Shantanu Basu, Pranav Sharma

Gebundenes Buch

Essential Astrophysics

Interstellar Medium to Stellar Remnants

Beschreibung

This book takes a reader on a tour of astronomical phenomena: from the vastness of the interstellar medium, to the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems, through to white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, the final objects of the stellar graveyard.

Autor

Shantanu Basu is an astrophysicist and a professor at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is known for research contributions on the formation of gravitationally-collapsed objects in the universe: stars, planets, brown dwarfs, and supermassive black holes. He is one of the originators of the migrating embryo scenario of episodic accretion onto young stars. He has been recognized for his teaching excellence and his contributions to the astronomical community include organizing many conferences and training schools. Pranav Sharma is an astronomer and science historian known for his work on the history of the Indian Space Program. He has curated the Space Museum at the B. M. Birla Science Centre (Hyderabad, India). He is in-charge of the history of Indo-French scientific partnership project supported by the Embassy of France in India. He is a national-award-winning science communicator and has extensively worked on the popularization of astronomy education in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780367768478
• ISBN-10: 036776847X
• Artikelnr.: 62222582