Author: American Astronomical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
List of members in v. 1, 3.
Publications of the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America
Author: American Astronomical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
List of members in v. 1, 3.
Astronomical Sciences
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Strategic Planning and Analysis. Program Review OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Laboratory Astrophysics
Author: Guillermo M. Muñoz CaroPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331990020X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
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.
Lunar Tables and Programs from 4000 B.C. to A.D. 8000
Author: Michelle Chapront-TouzéPublisher: Richmond, Va. : Willmann-Bell
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publications of the American Astronomical Society
Author: Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology
Author: Caleb A. ScharfPublisher: University Science Books
ISBN: 9781891389559
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
"This book: Provides extensive grounding in key issues of astrophysics, chemistry, biology and geophysics; over 150 images and illustrations; exercises for each chapter, ranging from straightforward calculation problems to more far-ranging research-oriented exercises; an online component for users that includes new exercises and a continually updated blog of late-breaking scientific news items, fully cross referenced with the book; and extensive bibliographies for each chapter."--BOOK JACKET.
The End of Astronauts
Author: Donald GoldsmithPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674257723
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A world-renowned astronomer and an esteemed science writer make the provocative argument for space exploration without astronauts. Human journeys into space fill us with wonder. But the thrill of space travel for astronauts comes at enormous expense and is fraught with peril. As our robot explorers grow more competent, governments and corporations must ask, does our desire to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars justify the cost and danger? Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees believe that beyond low-Earth orbit, space exploration should proceed without humans. In The End of Astronauts, Goldsmith and Rees weigh the benefits and risks of human exploration across the solar system. In space humans require air, food, and water, along with protection from potentially deadly radiation and high-energy particles, at a cost of more than ten times that of robotic exploration. Meanwhile, automated explorers have demonstrated the ability to investigate planetary surfaces efficiently and effectively, operating autonomously or under direction from Earth. Although Goldsmith and Rees are alert to the limits of artificial intelligence, they know that our robots steadily improve, while our bodies do not. Today a robot cannot equal a geologist's expertise, but by the time we land a geologist on Mars, this advantage will diminish significantly. Decades of research and experience, together with interviews with scientific authorities and former astronauts, offer convincing arguments that robots represent the future of space exploration. The End of Astronauts also examines how spacefaring AI might be regulated as corporations race to privatize the stars. We may eventually decide that humans belong in space despite the dangers and expense, but their paths will follow routes set by robots.
Publications of the American Astronomical Society
Author: American Astronomical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Seeing the Unseen
Author: Harold A. McAlisterPublisher: IOP Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9780750322065
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book provides a detailed history of stellar interferometry as practised at Mount Wilson Observatory. It covers the origin of the field in the early 19th Century, and its subsequent development throughout the last hundred years at the observatory, including the people, instruments, and methods involved in advancing high angular resolution astronomy. Additionally, two extensive appendices cover the importance of Mount Wilson today as well as an interferometry primer. It is an excellent book for historians, astronomers and anyone interested Mount Wilson. Key Features Describes the revolutionary work performed at the Mount Wilson Observatory in stellar astrophysics, extragalactic astronomy, and its role in high spatial resolution astronomy Focuses on the history and heritage of Mount Wilson Accessible to specialists, historians, and advanced amateur astronomers
Planets Around Pulsars
Author: J. A. PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description