Название: Fundamentals of Cosmology,2 Edition
Автор: James Rich
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2010
Страниц 328
ISBN: 3642027997
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3,9 MB
Язык Английский
The book is aimed at astrophysics students and professional physicists who wish to understand the basics of cosmology and general relativity as well as the observational foundations of the LambdaCDM model of the Universe. The book provides a self-contained introduction to general relativity that is based on the homogeneity and isotropy of the local universe. The simplicity of this space allows general relativity to be presented in a very elementary manner while laying the foundation for the ... Читать дальше »

                  

Название: Galaxies and their Masks: A Conference in Honour of K.C. Freeman, FRS
Автор: David L. Block, Kenneth C. Freeman, Ivânio Puerari
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2010
Страниц 482
ISBN: 1441973168
Формат: PDF
Размер: 18 MB
Язык Английский
Various kinds of masks obscure our view of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as well as of other galaxies. Masks of interstellar dust affect our measurements within galaxies, on scales ranging from individual supernovae to the galaxies themselves. The "mass mask” (our inability to image mass rather than light) gives astronomers a very incomplete picture of the size and structure of galaxies themselves, because we cannot image the dark matter which provides most of the galactic mass. Anoth ... Читать дальше »

                  

Название: Planetary Systems: Detection, Formation and Habitability of Extrasolar Planets
Автор: Marc Ollivier, Therese Encrenaz, Francoise Roques, and Franck Selsis
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2009
Страниц 360
ISBN: 3642094864
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12MB
Over the past ten years, the discovery of extrasolar planets has opened a new field of astronomy, and this area of research is rapidly growing, from both the observational and theoretical point of view. The presence of many giant exoplanets in the close vicinity of their star shows that these newly discovered planetary systems are very different from the solar system. New theoretical models are being developed in order to understand their formation scenarios, and new observat ... Читать дальше »