Plasma Astrophysics

by Kazunari Shibata, Toshiki Tajima, Kazunari Shibatu

The twentieth century has witnessed the transformation of astronomy from celestial mechanics to astrophysics. While optical telescopes may have presented a peek into the structure of the constituents of the universe, such as stars and galaxies, new windows of observation have revealed far more amorphous objects, from nebulae and sheets to filaments and voids, whose "violent" processes include flares, shocks, accretion disks and jets. In these processes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813339960
• ISBN13: 9780813339962
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"