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Gorkavyi, Nick |
Chelyabinsk Superbolide |
I09405 |
2019 |
eBook |
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Linsky, Jeffrey |
Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres |
I09380 |
2019 |
eBook |
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| 13 |
Armitage, Philip J |
From Protoplanetary Disks to Planet Formation |
I09287 |
2019 |
eBook |
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| 14 |
Notsu, Shota |
Water Snowline in Protoplanetary Disks |
I09123 |
2020 |
eBook |
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| 15 |
Carroll, Michael |
Lords of the Ice Moons |
I09049 |
2018 |
eBook |
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Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata |
Exploring the Universe: From Near Space to Extra-Galactic |
I09047 |
2018 |
eBook |
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Sugiura, Keisuke |
Development of a Numerical Simulation Method for Rocky Body Impacts and Theoretical Analysis of Asteroidal Shapes |
I09008 |
2020 |
eBook |
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Ren, Jie |
ULF Waves??? Interaction with Cold and Thermal Particles in the Inner Magnetosphere |
I08980 |
2019 |
eBook |
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De Blasio, Fabio Vittorio |
Mysteries of Mars |
I08870 |
2018 |
eBook |
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Awiphan, Supachai |
Exomoons to Galactic Structure |
I08850 |
2018 |
eBook |
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| Title | Chelyabinsk Superbolide |
| Author(s) | Gorkavyi, Nick;Dudorov, Alexander;Taskaev, Sergey |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2019. |
| Description | XVI, 304 p. 190 illus., 160 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | On February 15, 2013, the Chelyabinsk meteor sailed over Russian skies in a streak of light that was momentarily brighter than the Sun. The remarkable event and its subsequent shock wave were witnessed and documented by countless local residents, launching a widespread scientific expedition to gather and study the remaining meteoritic fragments. This book chronicles Chelyabinsk???s tale of recovery and discovery from the minds of many of the scientists who studied the superbolide, leading field experiments and collecting meteorites and meteorite dust across the region. The Chelyabinsk superbolide is a complex and multi-aspect phenomenon. The book not only presents the results of the scientific research but also details the firsthand experiences of those involved in such efforts, providing readers with a unique opportunity to look at the "inner workings" of science that are seldom shown to the public. Over the course of their studies, the scientists collected over 200 photographs and a dozen video recordings taken by nearly 40 different eyewitnesses. Many of those never-before-published illustrations and photos can be found in full color in the pages of this book |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030229863 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. PLANETARY SCIENCE
6. PLANETARY SCIENCES
7. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres : An Introductory Overview |
| Author(s) | Linsky, Jeffrey |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2019. |
| Description | X, 273 p. 143 illus., 104 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Like planets in our solar system, exoplanets form, evolve, and interact with their host stars in many ways. As exoplanets acquire material and grow to the final size, their atmospheres are subjected to intense UV and X-radiation and high-energy particle bombardment from the young host star. Whether a planet can retain its atmosphere and the conditions for significant mass loss both depend upon the strength of the host star's high-energy radiation and wind, the distance of the exoplanet from its host star, the gravitational potential of the exoplanet, and the initial chemical composition of the exoplanet atmosphere. This introductory overview describes the physical processes responsible for the emission of radiation and acceleration of winds of host stars that together control the environment of an exoplanet, focusing on topics that are critically important for understanding exoplanetary atmospheres but are usually not posed from the perspective of host stars. Accordingly, both host stars and exoplanets are not studied in isolation but are treated as integrated systems. Stellar magnetic fields, which are the energy source for activity phenomena including high-energy radiation and winds, play a critical role in determining whether exoplanets are habitable. This text is primarily for researchers and graduate students who are studying exoplanet atmospheres and habitability, but who may not have a background in the physics and phenomenology of host stars that provide the environment in which exoplanets evolve. It provides a comprehensive overview of this broad topic rather than going deeply into many technical aspects but includes a large list of references to guide those interested in pursuing these questions. Nonspecialists with a scientific background should also find this text a valuable resource for understanding the critical issues of contemporary exoplanet research |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030114527 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROBIOLOGY
2. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. PLANETARY SCIENCE
6. PLANETARY SCIENCES
7. PLANETOLOGY
8. Solar and Heliospheric Physics
9. SOLAR SYSTEM
10. SPACE SCIENCES
11. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | From Protoplanetary Disks to Planet Formation : Saas-Fee Advanced Course 45. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy |
| Author(s) | Armitage, Philip J;Kley, Wilhelm;Audard, Marc;Meyer, Michael R;Alibert, Yann |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2019. |
| Description | XXXIII, 260 p. 70 illus., 46 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Is the Sun and its planetary system special? How did the Solar system form? Are there similar systems in the Galaxy? How common are habitable planets? What processes take place in the early life of stars and in their surrounding circumstellar disks that could impact whether life emerges or not? This book is based on the lectures by Philip Armitage and Wilhelm Kley presented at 45th Saas-Fee Advanced Course ???From Protoplanetary Disks to Planet Formation??? of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. The first part deals with the physical processes occurring in proto-planetary disks starting with the observational context, structure and evolution of the proto-planetary disk, turbulence and accretion, particle evolution and structure formation. The second part covers planet formation and disk-planet interactions. This includes in detail dust and planetesimal formation, growth to protoplanets, terrestrial planet formation, giant planet formation, migration of planets, multi-planet systems and circumbinary planets. As Saas-Fee advanced course this book offers PhD students an in-depth treatment of the topic enabling them to enter on a research project in the field |
