Glen Mackie

The Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Valuable reference resource for students and researchers containing over 250 full-color images of some of the best-observed galaxies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 285mm x 225mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 986g
• ISBN-13: 9780521620628
• ISBN-10: 0521620627
• Artikelnr.: 31192227

Autorenporträt

Glen Mackie is an astronomer in the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, and Coordinator of Swinburne Astronomy Online (SAO). He received a PhD ('The Stellar Content of Central Dominant Galaxies') from the Australian National University in 1990, and has worked at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Carter Observatory and Victoria University of Wellington. His research interests include galaxy formation and evolution, the rich cluster environment, multiwavelength properties of galaxies, large-scale structure, galaxy interactions and mergers and astronomy education and history.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Galaxies
2. Observing the electromagnetic spectrum
3. A view from the inside: the Galaxy
4. The atlas
Appendices
References
Index.