This
PDF covers the following topics related to Astronomy : Introduction to
Astrophysics, Size and Distance Scales, Stars: A Basic Overview, Temperature,
Luminosity, and Energy, Energy Sources, The Two-Body Problem and Kepler’s Laws,
Binary Systems, Exoplanets, Planets, and the Solar System, Gravitational Waves,
Radiation, Radiative Transfer, Stellar Classification, Spectra, and Some
Thermodynamics, Stellar Atmospheres, Timescales in Stellar Interiors, Stellar
Structure, Stability, Instability, and Convection, Polytropes, An Introduction
to Nuclear Fusion, Nuclear Reaction Pathways, End Stages of Nuclear Burning,
Stellar Evolution: The Core, Stellar Evolution: The Rest of the Picture, On the
Deaths of Massive Stars, Compact Objects, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Accretion,
Fluid Mechanics, The Interstellar Medium, Exoplanet Atmospheres, The Big Bang,
Our Starting Point, Thermal and Thermodynamic Equilibrium, Energy Transport.
This
PDF covers the following topics related to Astronomy : Introduction to
Astrophysics, Size and Distance Scales, Stars: A Basic Overview, Temperature,
Luminosity, and Energy, Energy Sources, The Two-Body Problem and Kepler’s Laws,
Binary Systems, Exoplanets, Planets, and the Solar System, Gravitational Waves,
Radiation, Radiative Transfer, Stellar Classification, Spectra, and Some
Thermodynamics, Stellar Atmospheres, Timescales in Stellar Interiors, Stellar
Structure, Stability, Instability, and Convection, Polytropes, An Introduction
to Nuclear Fusion, Nuclear Reaction Pathways, End Stages of Nuclear Burning,
Stellar Evolution: The Core, Stellar Evolution: The Rest of the Picture, On the
Deaths of Massive Stars, Compact Objects, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Accretion,
Fluid Mechanics, The Interstellar Medium, Exoplanet Atmospheres, The Big Bang,
Our Starting Point, Thermal and Thermodynamic Equilibrium, Energy Transport.
This note provides a quantitative introduction to the physics of
the solar system, stars, the interstellar medium, the galaxy, and the universe,
as determined from a variety of astronomical observations and models.
This note describes the
following topics: Astronomy History and science, Ancient Mesopotamian Astronomy,
Greek Astronomy, Islamic Astronomy, The Copernican Revolution, The Universe of
the 20th Century.
This book covers the following
topics: Orbits and Light, Spectroscopy, Telescopes, Solar System, Planetary System Formation,
The Sun, Properties of Stars, Interstellar Medium, Star Formation, Stellar
Evolution.
This
astronomy note introduces you to the wonders of modern astronomy.From the Solar
System to the most distant galaxies, we undertake an eye-opening journey, from
how stars work to the structure of the universe itself.
This note demonstrate
the extraordinary images flowing from the Hubble Space Telescope, this series
builds a picture of each stage in the life cycle of a star. An evening of star
viewing in the Blue Mountains is included.
Astronomy is the scientific study of the
universe as a whole, and of celestial bodies and the underlying physics
governing those bodies. This Wikibook introduces the reader to that tapestry and
the process that revealed it to humanity. It presents astronomy not only as a
field of knowledge, but also as a human endeavor in science.
This book covers the
following topics: What is Radio Astronomy, Early Radio Astronomy, The Radio
Universe, Radiation Fundamentals: Brightness and Flux, Radiative Transfer,
Blackbody Radiation, Larmor's Formula, CMB Radiation, Antenna Fundamentals,
Reflector Antennas, Filled Apertures, Radio Telescopes, Radiometers,
Interferometers, Thermal Emission, Nonthermal Emission, Pulsars and Spectral
Lines.
As such a book, The Elements of Astronomy, or the World as it
is, and as it appears, is offered by a teacher to the teaching and studying
public. Had the writer aimed only to excite an interest in the subject, it would
have been shorter and more attractive , but it is intended, likewise, to
exercise the student's memory, reason, and imagination.
This book covers
the following topics: Stellar and Galactic Astronomy, Interplanetary Dust,
Observations of Comet Kohoutek, Energetic Particle, The Earth's Atmosphere and
Orbital Environment.
This note covers the following topics:
Einstein's field equations, x-ray binaries and the search for black holes, the
universe, cosmic structure formation; From inflation to galaxies.
Author(s): Prof. Edmund Bertschinger and Prof. Edwin F. Taylor
Covered topics
are: What is a Galaxy?, Gravitational Potentials, Orbits in Spherical Potentials
and Integrals, Orbits in Axisymmetric Potentials,
Epicyclic Approximation, Equilibria of Stellar Systems,
Boltzmann Equation, Jeans' Equations in Spherical
Coordinates, Jeans' Equations Applied, Jeans' Theorem, Stability: Jeans Mass and
Spiral Structure, Gravitational Mirages (aka lenses) via Fermat's Principle,
Applied Gravitational Lensing, Weak
Lensing, Clusters of Galaxies, The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect, Cosmological Parameters, Growing Modes in Expanding
Universes: Jeans Redux.