Thoroughly revised and expanded throughout, the new edition is a graduate-level text and reference book on gaseous nebulae, nova and supernova remnants. Much of the new data and new images are from the Hubble Space Telescope with two wholly new chapters being added along with other new features. The previous edition which was tried and tested for thirty years has now been succeeded by a revised, updated, larger edition, which will be valuable to anyone seriously interested in astrophysics.
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"Highly recommended for seniors and graduate students in physics and astronomy, and as an up-to-date reference book." --Choice
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Excellent introduction for the researcher.,
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This review is from: Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei (Hardcover)
Very complete and interesting, this book is aimed to the graduate student or the researcher that wants to delve into this subject. It is the perfect starting point for people interested in beginning research in the physics of gaseous nebulae and active galactic nuclei. Obviously, since some effort is required to the reader, due to the complexity of the matters treated, some background in mathematics and physics is required to get the best out of it
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Very good treatment of Plasma ionization,
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This review is from: Astrophysics Of Gaseous Nebulae And Active Galactic Nuclei (Hardcover)
This book is an update of a classic from the 70's with material on galactic centers added. It is just good physical astronomy and has the spectroscopic concepts for observations of very distant objects.
The diagrams are updated from the older version as well. More extensive indexes and other new material make it also a good long term reference book.
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I could never get into this book.,
This review is from: Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei (Hardcover)
Perhaps it was just the professor, but I could never get into this book. I think its hopelessly boring, and like alot of graduate textbooks in astro, it has a TERRIBLE index. You can't find anything you need in terms of numbers or equations with the index, you must read the book cover to cover to know where something is.It also has way too many numbers scattered in tables, and you must read the chapter to know what assumptions were made when he calculated those numbers. Our entire class had such a difficult time with homework using this book that I doubt any of us would give a good review of the book. My own research is in AGN, and for the most part he does OK in explaining them but he can confuse you in comparing them.
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Many important topics in astrophysics involve the physics of ionized gases and the interpretation of their emission-line spectra. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hydrogen ionization front, model nebulae, nebular astrophysics, neutral condensations, downward radiative transitions, collision strengths, nova shells, nebular temperatures, collisionally excited lines, nebular emission lines, collisional deexcitation, planetary nebulae, featureless continuum, optical spectral region, stellar radiation field, ionizing photons, effective recombination coefficient, photoionization models, interstellar extinction, ionization structure, ionized volume, recombination lines, rovibrational transitions, ionizing continuum, gaseous nebulae Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Crab Nebula, Cygnus Loop, Cambridge University Press, San Francisco, Milky Way, Homunculus Nebula, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Big Bang, New York, Allende Prieto, Large Magellanic Cloud, Lick Observatory, Phys Rev, Small Magellanic Cloud New!
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hydrogen ionization front, model nebulae, nebular astrophysics, neutral condensations, downward radiative transitions, collision strengths, nova shells, nebular temperatures, collisionally excited lines, nebular emission lines, collisional deexcitation, planetary nebulae, featureless continuum, optical spectral region, stellar radiation field, ionizing photons, effective recombination coefficient, photoionization models, interstellar extinction, ionization structure, ionized volume, recombination lines, rovibrational transitions, ionizing continuum, gaseous nebulae Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Crab Nebula, Cygnus Loop, Cambridge University Press, San Francisco, Milky Way, Homunculus Nebula, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Big Bang, New York, Allende Prieto, Large Magellanic Cloud, Lick Observatory, Phys Rev, Small Magellanic Cloud New!
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- Planetary Nebulae (International Astronomical Union Symposia) by R. Weinberger on page 175, page 272, and page 273
- Planetary Nebulae (International Astronomical Union Symposia) by Harm J. Habing on page 175, page 272, and page 274
- Planetary Nebulae: Observations and Theory (International Astronomical Union Symposia) by Y. Terzian on page 44, and page 272
- Active Galactic Nuclei (International Astronomical Union Symposia) by D.E. Osterbrock on page 350, and page 391
- The Opacity Project, Volume 2: Selected research papers - Atomic Data Tables for S to Fe by Opacity Project Team on page 65, and Back Matter
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- The Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium by A. G. G. M. Tielens on 6 pages
- The Analysis of Emission Lines (Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series) by Robert Williams on 5 pages
- Handbook of Infrared Astronomy (Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers) by I. S. Glass on page 24, page 104, and Back Matter
- The Physics of Galactic Halos by Harald Lesch on page 65, and page 78
- Advanced Lectures on the Starburst-AGN Connection by Advanced Lectures on the Starburst-Agn Connection on page 66, and page 164
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