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Abstract/Sommario: Planetary atmospheres are complex and evolving entities, as mankind is rapidly coming to realise whilst attempting to understand, forecast and mitigate human-induced climate change. In the Solar System, our neighbours Venus and Mars provide striking examples of two endpoints of planetary evolution, runaway greenhouse and loss of atmosphere to space. The variety of extra-solar planets brings a wider angle to the issue: from scorching "hot jupiters'' to ocean worlds, exo-atmospheres expl ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint : Springer Spektrum, 2013
Abstract/Sommario: All-Optical Control Setup -- Stable States with Resonant Fabry-Perot Feedback -- Control of an Unstable Stationary State -- Control of Unstable Self-Pulsations -- Controlling Chaos -- Control of a Torsionfree Orbit. - The stabilization of unstable states hidden in the dynamics of a system, in particular the control of chaos, has received much attention in the last years. Sylvia Schikora for the first time applies a well-known control method called delayed feedback control entirely in ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015
Abstract/Sommario: This book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the art of optical signal processing technologies and devices. It presents breakthrough solutions for enabling a pervasive use of optics in data communication and signal storage applications. It presents presents optical signal processing as solution to overcome the capacity crunch in communication networks. The book content ranges from the development of innovative materials and devices, such as graphene and slow light structur ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015
Abstract/Sommario: As our closest stellar companion and composed of two Sun-like stars and a third small dwarf star, Alpha Centauri is an ideal testing ground of astrophysical models and has played a central role in the history and development of modern astronomy—from the first guesses at stellar distances to understanding how our own star, the Sun, might have evolved. It is also the host of the nearest known exoplanet, an ultra-hot, Earth-like planet recently discovered. Just 4.4 light years away Alpha ...; [Leggi tutto...]
New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012
Abstract/Sommario: Preface -- Chapter 1: Claudius Ptolemy and the Almagest -- Chapter 2: The Abd-al-Rahman Al-Sufi Catalog -- Chapter 3: Ulugh Beg -- Chapter 4: The Tycho Brahe Catalog -- Chapter 5: The Johannes Hevelius Catalog -- Chapter 6: The Charles Messier Catalog -- Chapter 7: The Johann Elert Bode Catalog -- Chapter 8: Christian Mayer Catalog -- Chapter 9: The Herschel Catalogs -- Chapter 10: The J.L.E. Dreyer and the NGC Catalog -- Chapter 11: Halton Arp and the Arp Catalog -- Chapter 12: The Ca ...; [Leggi tutto...]
New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 2011
Abstract/Sommario: Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: To Buy or Build a Telescope -- Chapter 3: Telescope Types and Designs -- Chapter 4: Build a Good Copyscope -- Chapter 5: The 80mm Refractor -- Chapter 6: Newtonian Telescopes -- Chapter 7: The F17 4-Inch Refractor -- Chapter 8: Focusers, Eyepieces, Barlows, and Finders -- Chapter 9: Tubes -- Chapter 10: Building a 12.5-inch Newtonian with Rotating Cage -- Chapter 11: Ergonomic Mounts -- Chapter 12: Evaluation, Quality Testing, a ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016
Abstract/Sommario: In the first chapters the author describes how our knowledge of the position of Earth in space and time has developed, thanks to the work of many generations of astronomers and physicists. He discusses how our position in the Galaxy was discovered, and how in 1929, Hubble uncovered the fact that the Universe is expanding, leading to the picture of the Big Bang. He then explains how astronomers have found that the laws of physics that were discovered here on Earth and in the Solar Syste ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint : Springer, 2013
Abstract/Sommario: Dielectric amorphous photonics materials and structures -- Photonic quasi-crystals -- Solar cells with scattering and nanostructures -- Disordered photonic crystals -- Light localization in dielectric media -- Amorphous plasmonics -- Fabrication methods -- Structural characterization techniques -- Numerical means to describe optics in amorphous media -- Analytical and quasi-analytical treatment -- Homogenization techniques and the problem of how to deal with different length scales -- ...; [Leggi tutto...]
New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 2011
Abstract/Sommario: Preface -- Prologue -- The Evidence for Climate Change -- The Future of Energy I: Fossil Fuels -- The Future of Energy II: Renewable Energy -- Fusion: Energy from the Seawater -- Perfecting the Magnetic Bottle -- The Remarkable Tokamak -- Evolution and Physics of the Tokamak -- A Half-century of Progress -- Engineering: The Big Challenge -- Fusion Concepts for the Future -- Conclusions -- Epilogue. - Both global warming and oil shortage can be solved by controlled fusion, a clean p ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016
Abstract/Sommario: This thesis focuses on a novel radio-guided surgery technique for complete tumor resections. It describes all aspects of the intraoperative probe, as well as testing and simulation of the novel technique. The presentation develops the technique from the initial idea to realistic feasibility studies that have been the subject of a press release of the American Society of Nuclear Medicine. Just a year after completing this work, the technique has now been tested for the first time on a m ...; [Leggi tutto...]