| ISBN,Price | 9783662586877 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. PLANETARY SCIENCE
6. PLANETARY SCIENCES
7. PLANETOLOGY
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| Title | Water Snowline in Protoplanetary Disks |
| Author(s) | Notsu, Shota |
| Publication | Singapore, Springer Singapore, 2020. |
| Description | XIII, 134 p. 53 illus., 51 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book presents pioneering work on a critical observational test of the planet formation theory based on the theoretical study of the water snowline, beyond which water takes the form of ice, in the protoplanetary disks ??? the place where planets are formed. Since the water snowline is thought to divide the regions of rocky and gas-giant planet formation, the location of the snowline is essential for the planet formation process. The book proposes a novel method to locate the snowlines using high-dispersion spectroscopic observations of water vapor lines, which is based on in sophisticated chemical modeling and line radiative transfer calculations. The author obtained the water vapor distribution in the disks using the chemical reaction network, which includes photoreactions and gas???grain interactions. The simulated transition lines of water vapor in the disks demonstrate that relatively weak transition lines with moderate excitation energies are the best tracers of water snowline. Furthermore, the author observed submillimeter lines of water vapor in a disk using ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) to obtain the upper limit of the line fluxes with the highest sensitivity to date. These unprecedented findings are important in locating the snowlines in the disks, and the method goes a long way toward achieving a comprehensive understanding of the planet formation processes as well as of the origin of water on rocky planets, including our Earth, based on future observations using ALMA and SPICA (Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics) |
| ISBN,Price | 9789811574399 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Observations, Astronomical
6. PLANETARY SCIENCE
7. PLANETARY SCIENCES
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| I09123 |
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| Title | Lords of the Ice Moons : A Scientific Novel |
| Author(s) | Carroll, Michael |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | XVIII, 213 p. 16 illus., 6 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | In the aftermath of an asteroid impact, Earth???s power grid is damaged nearly beyond recovery. The survival of our world may well depend on energy sources collected from an abandoned undersea settlement beneath the icy surface of Enceladus. Earth-raised Colonel Carter Rhodes, in charge of Earth???s recovery efforts, calls upon Gwen Bar??, a Venusian engineer, to regain control of the deserted moon outpost and collect fuel for Earth???s collapsing power grids. However, what Gwen discovers churning in the subsurface waters of Enceladus brings their straightforward plans to a crashing halt. Soon, Gwen finds herself in the middle of an interplanetary standoff. Win, and give the last humans on Earth a chance to survive. Lose, and risk the permanent dismantling of human society across the Solar System. Forced to take sides in this war for power, resources, and species survival, Gwen must make choices that not only affect her own life, but also force her to question what "life" itself might really mean. Will the promise of Enceladus energy be enough to salvage what is left of Earth???s society? Are these humans worthy of salvation? |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319981550 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ENERGY SYSTEMS
8. Genetic engineering
9. PLANETARY SCIENCE
10. PLANETARY SCIENCES
11. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | Exploring the Universe: From Near Space to Extra-Galactic : A Collection of Research Reviews on Contemporary Astrophysics and Space Science |
| Author(s) | Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata;Sasmal, Sudipta |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | XXI, 653 p. 234 illus., 7 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This Festschrift dedicated to the 60th birth anniversary of Prof. Sandip K. Chakrabarti, a well-known Indian astrophysicist, presents a collection of contributions by about fifty scientists who work on diverse topics in contemporary astrophysics and space science including new and low-cost balloon borne experiments, planetary science, astrochemistry and the origin of life, ionospheric research and earthquake predictions, relativistic astrophysics around black holes, and finally, the observational signatures and radiative properties of compact objects. All the authors are well known scholars in their respective subject and are all PhD students of Prof. Sandip K. Chakrabarti. The book demonstrates a two-dimensional evolution of research areas triggered by Sandip Chakrabarti over the past few decades. The first dimension represents the evolution and diversification of Chakrabarti???s own research in which new students were trained. A second dimension arises from the evolution of the research topics pursued by Chakrabarti???s fifty odd doctoral students, many of whom have become renowned scientists in their own right, after starting with a certain subject under Chakrabarti and then migrating to completely new subjects with dexterity. The editors have compiled and edited the articles appropriately to some extent to suit the spirit of this Festschrift on the one hand and to keep balance in diverse topics on the other. Thus this volume also provides an overview for whosoever wishes to enter the important subjects of compact objects, astrochemistry, ionospheric science or space exploration in near space. New graduates, PhD scholars, teachers and researchers will benefit from this volume. Moreover it is a record of tremendous success of a school in a range of vast topics |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319946078 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
6. PLANETARY SCIENCE
