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  • Space-Time Reference Systems

    by Michael Soffel, Ralf Langhans ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The high accuracy of modern astronomical spatial-temporal reference systems has made them considerably complex. This book offers a comprehensive overview of such systems. It begins with a discussion of ‘The Problem of Time’, including recent developments in the art of clock making (e.g., optical clocks) and various time scales. The authors address the definitions and realization of spatial ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • New Horizons in Occultation Research

    Studies in Atmosphere and Climate

    Edited by Andrea Steiner, Barbara Pirscher, Ulrich Foelsche, Gottfried Kirchengast ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

    $143.09 USD

  • Occultations for Probing Atmosphere and Climate

    Edited by Andrea Steiner, Ulrich Foelsche, Gottfried Kirchengast ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Use of occultation methodology for observing the Earth's atmosphere and climate has become so broad as to comprise solar, lunar, stellar, navigation and satellite crosslink occultation methods. The atmospheric parameters obtained extend from the fundamental variables temperature, density, pressure, water vapor, and ozone via a multitude of trace gas species to particulate species such as aerosols ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Galactic Radio Astronomy

    by Yoshiaki Sofue ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is a concise primer on galactic radio astronomy for undergraduate and graduate students, and provides wide coverage of galactic astronomy and astrophysics such as the physics of interstellar matter and the dynamics and structure of the Milky Way Galaxy and galaxies. Radio astronomy and its technological development have led to significant progress in galactic astronomy and contributed to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Advanced Interferometers and the Search for Gravitational Waves

    Lectures from the First VESF School on Advanced Detectors for Gravitational Waves

    Edited by Massimo Bassan ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The search for gravitational radiation with optical interferometers is gaining momentum worldwide. Beside the VIRGO and GEO gravitational wave observatories in Europe and the two LIGOs in the United States, which have operated successfully during the past decade, further observatories are being completed (KAGRA in Japan) or planned (ILIGO in India). The sensitivity of the current observatories, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Probing Cosmic Dark Matter and Dark Energy with Weak Gravitational Lensing Statistics

    by Masato Shirasaki ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In this book the applicability and the utility of two statistical approaches for understanding dark energy and dark matter with gravitational lensing measurement are introduced.For cosmological constraints on the nature of dark energy, morphological statistics called Minkowski functionals (MFs) to extract the non-Gaussian information of gravitational lensing are studied. Measuring lensing MFs from ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Universe of Scales: From Nanotechnology to Cosmology

    Symposium in Honor of Minoru M. Freund

    Edited by Friedemann Freund, Stephanie Langhoff ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The presentations at this NASA-hosted Symposium in honor of Mino Freund will touch upon the fields, to which his prolific mind has made significant contributions. These include low temperature physics, cosmology, and nanotechnology with its wide-ranging applicability to material science, neuroscience, Earth sciences and satellite technology. To learn more about Mino’s career you can download the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force

    Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification in Modern Physics

    by Ephraim Fischbach, Allan Franklin ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book provides the reader with a detailed and captivating account of the story where, for the first time, physicists ventured into proposing a new force of nature beyond the four known ones - the electromagnetic, weak and strong forces, and gravitation - based entirely on the reanalysis of existing experimental data.Back in 1986, Ephraim Fischbach, Sam Aronson, Carrick Talmadge and their ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Asteroseismology

    by C. Aerts, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, D. W. Kurtz ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Understanding the stars is the bedrock of modern astrophysics. Stars are the source of life. The chemical enrichment of our Milky Way and of the Universe withallelementsheavierthanlithiumoriginatesintheinteriorsofstars.Stars arethe tracersofthe dynamics ofthe Universe,gravitationallyimplying much more than meets the eye. Stars ionize the interstellar medium and re-ionized the early intergalactic ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Mercury

    by T.J. Mahoney ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The purpose of this Gazetteer and Atlas of Astronomy (GAA) is to list, define and illustrate, for the first time, every named (as opposed to merely catalogued) object in the sky within a single reference work for use by the general reader, writers and editors dealing with astronomical themes, and those astronomers concerned with any aspect of astronomical nomenclature. Each part of the GAA will ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Production Yield of Muon-Induced Neutrons in Lead

    Measured at the Modane Underground Laboratory

    by Holger Kluck ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The work presented in this book is a major step towards understanding and eventually suppressing background in the direct search for dark matter particles scattering off germanium detectors. Although the flux of cosmic muons is reduced by many orders of magnitude in underground laboratories, the remaining energetic muons induce neutrons through various processes, neutrons that can potentially ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Exploring Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics in Optomechanical Devices

    by Haixing Miao ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Recent state-of-the-art technologies in fabricating low-loss optical and mechanical components have significantly motivated the study of quantum-limited measurements with optomechanical devices. Such research is the main subject of this thesis. In the first part, the author considers various approaches for surpassing the standard quantum limit for force measurements. In the second part, the author ... Read more

    $89.09 USD