Polarimetry Iau S305

Author : K. N. Nagendra,Stefano Bagnulo,Rebecca Centeno,María Jesús Martínez González
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107078555

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Polarimetry (IAU S305) by K. N. Nagendra,Stefano Bagnulo,Rebecca Centeno,María Jesús Martínez González Pdf

The advances in solar, planetary, and extrasolar science employing polarimetric tools are far-reaching, and the pace of discovery is accelerating rapidly. In the last three decades, the emphasis of solar polarimetry has been to achieve simultaneously high spectral, spatial, and temporal resolution for all four Stokes parameters. In the field of stellar polarimetry the developments have been equally impressive, in allowing the detection and surface mapping of magnetic fields across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. This volume, arising from IAU Symposium 305, is devoted to sharing advances in science, data analysis, modeling, and instrumentation between solar and non-solar polarimetry communities. Given the relevance of polarimetric measurements to many aspects of astrophysics, the techniques and physical interpretations addressed within the book will be of interest to a wide audience of researchers and advanced students, in addition to those from solar and stellar communities.

Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Polarimetry
ISBN : OCLC:923746645

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Polarimetry by International Astronomical Union. Symposium Pdf

Author : Simon F. Green,Mark H. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521546222

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An Introduction to the Sun and Stars by Simon F. Green,Mark H. Jones Pdf

Compiled by a team of experts, this textbook has been designed for elementary university courses in astronomy and astrophysics. It starts with a detailed discussion of our nearest star, the Sun, and describes how solar physicists have come to understand its internal workings. It then considers how astronomers go about studying the basic physical properties and life-cycles of more distant stars, and culminates with a discussion of the formation of exotic objects such as neutron stars and black holes. Written in an accessible style that avoids complex mathematics, and illustrated in colour throughout, this book is suitable for self-study and will appeal to amateur astronomers as well as undergraduate students. It contains numerous helpful learning features such as boxed summaries, student exercises with full solutions, and a glossary of terms. The book is also supported by a website hosting further teaching materials.

Author : Jean-Claude Vial,Oddbjørn Engvold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319104164

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Solar Prominences by Jean-Claude Vial,Oddbjørn Engvold Pdf

This volume presents the latest research results on solar prominences, including new developments on e.g. chirality, fine structure, magnetism, diagnostic tools and relevant solar plasma physics. In 1875 solar prominences, as seen out of the solar limb, were described by P.A. Secchi in his book Le Soleil as "gigantic pink or peach-flower coloured flames". The development of spectroscopy, coronagraphy and polarimetry brought tremendous observational advances in the twentieth century. The authors present and discuss exciting new challenges (resulting from observations made by space and ground-based telescopes in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century) concerning the diagnostics of prominences, their formation, their life time and their eruption along with their impact in the heliosphere (including the Earth). The book starts with a general introduction of the prominence “object” with some historical background on observations and instrumentation. In the next chapter, the various forms of prominences are described with a thorough attempt of classification. Their thermodynamic (and velocity) properties are then derived with emphasis on the methods (and their limits) used. This goes from the simplest optically thin case to the heavy radiative treatment of plasmas out of local thermodynamic equilibrium. The following chapters are devoted to the magnetic field measurements and indirect derivation. A new branch of diagnostic tools, the seismology, is presented along with some MHD basics. This allows to better understand the propagation of waves, the energy and force equilibria. Both small-scale and large-scale studies and their relationship are presented. The importance of the newly discovered cavities is stressed in the context of prominence destabilization. The issues of prominence formation and eruption, their connection with flares and Coronal Mass Ejections and their impact on the Earth are addressed on the basis of the latest results. Finally, an exciting new area of research is unveiled with the newly discovered evidence of similar manifestations in the Universe and their possible impact on the habitability of exoplanets. References to the basic physics (where necessary) are provided and the proposed web sites addresses will allow the reader to load exciting movies. The book is aimed at advanced students in astrophysics, post-graduates, solar physicists and more generally astrophysicists. Amateurs will enjoy the many new images which go with the text.

Author : Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez,Maria Gritsevich,Herbert Palme
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319461793

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Assessment and Mitigation of Asteroid Impact Hazards by Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez,Maria Gritsevich,Herbert Palme Pdf

This volume is a compilation of the research presented at the International Asteroid Day workshop which was celebrated at Barcelona on June 30th, 2015. The proceedings discuss the beginning of a new era in the study and exploration of the solar system’s minor bodies. International Asteroid Day commemorates the Tunguska event of June 30th, 1908. The workshop’s goal was to promote the importance of dealing proactively with impact hazards from space. Multidisciplinary experts contributed to this discussion by describing the nature of comets and asteroids along with their offspring, meteoroids. New missions to return material samples of asteroids back to Earth such as Osiris-REx and Hayabusa 2, as well as projects like AIM and DART which will test impact deflection techniques for Potentially Hazardous Asteroids encounters were also covered. The proceedings include both an outreach level to popularize impact hazards and a scientific character which covers the latest knowledge on these topics, as well as offering proposals of promising new techniques that will help gain new insights of the properties of these challenging bodies by studying meteoroids and meteorites. Asteroids, comets, meteoroids and meteorites are introduced with descriptions of their nature, origin, and solar system pathways.