7. PLANETARY SCIENCES
8. SPACE SCIENCES
9. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
10. THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS
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| Title | Development of a Numerical Simulation Method for Rocky Body Impacts and Theoretical Analysis of Asteroidal Shapes |
| Author(s) | Sugiura, Keisuke |
| Publication | Singapore, Springer Singapore, 2020. |
| Description | XIII, 134 p. 57 illus., 55 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book describes numerical simulations of collisions between asteroids, based on a unique numerical code developed by the author. The code accurately solves the elastic dynamic equations and describes the effects of fracture and friction, which makes it possible to investigate the shapes of impact outcomes produced by asteroid collisions and subsequent gravitational accumulation of fragments. The author parallelizes the code with high parallelization efficiency; accordingly, it can be used to conduct high-resolution simulations with the aid of supercomputers and clarify the shapes of small remnants produced through the catastrophic destruction of asteroids. The author demonstrates that flat asteroids can only be produced by impacts involving objects with similar mass and low velocity, which suggests that the flat asteroids in our solar system were created in the planet formation era and have kept their shapes until today. The author also shows that asteroid collisions under certain conditions can produce the extremely elongated shape of an interstellar minor body, 1I/???Oumuamua. In brief, the book offers a comprehensive investigation of asteroid impacts and shapes, making it a uniquely valuable resource |
| ISBN,Price | 9789811537226 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
5. Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation
6. PHYSICS
7. PLANETARY SCIENCE
8. PLANETARY SCIENCES
9. THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS
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| Title | ULF Waves??? Interaction with Cold and Thermal Particles in the Inner Magnetosphere |
| Author(s) | Ren, Jie |
| Publication | Singapore, Springer Singapore, 2019. |
| Description | XXI, 106 p. 61 illus., 52 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This thesis focuses on ULF (Ultra-low-frequency) waves' interaction with plasmasphere particles and ring current ions in the inner magnetosphere. It first reports and reveals mutual effect between ULF waves and plasmasphere using Van Allen Probes data. The differences and similarities of different ring current ions interacting with ULF waves are extensively explored using Cluster data, which provides a potential explanation for O+-dominated ring current during the magnetic storms. Furthermore, this thesis finds a method to study the phase relationship between ULF waves and drift-bounce resonant particles, and proposes that the phase relationship can be used to diagnose the parallel structure of standing wave electric field and energy transfer directions between waves and particles. The findings in this thesis can significantly promote our understanding of ULF waves' role in the dynamics of inner magnetosphere |
| ISBN,Price | 9789813293786 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. PLANETARY SCIENCE
6. PLANETARY SCIENCES
7. PLASMA (IONIZED GASES)
8. PLASMA PHYSICS
9. SPACE SCIENCES
10. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Mysteries of Mars |
| Author(s) | De Blasio, Fabio Vittorio |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | XIII, 189 p. 156 illus., 105 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book introduces the reader to the wonders of Mars, covering all aspects from our past perceptions of the planet through to the latest knowledge on its history, its surface processes such as impact cratering, volcano formation, and glaciation, and its atmosphere and climate. In addition, a series of ten intriguing open issues are considered in a more advanced way. These include such thought-provoking questions as What turned off the planet???s magnetic field?, Why are the northern and southern hemispheres so different?, What was the fate of the once abundant water?, and Is there, or was there, life on Mars? Numerous original figures, unavailable elsewhere, reproduce details of images from Viking, CTX, MOC, HiRISE, THEMIS, and HRSC. The book will appeal especially to general readers interested in planetary sciences, astronomy, astrogeology, and space exploration and to students of Earth Sciences and Natural and Environmental Sciences. The higher-level material on the remaining mysteries of Mars will also be of interest to astrogeologists and other researchers |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319747842 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROBIOLOGY
2. ASTRONOMY
3. EARTH
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GEOLOGY
7. PLANETARY SCIENCE
8. PLANETARY SCIENCES
9. PLANETOLOGY
10. Popular Earth Science
11. Popular Science in Astronomy
12. SPACE SCIENCES
13. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Exomoons to Galactic Structure : High Precision Studies with the Microlensing and Transit Methods |
| Author(s) | Awiphan, Supachai |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | XXVI, 187 p. 72 illus., 54 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book presents three major studies covering exomoon and exoplanet detection and characterisation. Firstly, it reports the observations and analysis of the atmosphere of the hot Neptune GJ3470b, one of the lowest-mass planets with a measured atmosphere, using transmission spectroscopy techniques. The result provided improved measurements of Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere and the first limits on additional planetary companions in the system. The second part discusses modeling a Kepler-like satellite???s ability of a to detect exomoons by looking for transit timing variations and transit duration variations, demonstrating how exomoons can unambiguously be identified from such data.Lastly, the book examines the development of a state-of-the-art Galactic microlensing simulator, which has been made publicly available. It was used to compare with the largest published sample of microlensing events from the MOA-II survey |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319909578 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROBIOLOGY
2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
3. Astronomy???Observations
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Observations, Astronomical
7. PLANETARY SCIENCE
8. PLANETARY SCIENCES
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