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Life with Hubble :an insider's view of the world's most famous telescope /
"Version: 20200701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A small error : the origin of spherical aberration -- 2. The road to redemption : learning to service in space -- 3. The sharper image : correcting spherical aberration -- 4. Leading the way : preparing to service Hubble -- 5. To the rescue : the first servicing mission -- 6. Transfiguration : life without spherical ab…
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Planetary diversity :rocky planet processes and their observational signatures /
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.The challenges in understanding the diversity of rocky planets -- 1. Observations of exoplanets / Elizabeth J. Tasker and Yuka Fujii -- 2. Formation of a rocky planet / Elizabeth J. Tasker -- 3. Magnetic fields on rocky planets / Matthieu Laneuville, Chuanfei Dong, Joseph G. O'Rourke and Adam C. Schneider -- 4. The heat b…
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory :exploring the high energy universe /
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Exploring the high-energy universe -- 1.2. The Chandra X-ray Observatory -- 1.3. Mechanisms for the production and absorption of x-rays in a cosmic setting -- 1.4. Stars, planets, and solar system objects -- 1.5. Supernovae and their remnants -- 1.6. X-ray binaries -- 1.7. X-rays from galaxies -- 1…
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Seeing the unseen :Mount Wilson's role in high angular resolution astronomy /
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The birth of stellar interferometry -- 1.1. It all started with the last man who knew everything -- 1.2. The master of light -- 1.3. Along the way to the event horizon2. The Mount Wilson opportunity -- 2.1. Go west, young man -- 2.2. Michelson and Hale -- 2.3. Anderson and Merrill3. The pi?ece de r?esistance -- 3.1. Th…
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Introductory notes on planetary science :the solar system, exoplanets and pla…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is a planet? -- 1.2. Solar system overview -- 1.3. Brief remarks on this text -- 1.4. Important terms -- 1.5. Chapter 1 homework questions2. Energy from the sun -- 2.1. Energy generation in the sun -- 2.2. Blackbody curves and luminosity -- 2.3. The inverse square law -- 2.4. The equilibrium t…
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Extreme solar particle storms :the hostile Sun /
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. What can be learned from modern data? -- 2.1. Strength of solar flares -- 2.2. Solar particle events -- 2.3. Major geomagnetic storms3. State-of-the-art theory and modeling -- 3.1. Solar and stellar dynamos -- 3.2. Particle acceleration at the sun4. Cosmogenic isotopes as proxies for solar energetic …
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The cosmic 21-cm revolution :charting the first billion years of our universe /
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Theoretical framework : the fundamentals of the 21 cm line -- 1.1. Radiative transfer of the 21 cm line -- 1.2. The spin temperature -- 1.3. Heating of the intergalactic medium2. Astrophysics from the 21 cm background -- 2.1. Properties of the high-z intergalactic medium -- 2.2. Sources of the UV and x-ray background -…
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The NASA Kepler mission /
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Prelude -- 2. The NASA Kepler and K2 missions / John Troeltzsch and Steve B. Howell -- 3. Exoplanets / Jessie L. Christiansen, Stephen R. Kane, Susan E. Mullally, Steve B. Howell, David R. Ciardi, Calen B. Henderson, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Fergal Mullally and Rachel Street -- 4. Stellar astrophysics with Kepler and K2 /…
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Magnetic fields in O, B, and A stars /
"Version: 20210601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Basics of stellar magnetic field studies -- 2.1. Introduction to the field -- 2.2. The Stokes formalism -- 2.3. The oblique rotator model -- 2.4. The zeeman effect -- 2.5. Broad-Band linear polarisation -- 2.6. Magnetic field modulus -- 2.7. Autocorrelation -- 2.8. Spectral line moments in Stokes I a…
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The cosmic evolution of galaxy structure /
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction to scientific classification -- 1.2. Historical background -- 1.3. Stranger things--irregular, peculiar, and dwarf galaxies -- 1.4. Low surface brightness galaxies -- 1.5. Primer on galaxy structure and galaxy formation -- 1.6. Book structure2. Galaxy structure and its meaning -- 2.1. …
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