Overview
- Gives a comprehensive and coherent account of the growing field of nuclear astropyhsics
- Presents state-of-the-art understanding of how nature made the elements we are composed of
- Contains extremely useful appendices listing
- and explaining Radionuclides and their Stellar Origins
- Milestones in the Science of Cosmic Radioactivities
- Contains a glossary of Key Terms in Astronomy with Radioactivities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 812)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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The Role of Radioactivities in Astrophysics
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Specific Sources of Cosmic Isotopes
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Special Places to Observe Cosmic Isotopes
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Tools for the Study of Radioactivities in Astrophysics
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Epilogue
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Astronomy with Radioactivities
Editors: Roland Diehl, Dieter H. Hartmann, Nikos Prantzos
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12698-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-12698-7Published: 01 October 2010
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 564
Number of Illustrations: 120 b/w illustrations