An invitation to astrophysics:
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Hackensack, N.J. [u.a.]
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| Physical Description: | XIX, 362 S. graph. Darst. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9789812566386 9812566872 |
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^^FTJP -!- / ,~- AN MITDTION TO & %)- TROPHYSICS THANU
PADMANABHAN INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS,
INDIA WORLD SCIENTIFIC NEW JERSEY * LONDON * SINGAPORE * BEIJING *
SHANGHAI * HONG KONG * TAIPEI * CHENNAI CONTENTS PREFACE VII PROLOGUE
XI 1. GRAVITATION 1 1.1 ORBITS IN NEWTONIAN GRAVITY 3 1.2 PRECESSION AND
TIDES 11 1.3 VIRIAL THEOREM 19 1.4 GRAVITATIONAL COLLISIONS AND
RELAXATION 25 1.5 RELATIVISTIC GRAVITY 28 1.6 GRAVITATIONAL LENSING 34
2. RADIATIVE PROCESSES 43 2.1 THE ORIGIN OF RADIATION - 43 2.1.1
RADIATION IN CLASSICAL THEORY 1-. . . . . 43 2.1.2 RADIATION IN QUANTUM
THEORY 46 2.2 THERMAL RADIATION 49 2.3 MONOCHROMATIC PLANE WAVE 52 2.4
ASTROPHYSICAL RADIATIVE PROCESSES 59 2.4.1 THERMAL BREMSSTRAHLUNG . 59
2.4.2 SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 63 2.4.3 INVERSE COMPTON SCATTERING 67 2.5
RADIATIVE PROCESSES IN QUANTUM THEORY 74 2.5.1 ENERGY LEVELS 75 2.5.2
TRANSITION RATES AND CROSS SECTIONS 80 XVIII AN INVITATION TO
ASTROPHYSICS 2.5.3 IONISATION AND RECOMBINATION 83 2.5.4 SPECTRAL LINE
PROFILES 87 3. MATTER 95 3.1 EQUATIONS OF STATE 95 3.2 SELF-GRAVITATING
BAROTROPIC FLUIDS 101 3.3 FLOWS OF MATTER 106 3.3.1 SPHERICAL ACCRETION
106 3.3.2 ACCRETION DISKS ILL 3.3.3 SHOCK WAVES AND EXPLOSIONS 114 3.3.4
TURBULENCE 117 3.4 BASIC PLASMA PHYSICS 120 3.4.1 IONISATION EQUILIBRIUM
OF PLASMA 120 3.4.2 ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS IN PLASMA 125 4. STARS AND
STELLAR EVOLUTION 135 4.1 WHEN IS GRAVITY IMPORTANT? 135 4.2 STELLAR
MAGNITUDES AND COLOURS 139 4.3 MODELING STELLAR STRUCTURE 147 4.4 THE
SUN AS A STAR 157 4.5 OVERVIEW OF STELLAR EVOLUTION 162 4.5.1 FORMATION
OF A MAIN SEQUENCE STAR 162 4.5.2 LIFE HISTORY OF A STAR 166 5. RELICS
OF STARS 179 5.1 SUPERNOVA REMNANTS 179 5.2 WHITE DWARFS .-,... 188 5.3
NEUTRON STARS AND PULSARS *-... 193 5.4 BLACK HOLES 196 5.5 COMPACT
REMNANTS IN STELLAR BINARIES 202 6. COSMOLOGY AND THE EARLY UNIVERSE 211
6.1 EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE ; 211 6.2 PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS 222
6.3 DECOUPLING OF MATTER AND RADIATION 230 6.4 FORMATION OF DARK MATTER
HALOS 233 6.5 GENERATION OF INITIAL PERTURBATIONS 242 6.6 TEMPERATURE
ANISOTROPIES IN THE CMBR . . 251 CONTENTS XIX 7. UNIVERSE AT Z 20 261
7.1 GALAXY FORMATION 261 7.2 STAR FORMATION HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE 268
7.3 INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM AND THE GUNN-PETERSON EFFECT ...-..- 272 7.4
IONISATION OF IGM 274 8. NORMAL GALAXIES 281 8.1 MORPHOLOGICAL
CLASSIFICATION OF GALAXIES 281 8.1.1 PROPERTIES OF DISK GALAXIES 283
8.1.2 ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF GALAXIES 288 8.1.3 PROPERTIES OF ELLIPTICAL
GALAXIES 291 8.2 MODELS FOR STELLAR DISTRIBUTION IN A GALAXY 294 8.2.1
LANE-EMDEN MODELS 296 8.2.2 ISOTHERMAL AND KING MODELS 296 8.2.3 DISK
MODELS 298 8.3 SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION OF GALAXIES 299 8.4 THE
EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES 302 8.5 LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OF GALAXIES 305 8.6
DISTRIBUTION OF GALAXIES 310 9. ACTIVE GALAXIES 317 9.1 AGN: BASIC
PARADIGM AND THE SPECTRA 317 9.2 RADIO JETS AND BULK RELATIVISTIC MOTION
324 9.3 QUASAR LUMINOSITY FUNCTION 329 9.4 NEUTRAL HYDROGEN IN THE
INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM 334 9.4.1 LYMAN FOREST 336 9.4.2 DAMPED LYMAN ALPHA
