Wave Processes at Interfaces -- Numerics for Magnetoplasmadynamic Propulsion -- Hexagonal Kinetic Models and the Numerical Simulation of Kinetic Boundary Layers -- High-resolution Simulation of Detonations with Detailed Chemistry -- Numerical Linear Stability Analysis for Compressible Fluids -- Simulation of Solar Radiative Magneto-Convection -- Riemann Problem for the Euler Equation with Non-C…
Preface -- 1. History and Description of Ice Ages -- 2. Variability of the Earth's climate -- 3. Ice core methodology -- 4. Ice core data -- 5. Ocean sediment data. etc.It is not so long ago (a mere 17,000 years – a blink in geologic time) that vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere were covered with ice sheets up to two miles thick, lowering the oceans by more than 120 m. By 11,000 years ago,…
Possible Meteoroid Streams Associated with (69230) Hermes and 2002 SY50 -- Are Asteroid 2003 EH1 and Comet C/1490 Y1 Dynamically Related? -- The Problem of Linking Minor Meteor Showers to Their Parent Bodies: Initial Considerations -- Evolution of the Geminids Observed Over 60 Years -- Advantages of Searching for Asteroids from Low Earth Orbit: The NEOSSat Mission -- Dynamical Relation of Meteo…
Introduction: Reminiscences and Appreciation of a Great Astronomer -- Digging Foundations for the “Royal Road” -- One Fellow’s View of the “Royal Road” -- Reminiscences of a Japanese Contemporary -- RR CrB and Algol — The First and Last Star in Zden?k Kopal’s Life with Binaries -- Atmospheric Eclipses in WR+O Binaries: From Kopal and Shapley to Present Days -- Binary Star Morpholo…
Halo White Dwarfs and Galactic Structure -- Old Ultracool White Dwarfs as Cosmological Probes -- Number Counts of White Dwarfs: The Impact of GAIA -- Influence of Metallicity in the Determination of the Age of Halo White Dwarfs -- Cool Halo White Dwarfs from GSCII -- Dark Halo Baryons not in Ancient White Dwarfs? -- The White Dwarf Population in the 2QZ and Sloan Surveys -- White Dwarfs and Cat…
The Unification Paradigm -- Standard Models of Physics and Cosmology -- Different Approaches: Quantum Superstrings and Quantum Gravity -- Other Approaches -- Fuzzy Spacetime and the Planck Scale -- The Universe of Fluctuations -- Quantum Geometry -- How Fundamental is Gravitation? -- The Elusive Mass Spectrum -- Experimental Effects.
The Earth's Climate and its Response to Solar Variability: The Climate System -- Atmospheric Dynamics, Modes of Variability and Climate Modelling -- Climate Records -- Radiative Processes in the Atmosphere -- The Greenhouse Effect and Radiative Forcing of Climate Change -- Clouds -- Atmospheric Photochemistry -- Response of Climate to Variations in Solar Irradiance -- The Earth's Electric Field…
Statistical Methods -- Uniform and Correlated Mass Density Fields -- The Power Spectrum and the Classification of Stationary Stochastic Fields -- Fractals -- Multifractals and Mass Distributions -- Applications to Cosmology -- Fluctuations in Standard Cosmological Models: A Real Space View -- Discrete Representation of Fluctuations in Cosmological Models -- Galaxy Surveys: An Introduction to Th…
Local Starbursts as Benchmarks for Galaxy Evolution -- Local Starbursts in a Cosmological Context -- Starbursts in the Evolving Universe: A Local Perspective -- Are There Local Analogs of Lyman Break Galaxies? -- The Disk Wolf-Rayet Population of the Nuclear Starburst Galaxy M83 -- Laser Illuminates Compact Galaxies -- First Spectroscopic Results from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey…
The Square Kilometre Array: An International Engineering Perspective -- The Allen Telescope Array -- Sky Noise Limited Snapshot Imaging in the Presence of RFI with LOFAR’s Initial Test Station -- The LOFAR Central Processing Facility Architecture -- Hemispheric Imaging of Galactic Neutral Hydrogen with a Phased Array Antenna System -- Electronic Multi-Beam Radio Astronomy Concept: Embrace a D…