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Bridging the gap between physics and astronomy textbooks, this book provides step-by-step physical and mathematical development of fundamental astrophysical processes underlying a wide range of phenomena in stellar, galactic, and extragalactic astronomy. The book has been written for upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students, and its strong pedagogy ensures solid mastery of each process and application. It contains over 150 tutorial figures, numerous examples of astronomical measurements, and 201 exercises. Topics covered include the Kepler-Newton problem, stellar structure, binary evolution, radiation processes, special relativity in astronomy, radio propagation in the interstellar medium, and gravitational lensing. Applications presented include Jeans length, Eddington luminosity, the cooling of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, Doppler boosting in jets, and determinations of the Hubble constant. This text is a stepping stone to more specialized books and primary literature. Password-protected solutions to the exercises are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521846561.

Astrophysics --- Astrophysics. --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics

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Astronomie. --- Astrophysique. --- Astronomy --- Astrophysics --- Astronomical physics --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Physical sciences --- Space sciences --- Astronomie --- Astrophysique

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Astrophysics --- 521.03 --- -Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- 521.03 Theoretical astronomy. Celestial mechanics--?.03 --- Theoretical astronomy. Celestial mechanics--?.03 --- Tables --- Tables. --- -Tables --- -521.03 Theoretical astronomy. Celestial mechanics--?.03 --- Astronomical physics --- Astrophysics - Tables

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Is the Sun and its planetary system special? How did the Solar system form? Are there similar systems in the Galaxy? How common are habitable planets? What processes take place in the early life of stars and in their surrounding circumstellar disks that could impact whether life emerges or not? This book is based on the lectures by Philip Armitage and Wilhelm Kley presented at 45th Saas-Fee Advanced Course „From Protoplanetary Disks to Planet Formation“ of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. The first part deals with the physical processes occurring in proto-planetary disks starting with the observational context, structure and evolution of the proto-planetary disk, turbulence and accretion, particle evolution and structure formation. The second part covers planet formation and disk-planet interactions. This includes in detail dust and planetesimal formation, growth to protoplanets, terrestrial planet formation, giant planet formation, migration of planets, multi-planet systems and circumbinary planets. As Saas-Fee advanced course this book offers PhD students an in-depth treatment of the topic enabling them to enter on a research project in the field.

Planetary science. --- Planetology. --- Astrophysics and Astroparticles. --- Planetary Sciences. --- Planetary sciences --- Planetology --- Astrophysics. --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics

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Astrofysica --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomische fysica --- Astrophysics --- Astrophysique --- Fysica [Astronomische ] --- Physics [Astronomical ] --- Physique astronomique --- Astrophysicists --- Thuan, Trinh Xuan --- 540 --- physique --- sterrenkunde --- astronomie --- Astrophysicists - Vietnam