Reviews in Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics : From Space Debris to Cosmology /: From Space Debris to Cosmology. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Petr Kabáth, David Jones, Marek Skarka.
• Editors: Kabáth, Petr; Jones, David; Skarka, Marek
• Contents: Foreword.- Preface.- Space debris, optical measurements.- Meteors - light from comets and asteroids.- Extrasolar enigmas: from disintegrating and evaporating exoplanets to exo-asteroids.- Physical conditions and chemical abundances in photoionized regions.- The Common Envelope Phase.- A modern view of quantitative spectroscopy of massive OB stars.- Explosion mechanism of core-collapse supernovae and its observational signatures.- Is MOND the next great step forward in astrophysics?.- Low-mass and substellar eclipsing binaries in stellar clusters.- Globular cluster systems and galaxy formation.- X-ray spectroscopy of the hot atmospheric gas in clusters, groups and massive galaxies.- The establishment of the Standard Cosmological Model through observations.- GTC in the Realm of Contemporary Astronomy.- Exploiting solar visible-range observations: from flows in the solar subsurface to a flaring atmosphere.- Starburst galaxies.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (411 pages)
• Subjects: Physics; Astrophysics; Observations, Astronomical; Cosmology; Space sciences; Science -- Astronomy; Science -- Cosmology; Science -- Astrophysics & Space Science; Astronomy, space & time; Relativity physics; Astronautics; Astrophysics; Astronomy--Observations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030385095
• Related ISBNs: 9783030385088
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