CLOUDS 339 APPENDIX 0 RANGE OF PHYSICAL QUANTITIES IN ASTROPHYSICS 347
BIBLIOGRAPHY 353 INDEX 357
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*P. ; WORLD SCIENTIFIC SERIES IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS - VOL. 8
^^FTJP"-!- ' ' / ,~-'' AN MITDTION TO & '%)- TROPHYSICS THANU
PADMANABHAN INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS,
INDIA WORLD SCIENTIFIC NEW JERSEY * LONDON * SINGAPORE * BEIJING *
SHANGHAI * HONG KONG * TAIPEI * CHENNAI CONTENTS PREFACE ' VII PROLOGUE
XI 1. GRAVITATION 1 1.1 ORBITS IN NEWTONIAN GRAVITY 3 1.2 PRECESSION AND
TIDES 11 1.3 VIRIAL THEOREM 19 1.4 GRAVITATIONAL COLLISIONS AND
RELAXATION 25 1.5 RELATIVISTIC GRAVITY 28 1.6 GRAVITATIONAL LENSING 34
2. RADIATIVE PROCESSES 43 2.1 THE ORIGIN OF RADIATION - 43 2.1.1
RADIATION IN CLASSICAL THEORY 1-. . . . . 43 2.1.2 RADIATION IN QUANTUM
THEORY 46 2.2 THERMAL RADIATION 49 2.3 MONOCHROMATIC PLANE WAVE 52 2.4
ASTROPHYSICAL RADIATIVE PROCESSES 59 2.4.1 THERMAL BREMSSTRAHLUNG . 59
2.4.2 SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 63 2.4.3 INVERSE COMPTON SCATTERING 67 2.5
RADIATIVE PROCESSES IN QUANTUM THEORY 74 2.5.1 ENERGY LEVELS 75 2.5.2
TRANSITION RATES AND CROSS SECTIONS 80 XVIII AN INVITATION TO
ASTROPHYSICS 2.5.3 IONISATION AND RECOMBINATION 83 2.5.4 SPECTRAL LINE
PROFILES 87 3. MATTER 95 3.1 EQUATIONS OF STATE 95 3.2 SELF-GRAVITATING
BAROTROPIC FLUIDS 101 3.3 FLOWS OF MATTER 106 3.3.1 SPHERICAL ACCRETION
106 3.3.2 ACCRETION DISKS ILL 3.3.3 SHOCK WAVES AND EXPLOSIONS 114 3.3.4
TURBULENCE 117 3.4 BASIC PLASMA PHYSICS 120 3.4.1 IONISATION EQUILIBRIUM
OF PLASMA 120 3.4.2 ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS IN PLASMA 125 4. STARS AND
STELLAR EVOLUTION 135 4.1 WHEN IS GRAVITY IMPORTANT? 135 4.2 STELLAR
MAGNITUDES AND COLOURS 139 4.3 MODELING STELLAR STRUCTURE 147 4.4 THE
SUN AS A STAR 157 4.5 OVERVIEW OF STELLAR EVOLUTION 162 4.5.1 FORMATION
OF A MAIN SEQUENCE STAR 162 4.5.2 LIFE HISTORY OF A STAR 166 5. RELICS
OF STARS 179 5.1 SUPERNOVA REMNANTS 179 5.2 WHITE DWARFS .-,. 188 5.3
NEUTRON STARS AND PULSARS '*-. 193 5.4 BLACK HOLES 196 5.5 COMPACT
REMNANTS IN STELLAR BINARIES 202 6. COSMOLOGY AND THE EARLY UNIVERSE 211
6.1 EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE '; 211 6.2 PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS 222
6.3 DECOUPLING OF MATTER AND RADIATION 230 6.4 FORMATION OF DARK MATTER
HALOS 233 6.5 GENERATION OF INITIAL PERTURBATIONS 242 6.6 TEMPERATURE
ANISOTROPIES IN THE CMBR . . 251 CONTENTS XIX 7. UNIVERSE AT Z 20 261
7.1 GALAXY FORMATION 261 7.2 STAR FORMATION HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE 268
7.3 INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM AND THE GUNN-PETERSON EFFECT .-.- 272 7.4
IONISATION OF IGM 274 8. NORMAL GALAXIES 281 8.1 MORPHOLOGICAL
CLASSIFICATION OF GALAXIES 281 8.1.1 PROPERTIES OF DISK GALAXIES 283
8.1.2 ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF GALAXIES 288 8.1.3 PROPERTIES OF ELLIPTICAL
GALAXIES 291 8.2 MODELS FOR STELLAR DISTRIBUTION IN A GALAXY 294 8.2.1
LANE-EMDEN MODELS 296 8.2.2 ISOTHERMAL AND KING MODELS 296 8.2.3 DISK
MODELS 298 8.3 SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION OF GALAXIES 299 8.4 THE
EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES 302 8.5 LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OF GALAXIES 305 8.6
DISTRIBUTION OF GALAXIES 310 9. ACTIVE GALAXIES 317 9.1 AGN: BASIC
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INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM 334 9.4.1 LYMAN FOREST 336 9.4.2 DAMPED LYMAN ALPHA
CLOUDS 339 APPENDIX 0 RANGE OF PHYSICAL QUANTITIES IN ASTROPHYSICS 347
BIBLIOGRAPHY 353 INDEX 357 |
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