Overview
- Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems is a 6-volume compendium of modern astronomical research covering subjects of key interest to the main fields of contemporary astronomy and astrophysical cosmology
- Provides essential background and leads the reader to other seminal literature on the topics it covers
- Serves lecturers and students as material for advanced courses in astronomy
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Keywords
- Astronomical Surveys
- Astronomical techniques and data analysis
- Astronomy Reference
- Astronomy and Astrophysics Reviews
- Astronomy reference work
- Astrophysical Cosmology
- CMB Cosmic Microwave Background
- Chemical Abundances
- Compendium of Astronomy
- Dark Energy
- Dark matter
- Data reduction
- Exoplanets, detection
- Extra-solar planetary systems
- Extra-solar-system planets
- Extragalactic Astronomy
- Galactic Structure and Evolution
- Galaxy Clusters
- Gas Planets
- Globular Clusters
- Interstellar Matter and Dust
- Large Scale Structure
- Modern Astronomy reference work
- Solar and Planetary Systems
- Spectroscopy and Interferometry
- Star formation
- Stars and Stellar Systems
- Stellar populations
- Telescope Mirrors
- Telescope Optics
- Telescopes and Instrumentation
- Telescopes, receivers, CCDs
- Terrestrial Planets
About this book
Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems is a compendium of modern astronomical research covering subjects of key interest to the main fields of contemporary astronomy. The six volumes of the set edited by Terry Oswalt (Editor-in-Chief) comprise:
Volume 1: Telescopes and Instrumentation – Ian McLean (Ed.)
Volume 2: Astronomical Techniques, Software, and Data – Howard E. Bond (Ed.)
Volume 3: Solar and Stellar Planetary Systems – Linda French; Paul Kalas (Eds.)
 Volume 4: Stellar Structure and Evolution – Martin A. Barstow (Ed.)
Volume 5: Stellar Systems and Galactic Structure – Gerard Gilmore (Ed.)
Volume 6: Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology – William C. Keel (Ed.)
Each of the approximately 85 chapters is written by a practicing professional within the appropriate sub-discipline. They include sufficient background material and references to the current literature to allow one to learn enough about a specialty within astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology to get started on a practical research project. In the spirit of the series Stars and Stellar Systems published by Chicago University Press in the 1960s and 1970s each chapter of Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems stands on its own as a fundamental review of its respective sub-discipline and each volume can be used as a text or recommended reference for advanced undergraduate or postgraduate courses. Advanced students through professional astronomers in their roles as both lecturers and researchers will welcome Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems as comprehensive and pedagogical reference to astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Terry D. Oswalt, an astronomer, is Head of the Department of Physics and Space Sciences and Associate Provost for Research at Florida Institute of Technology. He has also served the U.S. National Science Foundation as program officer for Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics. He earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy at The Ohio State University specializing in photoelectric and spectroscopic studies of binary star systems, late stages of stellar evolution, minor planets, and comets.
Since coming to Florida Tech in 1982, Dr. Oswalt has taught astronomy and physics, while continuing his primary research interest in studies of collapsed stars called white dwarfs. Because such objects are very faint, this work often takes him to Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, where telescopes as large as 10-meters are available on a competitive basis to scientists.
Oswalt is the founding Chairman of the Southeast Association for Research in Astronomy, a consortium of 10 universities which operates an automated 1-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. In 2007 SARA will assume operations of a similar telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile. Oswalt also has been director of the SARA summer internship program, which brings undergraduate students from around the U.S. to the SARA facility at Kitt Peak each summer to do research in astronomy. Dr. Oswalt has written over 100 scientific articles and edits the I.A.P.P.P. Communications, an international journal for advanced amateurs, students, teachers and professionals who collaborate on research and educational projects in astronomy. He is also the editor for a three-volume set of Springer books, "The Future of Small Telescopes in the New Millennium".
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems
Editors: Ian S. McLean, Howard E. Bond, Linda M. French, Paul Kalas, Martin A. Barstow, Gerard Gilmore, William C. Keel
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 4290
Number of Illustrations: 871 b/w illustrations, 820 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: 6 volumes