Fundamental Questions in Astrophysics: Guidelines for Future UV Observatories

ISBN 10: 904817208X / ISBN 13: 9789048172085

Verlag: Springer, 2010

Beschreibung

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABLIING23Apr0316110338406

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Fundamental Questions in Astrophysics: Guidelines for Future UV Observatories
• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 904817208X
• ISBN-13: 9789048172085
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Modern astrophysics has evolved early phases of discovery and classification to a physics-oriented quest for answers to fundamental problems from cosmology to the origin and diversity of life-sustainable systems in the Universe. Future progress in modern astrophysics requires access to the electromagnetic spectrum in the broadest energy range. This book describes the fundamental problems in modern astrophysics that cannot progress without easy and wide-spread access to modern UV instrumentation.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

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.