From the Sun to the Great Attractor 1999 Guanajuato Lectures on Astrophysics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Page, Dany (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hirsch, Jorge G. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 556
• Subjects: Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

The enormous advances in observational techniques over the last two decades has produced a wealth of data and unexpected discoveries which have helped to reshape astrophysics as a field with well-formulated theories and sophisticated numerical calculations. In nuclear particle physics, plasma physic...

Table of Contents:

• Solar Physics: From the Deep Interior to the Hot Corona
• Precision Laboratory Measurements in Nuclear Astrophysics
• The Generation of Cosmic Magnetic Fields
• Neutron Stars and Strong-Field Effects of General Relativity
• Gamma Ray Astronomy at High Energies
• Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics
• Particle and Astrophysical Aspects of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays
• Galaxies Behind the Milky Way and the Great Attractor.