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Hypersonic meteoroid entry physics /
"Version: 20190301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Considerations on meteoroid entry physics. part I. Meteoroid and meteorite science. 2. The trajectory, structure and origin of the Chelyabinsk impactor -- 2.1. Trajectory -- 2.2. Structure -- 2.3. Origin -- 2.4. Implications3. Properties of meteoroids from forward scatter radio observations -- 3.1. Radio meteor theory …
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Principles of multimessenger astronomy /
"Version: 202109"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to multimessenger astronomy : fusing intellect and technology through telescopes -- 1.1. Dream big -- 1.2. Four astrophysical messengers -- 1.3. A brief history of telescopes : from 1608 to neutrino and gravitational wave telescopes -- 1.4. Locations : from city to space2. Electromagnetic radiation -- 2.1. U…
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Multimessenger astronomy in practice /
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Multimessenger astronomy in practice : celestial sources in action / Miroslav D. Filipovi?c, Jeffrey L Payne and Nicholas F.H. Tothill -- 2. Long-wave (radio) astronomy with coherent detection from radio to THz / Natasha Hurley-Walker, Jeffrey L Payne, Miroslav D. Filipovi?c and Nicholas Tothill -- 3. Long-wave astronom…
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The cosmic 21-cm revolution :charting the first billion years of our universe /
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Theoretical framework : the fundamentals of the 21 cm line -- 1.1. Radiative transfer of the 21 cm line -- 1.2. The spin temperature -- 1.3. Heating of the intergalactic medium2. Astrophysics from the 21 cm background -- 2.1. Properties of the high-z intergalactic medium -- 2.2. Sources of the UV and x-ray background -…
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Proton beam therapy /
"Version: 20170101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 23).Introduction -- Why proton beams? -- Technical challenges -- Physics challenges -- Biological challenges -- Clinical challenges -- Outlook.Cancer therapy is a multi-modality approach including surgery, systemic or targeted chemotherapy, radiation (external beam or radionuclide), and immunotherapy. Radiation is t…
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The dark universe /
"Version: 20170201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Background -- Dark matter -- Dark energy -- Flat [lambda]CDM and the cosmological parameters of the Universe -- Current directions -- Weak gravitational lensing -- Baryon acoustic oscillations -- Galaxy clusters -- Redshift space distortions -- Outlook.Just over 95% of our Universe comes in the shrouded fo…
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Common envelope evolution /
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why do we think common-envelope evolution happens? -- 1.2. Why is common-envelope evolution broadly important? -- 1.3. Why is modeling common-envelope evolution difficult?2. Main phases -- 2.1. Characteristic timescales -- 2.2. Phase I : the loss of orbital stability and the onset of the common env…
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Lens design :automatic and quasi-autonomous computational methods and techniq…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Why is lens design hard? -- 1.2. How to use this book2. Fundamentals -- 2.1. Paraxial optics -- 2.2. Lagrange invariant, thin-lens equation -- 2.3. Pupils3. Aberrations -- 3.1. Ray-fan curves -- 3.2. Abbe sine condition -- 3.3. Higher-order aberrations -- 3.4. Spot diagrams -- 3.5. Wavefronts and …
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Astrophysical recipes :the art of AMUSE /
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What is computational astrophysics? -- 1.1. Computational astrophysics -- 1.2. A brief history of simulations in astrophysics -- 1.3. Software used in this book -- 1.4. Initial conditions2. Gravitational dynamics -- 2.1. In a nutshell -- 2.2. N-body integration strategies -- 2.3. Gravity solvers in AMUSE -- 2.4. Exampl…
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Motions of celestial bodies :computer simulations /
"Version: 20141001"--Title page verso.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction : getting started -- List of the simulation programs -- How to operate the simulation programs -- Keplerian motions in celestial mechanics -- Numerical and analytical methodsReview of the simulations -- Kepler's laws -- Kepler's first law -- Kepler's second law -- Kepler's third law -- The approximate nature of Ke…
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