Applications -- Volume II in Overview -- The Rotation of Earth and Moon -- Artificial Earth Satellites -- Evolution of the Planetary System -- Program System -- The Program System Celestial Mechanics -- The Computer-Programs NUMINT and LINEAR -- The Computer-Programs SATORB and LEOKIN -- The Computer-Program ORBDET -- The Computer-Program ERDROT -- The Computer-Program PLASYS -- Elements of Spe…
General -- Crystalline Silicates -- Water in Space: The Water World of ISO -- Molecular Hydrogen -- Understanding Galaxy Formation with ISO Deep Surveys -- Solar System -- The Planets and Titan Observed by ISO -- Comets, Asteroids and Zodiacal Light as Seen by Iso -- Stars and Circumstellar Matter -- ISO Observations of Pre-Stellar Cores and Young Stellar Objects -- Pre-Main Sequence Stars Seen…
Peering at Mars -- A close look -- The Vikings -- What is life? -- A multiplicity of missions -- The water dilemma -- Spirit -- Opportunity -- Future prospects."Why explore Mars? The simple answer is, we’re going to Mars to search for life. We’re following the water because on Earth where you find liquid water, organic material, and energy, you find life." u find life" Ed Weiler, NASA's Ass…
Foreword -- Introduction -- New tools -- The Dark Sky Site -- So, what can we expect to see?- Our Neighbourhood in Space: The Milky Way -- The Great Beyond -- Eyes on the Future -- Appendices -- Recommended equipment manufacturers -- Resources -- Real Time visual astronomy using image intensifiers and data modelling -- StellaCam II Highlights and Description -- Index.Patrick Moore’s Practical…
Getting started -- Routine operations -- A step towards continuous occupancy -- A base block for modular construction -- An astrophysical laboratory -- A microgravity laboratory for hire -- Expansion or abandonment? -- Shuttle-Mir -- The final chapter -- In retrospect.This successor edition picks up the story where the first edition left off in 1997, and runs through to Mir’s de-orbiting in M…
“It will take a hundred flights ...” -- Columbia delivers -- Recovery after Challenger -- Extended capabilities -- Golden age -- A miniature space station -- Uncertain future -- “In my book, they always landed ...”.On February 1st 2003, one of the worst and most public disasters ever witnessed in the human space programme unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above north cent…
Asymmetric Supernovae: Yes, Rotation and Magnetic Fields are Important -- Progress Toward the Study of Laboratory Scale, Astrophysically Relevant, Turbulent Plasmas -- Effects of Initial Conditions on Compressible Mixing in Supernova-Relevant Laboratory Experiments -- Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments for Simulation Code Validation: A Case Study -- How Did Cassiopeia A Explode? A Chandra VLP …
Introduction -- Basic concepts of Nuclear Physics -- Nuclear Models and Stability of the Nucleus -- Nuclear Reactions -- Nuclear Decays and Fundamental Interactions -- Radioactivity and all that -- Fission -- Fusion -- Nuclear Astrophysics -- Nuclear Cosmology -- Relativistic kinematics -- Accelerators -- Time-dependent perturbation theory -- Nutron transport -- Solutions and Hints for Selected…
A unified model for black hole X-ray binary jets? -- On the relationship between the jets from X-ray binaries and AGN -- A transition in the accretion properties of AGN -- Jet-disc coupling in the accreting black hole XTE J1118+480 -- Are 3C 120 and other active galactic nuclei overweight microquasars? -- A fundamental plane of black hole activity: Pushing forward the unification scheme -- Magn…
About the Book -- Historical Background -- Studies of Interstellar Matter -- Molecular Clouds and Cores -- Concepts of Stellar Collapse -- Evolution of Young Stellar Objects -- Accretion Phenomena and Magnetic Activity in YSOs -- High-energy Signatures in YSOs -- Star-forming Regions -- Proto-solar Systems and the Sun.Studies of stellar formation in galaxies have a profound impact on our unders…