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…
Our Galaxy, Host of the Interstellar Medium -- Radiations and Magnetic Fields -- Radiative Transfer and Excitation -- The Neutral Interstellar Gas -- The Ionized Interstellar Gas -- The Interstellar Medium at High Energies -- Interstellar Dust -- Heating and Cooling of the Interstellar Gas -- Interstellar Chemistry -- Photodissociation Regions -- Shocks -- Shock Applications -- Interstellar Tur…
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…
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…
History of HVC research — an Overview -- HVC/IVC Maps and HVC Distribution Functions -- Kinematics of HV and IV Gas -- Interemdiate-velocity Clouds -- HVCS Related to the Magellanic System -- High-velocity Hi Gas in External Galaxies -- The Large- and Small-scale Structure of HVCs -- Ionized Gas Associated with HVCs -- The Coldest Phase in Halo High-velocity Gas: Dust and Molecules -- Distanc…
Geoid And Gravity In Earth Sciences – An Overview -- Future Satellite Gravimetry For Geodesy -- Challenges From Solid Earth Dynamics For Satellite Gravity Field Missions In The Post-Goce Era -- Time Variation In Hydrology And Gravity -- Future Gravity Missions And Quasi-Steady Ocean Circulation -- Future Benefits Of Time-Varying Gravity Missions To Ocean Circulation Studies -- Ice Mass Balanc…
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…
Neutron Star Formation -- Young Neutron Stars and Their Wind Nebulae -- Neutron Star Superfluidity, Dynamics and Precession -- A Biography of the Magnetic Field of a Neutron Star -- Elementary Processes in Strong Magnetic Fields -- Drifting Subpulses in PSR B0826-34 -- Temperature Distribution in Magnetized Neutron Star Crusts -- Coupling of Radial and Non-Radial Oscillations of Neutron Stars -…
Specifying and Forecasting Space Weather Threats to Human Technology -- Geospace storm dynamics -- Structure and Dynamics of the Outer Radiation Belt -- The Ion Radiation Belts: Experiments and Models -- Outlook on Space Weather Effects on Spacecraft -- Space Weather Effects on SOHO and its Space Weather Warning Capabilities -- Prevention of Spacecraft Anomalies — The Role of Space Climate an…