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The main results focus on the global oscillations of the Sun (p-modes), solar corona, solar flares, solar cosmic rays, Earth's radiation belts, and upper atmosphere.

In fact, if we did not know that major starbursts existed, these conference proceedings testify that we would indeed have difficulties explaining the key properties of the Universe! These conference proceedings cover starbursts from the small-scale star-forming regions in nearby galaxies to galaxy-wide events at high redshifts;

Provides the complete academic treatment on the application of polytropes. This book is primarily intended for students and scientists working in Astrophysics and related fields. It provides an overview of past and present research results and is useful for those wanting to apply polytropes.

The papers presented in this book examine in detail the historical, cosmological, philosophical and theological issues surrounding the development of the Big Bang theory from its beginnings in the pioneering work of Lemaitre through to the modern day.This book offers the best account in English of Lemaitre's life and work.

This book tracks the history of the theory of relativity through Einstein's life, covering the origins of his ideas and his debt to the work of Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Mach and others; the birth of modern cosmology and his quest for a unified field theory.

Provides an introductory part based on classical physics. The transfer equations for polarized radiation and the statistical equilibrium equations for the atomic density matrix are derived directly from the principles of Quantum Electrodynamics. This book is intended for scientists working in the field of spectropolarimetry.

This biography summarizes the seminal contributions to auroral and space science of Carl Stormer (1874 - 1957), the first to develop precise photographic methods to calculate heights and morphologies of diverse auroral forms during four solar cycles.

This book reviews the phenomenology displayed by relativistic jets as well as the most recent theoretical efforts to understand the physical mechanisms at their origin. Relativistic jets have been observed and studied in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) for about half a century and are believed to be fueled by accretion onto a supermassive black hole at the center of the host galaxy. Since the first discovery of relativistic jets associated with so-called "micro-quasars" much more recently, it has seemed clear that much of the physics governing the relativistic outflows in stellar X-ray binaries harboring black holes and in AGN must be common, but acting on very different spatial and temporal scales. With new observational and theoretical results piling up every day, this book attempts to synthesize a consistent, unified physical picture of the formation and disruption of jets in accreting black-hole systems.The chapters in this book offer overviews accessible not only to specialists but also to graduate students and astrophysicists working in other areas. Covered topics compriseRelativistic jets in stellar systemsLaunching of AGN jetsParsec-scale AGN jetsKiloparsec-scale AGN jetsBlack hole magnetospheresTheory of relativistic jetsThe structure and dynamics of the inner accretion diskThe origin of the jet magnetic fieldX-ray observations, phenomenology, and connection with theory

Contains lecture papers and contributed papers on different aspects of magnetic phenomena in the solar atmosphere. This book addresses topics such as the physics of solar flares, prominences, coronal mass ejections, magnetic helicity, high-energy radiation from the Sun, observations of the photosphere and chromosphere.

The existence of blue straggler stars, which appear younger, hotter, and more massive than their siblings, is at odds with a simple picture of stellar evolution.

Proceedings of a Workshop held in Trieste, Italy, September 14-18, 1987

Many analyses of individual flares and individual phenomena, often jointly across many data sources had been published, but a need existed for a broader synthesis and updating of our understanding of solar flares since the Skylab Flare Workshops held several years earlier.

This is the latest effort in a sequence of presentations begun in 1949 with a series of lectures on long-focus photographic astrometry given by the author as Fulbright professor in Paris at the invitation by the late H.

Proceedings of the L.D. de Feiter Memorial Symposium, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 7-10, 1977

Proceedings of a Symposium organized within the XIXth URSI General Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland, July 31-August 8, 1978

This book sets forth and builds upon the fundamentals of the dynamics of natural systems in formulating the problem presented by Jacobi in his famous lecture series "Vorlesungen tiber Dynamik" (Jacobi, 1884).

Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 67 held at Zelenchukskaya, U.S.S.R., September 8-10, 1981

Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 72, held in Haifa, Israel, August 9-13, 1982

This book presents studies of complexity in the context of nonequilibrium phenomena using theory, modeling, simulations, and experiments, both in the laboratory and in nature.

It was our good fortune that at that time there was being brought into being the new Cosmic Ray Project (what at that time was also very secret, but not as secret as the Atomic Problem), and after some time we were directed to work on this Project.

The seventh volume under the title "Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy (OSA)", this book covers chapters that deal with socio-dynamical aspects of the astronomy community: characteristics of organizations, strategies for development, operational techniques, observing practicalities, journal and magazine profiles, and more.

Proceedings of the Third ESLAB/ESRIN Symposium held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, September 16-19, 1969

Written by experts who created the field, this volume explores uncharted scientific territory, with articles discussing the effect of our galactic environment on the heliosphere, planetary system and Earth.

This book on reference systems is the first comprehensive review of the problem of celestial and terrestrial reference systems and frames.

Proceedings of the 7th North American Workshop held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., January 12-15, 1983

Proceedings of the Frascati Workshop 1986 held on Vulcano Island, September 8-12, 1986

Proceedings of Special IAU Sessions held in Grenoble, France, August 25-30, 1976

Invited Papers presented at the IAU Colloquium No. 29, held in Budapest, September 1-5, 1975