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Author | : Frederick D. Seward |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2010-08-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1139491539 |
Capturing the excitement and accomplishments of X-ray astronomy, this second edition now includes a broader range of astronomical phenomena and dramatic new results from the most powerful X-ray telescopes. Covering all areas of astronomical research, ranging from the smallest to the largest objects, from neutron stars to clusters of galaxies, this textbook is ideal for undergraduate students. Each chapter starts with the basic aspects of the topic, explores the history of discoveries, and examines in detail modern observations and their significance. This new edition has been updated with results from the most recent space-based instruments, including ROSAT, BeppoSAX, ASCA, Chandra, and XMM. New chapters cover X-ray emission processes, the interstellar medium, the Solar System, and gamma-ray bursts. The text is supported by over 300 figures, with tables listing the properties of the sources, and more specialized technical points separated in boxes.
Author | : Wallace H. Tucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780674004979 |
Revealing the Universe tells the story of the Chandra X-ray Observatory."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Joachim E. Trümper |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2008-02-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3540344128 |
With contributions from leading scientists in the field, and edited by two of the most prominent astronomers of our time, this is a totally authoritative volume on X-ray astronomy that will be essential reading for everyone interested – from students to astrophysicists and physicists. All the aspects of this exciting area of study are covered, from astronomical instrumentation to extragalactic X-ray astronomy.
Author | : Richard B. Gunderman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199976236 |
X-ray Vision weaves together some of the most fascinating images and accounts in science and medicine. It is the first book to combine stories from the history of medical imaging, the remarkable ways in which it illuminates our lives and the world in which we live, and the lives of real patients whose medical care it has enriched.
Author | : Wallace H. Tucker |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017-03-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1588345882 |
On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra science spokesperson Wallace H. Tucker uses a series of short, connected stories to describe the telescope's exploration of the hot, high-energy face of the universe. The book is organized in three parts: "The Big," covering the cosmic web, dark energy, dark matter, and massive clusters of galaxies; "The Bad," exploring neutron stars, stellar black holes, and supermassive black holes; and "The Beautiful," discussing stars, exoplanets, and life. Chandra has imaged the spectacular, glowing remains of exploded stars and taken spectra showing the dispersal of their elements. Chandra has observed the region around the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way and traced the separation of dark matter from normal matter in the collision of galaxies, contributing to both dark matter and dark energy studies. Tucker explores the implications of these observations in an entertaining, informative narrative aimed at space buffs and general readers alike.
Author | : Volker Schönfelder |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3662045931 |
After describing cosmic gamma-ray production and absorption, the instrumentation used in gamma-ray astronomy is explained. The main part of the book deals with astronomical results, including the somewhat surprising result that the gamma-ray sky is continuously changing.
Author | : Philip A. Charles |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1995-10-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521437127 |
The one-stop general book on the whole of X-ray astronomy.
Author | : Xavier Barcons |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1992-07-31 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521416511 |
A review of the current observational knowledge and understanding of the cosmic X-ray background.
Author | : Craig L. Sarazin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988-03-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521329576 |
First published in 1988, this book is a comprehensive survey of the astrophysical characteristics of the hot gas which pervades clusters of galaxies. In our universe, clusters of galaxies are the largest organised structures. Typically they comprise hundreds of galaxies moving through a region of space ten million light years in diameter. The volume between the galaxies is filled with gas having a temperature of 100 million degrees. This material is a strong source of cosmic X-rays. Dr Sarazin describes the theoretical description of the origin, dynamics, and physical state of the cluster gas. Observations by radio and optical telescopes are also summarised. This account is addressed to professional astronomers and to graduate students. It is an exhaustive summary of a rapidly expanding field of research in modern astrophysics.
Author | : Wallace H. Tucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Beyond the range of optical perception--and of ordinary imaginings--a new and violent universe lay undetected until the advent of space exploration. Supernovae, black holes, quasars and pulsars--these were the secrets of the highenergy world revealed when, for the first time, astronomers attached their instruments to rockets and lofted them beyond the earth's x-ray-absorbing atmosphere. The X-Ray Universe is the story of these explorations and the fantastic new science they brought into being. It is a first-hand account: Riccardo Giacconi is one of the principal pioneers of the field, and Wallace Tucker is a theorist who worked closely with him at many critical periods. The book carries the reader from the early days of the Naval Research Laboratory through the era of V-2 rocketry, Sputnik, and the birth of NASA, to the launching of the Einstein X-Ray Observatory. But this is by no means just a history. Behind the suspenseful, sometimes humorous details of human personality grappling with high technology lies a sophisticated exposition of current cosmology and astrophysics, from the rise and fall of the steady-state theory to the search for the missing mass of the universe.