RR Lyrae Stars

RR Lyrae Stars
Author: Horace A. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2004-09-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521548175

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Complete account of the applications of RR Lyrae stars in professional astronomy.

Stellar Candles for the Extragalactic Distance Scale

Stellar Candles for the Extragalactic Distance Scale
Author: Danielle Alloin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2003-10-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783540201281

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This volume reviews the current status with respect to both theory and observation of the extragalactic distance scale. A sufficient accuracy is required both for a precise determination of the cosmological parameters and also in order to achieve a better understanding of physical processes in extragalactic systems. The "standard candles", used to set up the extragalactic distance scale, reviewed in this book include cepheid variables, RR Lyrae variables, novae, Type Ia and Type II supernovae as well as globular clusters and planetary nebulae.

Pulsating Stars

Pulsating Stars
Author: Márcio Catelan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2015-03-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527407154

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This book surveys our understanding of stars which change in brightness because they pulsate. Pulsating variable stars are keys to distance scales inside and beyond the Milky Way galaxy. They test our understanding not only of stellar pulsation theory but also of stellar structure and evolution theory. Moreover, pulsating stars are important probes of the formation and evolution of our own and neighboring galaxies. Our understanding of pulsating stars has greatly increased in recent years as large-scale surveys of pulsating stars in the Milky Way and other Local Group galaxies have provided a wealth of new observations and as space-based instruments have studied particular pulsating stars in unprecedented detail.

A Period Is Not a Full Stop

A Period Is Not a Full Stop
Author: Olabimpe Fapohunda-Dube
Publisher: 6th Sense Publishers
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2022-02-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9789789828487

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The book will encourage young girls and women living with endometriosis. Although it may be a painful period in your life, it is not a full stop. It will also create awareness in the society and enable friends and family to support people living with the condition. The book encourages people with symptoms to visit a specialist early enough for possible detection and diagnosis.

Introduction to Astronomical Photometry

Introduction to Astronomical Photometry
Author: M. Golay
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401021694

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The material given in this 'Introduction to astronomical photometry' is the subject matter of a lecture at the University of Geneva. It is, therefore, intended for those students, physicists or mathematicians, who have completed their bachelor's degree or diploma, and are intending to work for their Ph.D. in astronomy. We assume then the elementary ideas of astrophysics, magnitude, colour index, spectral classes, luminosity classes, gradient, atmospheric extinction are already known. The student may find it useful to re-read the work of Schatzman [1], Dufay [2] and Aller [254] before embarking upon the study of this 'Introduction to astronomical photometry'. It is not our aim in this book to deal with every aspect of stellar photometry. On the contrary, we shall restriet ourselves to looking at subjects ofwhich knowledge seems to us essential for someone who has to use photometrie quantities in his astronomical research. We are, therefore, keeping the interests of the photometrie measurements user partieularly in mind. We shall only discuss very superficially the technical prob lems and reduction methods for atmospheric extinction. These problems are dealt with very clearly in Astronomical Techniques [3]; the first by A. Lallemand, H. L.

Evolution of Stars and Stellar Populations

Evolution of Stars and Stellar Populations
Author: Maurizio Salaris
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2005-12-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780470092224

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Evolution of Stars and Stellar Populations is a comprehensive presentation of the theory of stellar evolution and its application to the study of stellar populations in galaxies. Taking a unique approach to the subject, this self-contained text introduces first the theory of stellar evolution in a clear and accessible manner, with particular emphasis placed on explaining the evolution with time of observable stellar properties, such as luminosities and surface chemical abundances. This is followed by a detailed presentation and discussion of a broad range of related techniques, that are widely applied by researchers in the field to investigate the formation and evolution of galaxies. This book will be invaluable for undergraduates and graduate students in astronomy and astrophysics, and will also be of interest to researchers working in the field of Galactic, extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. comprehensive presentation of stellar evolution theory introduces the concept of stellar population and describes "stellar population synthesis" methods to study ages and star formation histories of star clusters and galaxies presents stellar evolution as a tool for investigating the evolution of galaxies and of the universe in general

New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics

New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics
Author: Walter Lacarbonara
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2020-01-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030347249

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This third of three volumes from the inaugural NODYCON, held at the University of Rome, in February of 2019, presents papers devoted to New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics. The collection features both well-established streams of research as well as novel areas and emerging fields of investigation. Topics in Volume III include NEMS/MEMS and nanomaterials: multi-sensors, actuators exploiting nonlinear working principles; adaptive, multifunctional, and meta material structures; nanocomposite structures (e.g., carbon nanotube/polymer composites, composites with functionalized nanoparticles); 0D,1D,2D,3D nanostructures; biomechanics applications, DNA modeling, walking dynamics, heart dynamics, neurodynamics, capsule robots, jellyfish-like robots, nanorobots; cryptography based on chaotic maps; ecosystem dynamics, social media dynamics (user behavior dynamics in multi-messages social hotspots, prediction models), financial engineering, complexity in engineering; and network dynamics (multi-agent systems, leader-follower dynamics, swarm dynamics, biological networks dynamics).