Giuseppe Bertin (Universita degli Studi di Milano)

Visible and Dark Matter in the Universe

A Short Primer on Astrophysical Dynamics

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Produktbeschreibung

This concise introduction to modern astrophysics focuses on galaxy dynamics and the discovery of dark matter halos in galaxies. Aimed at advanced undergraduates in physics, it provides an excellent bridge to important research topics in contemporary astrophysics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781316519318
• ISBN-10: 1316519317
• Artikelnr.: 65688346

Autorenporträt

Giuseppe Bertin is Professor of Physics at the University of Milan, Italy. He has previously held several positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has been a member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara. His previous books include Spiral Structure in Galaxies: A Density Wave Theory with C. C. Lin (MIT Press) and Dynamics of Galaxies (Cambridge University Press). He was elected to Italy's Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in 2013, when he received its Premio Nazionale del Presidente della Repubblica in Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Visible Matter: 1. Light
2. Optical astronomy
3. Radio astronomy
4. X-ray and Gamma ray astronomy
5. Astroparticle physics, gravitational waves, space physics. Part II. Dark Matter: 6. Galaxies
7. The supermissive black hold at the center of the Milky Way
8. Two precursors of the problem of dark matter
9. The discovery of dark halos around spiral galaxies
10. The cosmological context
Notes
Index.