or astrophysics.“/p>

Author : J. Rosenberg
Publisher : North Holland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Astrophysics
ISBN : 0720401933

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International Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics by J. Rosenberg Pdf

Author : Hans Goedbloed,Rony Keppens,Stefaan Poedts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 995 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108577588

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Magnetohydrodynamics of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas by Hans Goedbloed,Rony Keppens,Stefaan Poedts Pdf

With ninety per cent of visible matter in the universe existing in the plasma state, an understanding of magnetohydrodynamics is essential for anyone looking to understand solar and astrophysical processes, from stars to accretion discs and galaxies; as well as laboratory applications focused on harnessing controlled fusion energy. This introduction to magnetohydrodynamics brings together the theory of plasma behavior with advanced topics including the applications of plasma physics to thermonuclear fusion and plasma- astrophysics. Topics covered include streaming and toroidal plasmas, nonlinear dynamics, modern computational techniques, incompressible plasma turbulence and extreme transonic and relativistic plasma flows. The numerical techniques needed to apply magnetohydrodynamics are explained, allowing the reader to move from theory to application and exploit the latest algorithmic advances. Bringing together two previous volumes: Principles of Magnetohydrodynamics and Advanced Magnetohydrodynamics, and completely updated with new examples, insights and applications, this volume constitutes a comprehensive reference for students and researchers interested in plasma physics, astrophysics and thermonuclear fusion.

Author : Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.). Symposium,Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521847591

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The Local Group as an Astrophysical Laboratory by Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.). Symposium,Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.) Pdf

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