This new, fourth, edition of Allen's classic Astrophysical Quantities belongs on every astronomer's bookshelf. It has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date by a team of more than ninety internationally renowned astronomers and astrophysicists. While it follows the basic format of the original, this indispensable reference has grown to more than twice the size of the earlier editions to accommodate the great strides made in astronomy and astrophysics. It includes detailed tables of the most recent data on: - General constants and units - Atoms, molecules, and spectra - Observational astronomy at all wavelengths from radio to gamma-rays, and neutrinos - Planetary astronomy: Earth, planets and satellites, and solar system small bodies - The Sun, normal stars, and stars with special characteristics - Stellar populations - Cataclysmic and symbiotic variables, supernovae - Theoretical stellar evolution - Circumstellar and interstellar material - Star clusters, galaxies, quasars, and active galactic nuclei - Clusters and groups of galaxies - Cosmology. As well as much explanatory material and extensive and up-to-date bibliographies.
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"Astrophysical Quantities - APQ to many astrophysicists - has been an essential reference book from its first publication in 1955… Finally the fourth edition has been produced. It has taken 90 contributors to duplicate Allen's heroic single-handed efforts, but the result is well worth the wait. The new book is twice the size of the previous edition and contains many new topics and extended coverage of other topics that have increased in importance in the last three decades. … the new edition of APQ promises to be as useful as the old one, and most serious astronomers will want a copy…" C.R.Kitchin
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Allen's third edition was one of those reference books that you develop a personal relationship with. It was small enough to get to know, and quirky enough to require getting to know. This fourth is a committee effort, bigger, more authoritative, more up to date. I doubt that I will develop a warm affection for it, as I did it's predecessor, but I will use it just the same.
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This handbook is a revision of the third edition of Allen's Astrophysical Quantities [1], published in 1973, with further printings in 1976, 1981, and 1983. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brackets denote powers, nearby rich clusters, binary star evolution, symbiotic variables, zodiacal emission, stellar evolution tracks, astrophysical quantities, classical novae, richness count, brightest cluster galaxy, cluster richness, nebular phase, vertical optical depth, stellar mass function, radial velocity dispersion, photoionization models, symbiotic stars, hot intracluster gas, solar radio emission, tauon neutrinos, galaxy density, dwarf novae, recurrent novae, spectral evolution, luminosity function Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Kluwer Academic, Cambridge University Press, Solar Phys, Milky Way, Athlone Press, Space Sci, University of Arizona Press, San Francisco, Astronomical Almanac, Mauna Kea, Academic Press, Conference Series, Digitized Optical Sky Surveys, Explanatory Supplement, Government Printing Office, Van Nostrand, Lecture Notes, Naval Observatory, University of Chicago Press, Mill Valley, Kitt Peak, University Science, Large Magellanic Cloud, Perihelion Orbital New!
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This handbook is a revision of the third edition of Allen's Astrophysical Quantities [1], published in 1973, with further printings in 1976, 1981, and 1983. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brackets denote powers, nearby rich clusters, binary star evolution, symbiotic variables, zodiacal emission, stellar evolution tracks, astrophysical quantities, classical novae, richness count, brightest cluster galaxy, cluster richness, nebular phase, vertical optical depth, stellar mass function, radial velocity dispersion, photoionization models, symbiotic stars, hot intracluster gas, solar radio emission, tauon neutrinos, galaxy density, dwarf novae, recurrent novae, spectral evolution, luminosity function Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Kluwer Academic, Cambridge University Press, Solar Phys, Milky Way, Athlone Press, Space Sci, University of Arizona Press, San Francisco, Astronomical Almanac, Mauna Kea, Academic Press, Conference Series, Digitized Optical Sky Surveys, Explanatory Supplement, Government Printing Office, Van Nostrand, Lecture Notes, Naval Observatory, University of Chicago Press, Mill Valley, Kitt Peak, University Science, Large Magellanic Cloud, Perihelion Orbital New!
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