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  title info:
    title: Fundamental Astronomy
  name:
    name part: Karttunen, Hannu.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kröger, Pekka.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Oja, Heikki.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Poutanen, Markku.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Donner, Karl Johan.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2007
    edition: Fifth Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 510 p. online resource.
  abstract: Fundamental Astronomy gives a well-balanced and comprehensive introduction to the topics of classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, the text provides a sound basis for more profound studies in the astronomical sciences. The fifth edition of this successful undergraduate textbook has been extensively modernized and extended in the parts dealing with the Milky Way, extragalactic astronomy and cosmology as well as with extrasolar planets and the solar system (as a consequence of recent results from satellite missions and the new definition by the International Astronomical Union of planets, dwarf planets and small solar-system bodies). Furthermore a new chapter on astrobiology has been added. Long considered a standard text for physical science majors, Fundamental Astronomy is also an excellent reference and entrée for dedicated amateur astronomers.
  table of contents: Spherical Astronomy -- Observations and Instruments -- Photometric Concepts and Magnitudes -- Radiation Mechanisms -- Celestial Mechanics -- The Solar System -- Stellar Spectra -- Binary Stars and Stellar Masses -- Stellar Structure -- Stellar Evolution -- The Sun -- Variable Stars -- Compact Stars -- The Interstellar Medium -- Star Clusters and Associations -- The Milky Way -- Galaxies -- Cosmology -- Astrobiology.
  note: edited by Hannu Karttunen, Pekka Kröger, Heikki Oja, Markku Poutanen, Karl Johan Donner.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics and Astroparticles
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics/Geodesy
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: QB980-991
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540341444
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34144-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204155246.0
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