Investigating the Universe

Papers Presented to Zden?k Kopal on the Occasion of His Retirement, September 1981

462 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Section I: Objects with High-Speed Flows.- Dynamics of the Galactic Fountain.- Optical Observations of Interstellar Shockwaves.- The Young Phenomena within the Large Magellanic Cloud.- Herbig-Haro Objects: Recent Observational and Theoretical Developments.- The Dynamical Effects of Hypersonic Stellar Winds on Interstellar Gas.- The Discovery and Observed Properties of QSO's, an Update.- Section II: Close Binary Systems.- The Algol-Type Systems.- An Analytical Approach to Contact Binary Stabilit.- The Roche Dimensions of Rotating Gaseous Disks in Close Binary Systems.- Close Binary Systems of Short Period.- Section III: Celestial Mechanics.- Bifurcations of Planar to Three-Dimensional Periodic Orbits in the Restricted Three-Body Problem.- Section IV: The Solar System.- The Role of Electrostatic Charging of Small and Intermediate Sized Bodies in the Solar System.- Section V: Modelling of Galaxies.- Interacting Galaxies.- Techniques for Simulating Galactic Collisions.- Name Index.

• ISBN: 9789027713254
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.1981
• Größe: 241 x 160 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: F D Kahn