Multimessenger Astronomy
«“Multimessenger Astronomy offers a comprehensive and scholarly excursion through the different components of what constitutes modern astronomy and astrophysics … . The text is well-supported with photos and explanatory diagrams, though many of the images are too specialized to be fully appreciated without much more detailed descriptions of the relevant science.” (Elizabeth Griffin, The Observatory, Vol. 142 (1289), August, 2022)»
Written by a professional astronomer who has worked on a wide spectrum of topics throughout his career, this book gives a popular science level description of what has become known as multimessenger astronomy. Les mer
In the second decade of the twenty-first century astronomy has seen the beginnings of a revolution. After centuries when all our information about the Universe has come via electromagnetic waves, now several entirely new ways of exploring it have emerged. The most spectacular has been the detection of gravitational waves in 2015, but astronomy also uses neutrinos and cosmic ray particles to probe processes in the centres of stars and galaxies.
The book is strongly oriented towards measurement and technique. Widely illustrated with colourful pictures of instruments, their creators and astronomical objects, it is backed with descriptions of the underlying theories and concepts, linking predictions, observations and experiments. The thread is largely historical, although obviously it cannot be encyclopaedic. Its point of departure is the beginning of the twentieth century and it aims at being as complete as possible for the date of completion at the end of 2020.
The book addresses a wide public whose interest in science is served by magazines like Scientific American: lively, intelligent readers but without university studies in physics.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 390
- ISBN
- 9783030683719
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Om forfatteren
His interests have moved outwards from planets, via the Sun, to stars and finally galaxies. His present research is on the structure and evolution of galaxies using the wide range of instruments available at the Canary Island Observatories.
He has directed 35 PhD theses and a similar number of MSc dissertations, and has over 650 entries in the ADS astronomy publications website. His outreach activities have included hundreds of lectures to schools, universities, and amateur astronomy clubs in a dozen countries. He is the scientific director, and lecturer, at the "Jornadas Astronomicas de Almeria" which, starting in 2005, has brought high level popular astronomy to the public at an annual event at which, among others, 7 Nobel Laureates and 7 ESA and NASA astronauts have given lectures.
His research experience is unusually varied, The "Festschift" given for John to celebrate his 40 years in astronomy was entitled "Pathways through an Eclectic Universe". This wide range of knowledge makes him a suitable author for a book on Multimessenger Astronomy, in which he aims to incorporate the newest ways of observing the Universe, via neutrinos and gravitational waves, into the panoramic range of observations made using the full span of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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«“Multimessenger Astronomy offers a comprehensive and scholarly excursion through the different components of what constitutes modern astronomy and astrophysics … . The text is well-supported with photos and explanatory diagrams, though many of the images are too specialized to be fully appreciated without much more detailed descriptions of the relevant science.” (Elizabeth Griffin, The Observatory, Vol. 142 (1289), August, 2022)»