Author : Israel Liebman,James Kenneth Richmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Dust explosions
ISBN : UOM:39015078538629

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Suppression of Coal-dust Explosions by Israel Liebman,James Kenneth Richmond Pdf

Author : Petr Heinzel,Ivan Dorotovič,Robert J. Rutten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : UVA:X030240132

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The Physics of Chromospheric Plasmas by Petr Heinzel,Ivan Dorotovič,Robert J. Rutten Pdf

Author : David John Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521546230

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An Introduction to Galaxies and Cosmology by David John Adams Pdf

This introductory textbook has been designed by a team of experts for elementary university courses in astronomy and astrophysics. It starts with a detailed discussion of the structure and history of our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, and goes on to give a general introduction to normal and active galaxies including models for their formation and evolution. The second part of the book provides an overview of the wide range of cosmological models and discusses the Big Bang and the expansion of the Universe. Written in an accessible style that avoids complex mathematics, and illustrated in colour throughout, this book is suitable for self-study and will appeal to amateur astronomers as well as undergraduate students. It contains numerous helpful learning features such as boxed summaries, student exercises with full solutions, and a glossary of terms. The book is also supported by a website hosting further teaching materials.

Author : Patrick Michel,Francesca E. DeMeo,William F. Bottke
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816532131

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Asteroids IV by Patrick Michel,Francesca E. DeMeo,William F. Bottke Pdf

"More than forty chapters detail our current astronomical, compositional, geological, and geophysical knowledge of asteroids, as well as their unique physical processes and interrelationships with comets and meteorites"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Hannu Karttunen,Pekka Kröger,Heikki Oja,Markku Poutanen,Karl Johan Donner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540341444

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Fundamental Astronomy by Hannu Karttunen,Pekka Kröger,Heikki Oja,Markku Poutanen,Karl Johan Donner Pdf

Fundamental Astronomy is a well-balanced, comprehensive introduction to classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, the text provides a sound basis for more profound studies in the astronomical sciences. This is the fifth edition of the successful undergraduate textbook and reference work. It has been extensively modernized and extended in the parts dealing with extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. You will also find augmented sections on the solar system and extrasolar planets as well as a new chapter on astrobiology. Long considered a standard text for physical science majors, Fundamental Astronomy is also an excellent reference work for dedicated amateur astronomers.

Author : Volker Gerhardt,Rolf-Peter Horstmann,Ralph Schumacher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : 3110169797

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Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung by Volker Gerhardt,Rolf-Peter Horstmann,Ralph Schumacher Pdf

Author : Gufran Beig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aerosols
ISBN : UCSD:31822029837150

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Long Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere by Gufran Beig Pdf

Outcome of the First International Workshop on Long Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere, held at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, in February 1999.

Author : Steven R. Chesley,Alessandro Morbidelli,Robert Jedicke,Davide Farnocchia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107138256

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Asteroids: New Observations, New Models (IAU S318) by Steven R. Chesley,Alessandro Morbidelli,Robert Jedicke,Davide Farnocchia Pdf

Asteroids are the small, usually rocky, bodies that reside primarily in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. Individually, and as a population, they carry the signatures of the evolutionary processes that gave birth to the Solar System and shaped our planetary neighbourhood, as well as informing us about processes on broader scales and deeper cosmic times. The main asteroid belt is a lively place where the physical, rotational and orbital properties of asteroids are governed by a complicated interplay of collisions, planetary resonances, radiation forces, and the formation and fission of secondary bodies. The proceedings of IAU Symposium 318 are organised around the following core themes: origins, collisional evolution, orbital evolution, rotational evolution, and evolutional coupling. Together the contributions highlight the ongoing, exciting challenges for graduate students and researchers in this diverse field of study.

Author : Ludmilla Kolokolova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107043909

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Polarimetry of Stars and Planetary Systems by Ludmilla Kolokolova Pdf

A comprehensive review of state-of-the-art techniques, models and research methods in modern astronomical polarimetry.

Author : Ilmo Massa,Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen
Publisher : Kikimora Publications
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122146041

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The Struggle for Russian Environmental Policy by Ilmo Massa,Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen Pdf