Ditemukan 83 dokumen yang sesuai dengan query
Jennings, Elise, author
A major outstanding problem in physics is understanding the nature of the dark energy that is driving the accelerating expansion of the Universe. This thesis makes a significant contribution by demonstrating, for the first time, using state-of-the-art computer simulations, that the interpretation of future galaxy survey measurements is far more...
Berlin : [Springer, ], 2012
e20424918
eBooks Universitas Indonesia Library
Lena, Pierre, author
This textbook focuses on fundamental and sometimes practical limitations on the ultimate performance that an astronomical system may reach, rather than presenting particular systems in detail. In little more than a decade there has been extraordinary progress in imaging and detection technologies, in the fields of adaptive optics, optical interferometry,...
Berlin : [Springer, ], 2012
e20424999
eBooks Universitas Indonesia Library
Meier, David L., author
This book begins by reviewing quasars, microquasars, and gamma-ray bursts and shows why black holes are responsible for them. It describes simple, isolated black holes, adding rotation, accretion, radiation and magnetic fields, to show how these objects work....
Berlin : [Springer, ], 2012
e20425015
eBooks Universitas Indonesia Library
Kitchin, Chris, author
Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds probes the basis for possible answers to the fundamentals questions asked about these planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. This book examines what such planets might be like, where they are, and how we find them...
New York: [Springer, ], 2012
e20425232
eBooks Universitas Indonesia Library
Obridko, Vladimir N., editor
These are the proceedings of the Symposium 3 of JENAM 2011 on new scientific challenges posed by the Sun. The topics covered are (1) the unusual sunspot minimum, which poses challenges to the solar dynamo theory, (2) the Sun’s Terra-Hertz emission, which opens a new observational window, (3) corona wave...
Berlin : [Springer, ], 2012
e20425329
eBooks Universitas Indonesia Library
Brekke, Pal, author
This book is a great introduction to the Sun for general readers as well as scientists who are not solar physicists. The book presents the basic properties of the sun, describes how it has fascinated humans throughout history, and shows how it influences our current technologies....
New York: [Springer, ], 2012
e20425344
eBooks Universitas Indonesia Library
Davidson, Kris, editor
In this book the editors and contributing authors review its remarkable history, physical state of the star and its ejecta, and its continuing instability. Chapters also include its relation to other massive, unstable stars, the massive star progenitors of supernovae, and the "first" stars in the universe...
New York: Springer, 2012
e20425379
eBooks Universitas Indonesia Library
Papaderos, Polychronis, editor
The aim of this symposium was to bring together these two groups to exchange ideas and new results on the many evolutionary aspects of and open issues concerning dwarf galaxies. The main topics addressed include, the birth of dwarf galaxies: theoretical concepts and observable relics across wavelengths and time, the...
Berlin: Springer, 2012
e20425380
eBooks Universitas Indonesia Library
This volume covers concepts such as life?s origin, hypothesis of Panspermia and of life possibility in the Cosmos. The topic of extraterrestrial life is currently ?hot? and the object of several congresses and conferences. While the diversity of ?normal? biota is well known, life on the edge of the extremophiles...
Dordrecht: Springer, 2012
e20417290
eBooks Universitas Indonesia Library
Adams, Fred, author
This book explores the subject in the context of quantum gravity. A novel approach to uncover the dark faces of the standard model of cosmology. The possibility that dark energy and dark matter are manifestations of the inhomogeneous geometry of our universe. On the history of cosmological model building and...
New York: [Springer, ], 2012
e20425185
eBooks Universitas Indonesia Library
