To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Reference  Physical Sciences  Cosmology & Astronomy

Accretion Processes in Astrophysics

By: Ignacio González Martínez-País(Editor), Tariq Shahbaz(Editor), Jorge Casares Velázquez(Editor)
426 pages, 140 b/w illustrations
Accretion Processes in Astrophysics
Click to have a closer look
  • Accretion Processes in Astrophysics ISBN: 9781107030190 Hardback Feb 2014 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £90.99
    #204309
Price: £90.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Biography Related titles

About this book

It has been more than fifty years since the first significant paper on accretion flows was written. In recent years, X-ray satellites capable of identifying accretion disks and radiation jets – indications that accretion has taken place – have significantly advanced our understanding of these phenomena. Accretion Processes in Astrophysics presents a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the major theoretical and observational topics associated with accretion processes in astrophysics.

Comprising lectures presented at the twenty-first Winter School of the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics, Accretion Processes in Astrophysics emphasises the physical aspects of accretion, investigating how radiation jets are produced, how accretion power is divided between jets and radiated energy, the geometry of accretion flow, and the accretion processes of active galactic nuclei. Written by an international team of experienced scientists, chapters offer young researchers key analytical tools for supporting and carrying out the next generation of front-line research.

Contents

List of contributors
List of participants
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

1. Accretion disks Henk Spruit
2. The evolution of binary systems Philipp Podsiadlowski
3. Accretion onto white dwarfs Brian Warner
4. Accretion in X-ray binary systems Robert I. Hynes
5. X-ray binary populations in galaxies Giuseppina Fabbiano
6. Observational characteristics of accretion onto black holes I Chris Done
7. Observational characteristics of accretion onto black holes II Rob Fender
8. Computing black hole accretion John F. Hawley

Appendix: Piazzi Smyth, the Cape of Good Hope, Tenerife and the siting of large telescopes Brian Warner

Customer Reviews

Biography

Ignacio González Martínez-País is Lecturer at the Astrophysics Department of La Laguna University and Staff Researcher at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. His main research interests include the study of compact binaries in which accretion takes place: cataclysmic variables (harbouring a white dwarf as the accreting object) and X-ray binaries (harbouring a neutron star or black hole). He has extensive experience teaching related subjects such as general physics, fluid mechanics, differential equations, astrophysical instrumentation, observational techniques and accretion processes.

Tariq Shahbaz is Staff Scientist at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, where his research focuses on the study of compact objects, such as neutron stars and black holes, and determining their masses by developing methods to model the observed lightcurves and spectra. His other research interests include high time resolution phenomena and X-ray binaries. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union.

Jorge Casares Velázquez is Staff Scientist at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. His research focuses on the study of galactic black holes, with emphasis on the determination of their dynamical masses. He has promoted novel strategies for deriving fundamental parameters in X-ray binaries by exploiting the reprocessing of X-rays into optical line radiation. His other research interests include the study of gamma-ray binaries, cataclysmic variables and millisecond pulsars. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and the Spanish Astronomical Society.

By: Ignacio González Martínez-País(Editor), Tariq Shahbaz(Editor), Jorge Casares Velázquez(Editor)
426 pages, 140 b/w illustrations
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides