Fundamental Questions in Astrophysics: Guidelines for Future UV Observatories (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gómez de Castro, Ana I.; Wamsteker, Willem

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Modern astrophysics is a mature science that has evolved from its early phase of discovery and classification to a physics-oriented discipline focused in finding answers to fundamental problems ranging from cosmology to the origin and diversity of life-sustainable systems in the Universe. For this very reason, progress of modern astrophysics requires the access to the electromagnetic spectrum in the broadest energy range. The Ultraviolet is a fundamental energy domain since it is one of the most powerful tool to study plasmas at temperatures in the 3,000-300,000~K range as well as electronic transitions of the most abundant molecules in the Universe. Moreover, the UV radiation field is a powerful astrochemical and photoionizing agent.

This book describes the fundamental problems in modern astrophysics that cannot progress without easy and wide-spread access to modern UV instrumentation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402048395
• Artikelnr.: 37347633

Inhaltsangabe

Structure and Evolution of White Dwarfs and their Interaction with the Local Interstellar Medium.- Key Problems in Cool-Star Astrophysics.- UV Capabilities to Probe the Formation of Planetary Systems: From the ISM to Planets.- Ultraviolet Studies of Interacting Binaries.- The Need for Ultraviolet to Understand the Chemical Evolution of the Universe, and Cosmology.- Starbursts at Space Ultraviolet Wavelengths.- A View to the Future: Ultraviolet Studies of the Solar System.- Active Galaxies in the UV.- Fundamental Problems in Astrophysics.- Guidelines for Future UV Observatories.- Massive stars in the UV.