The non-sleeping universe
Subtitle: proceedings of two conferences on 'Stars and the ISM' held from 24-26 November, 1997 and on 'From Galaxies to the Horizon' held from 27-29 November, 1997 at the Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto, Portugal
By: edited by M.T.V.T. Lago and A. Blanchard
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789401059237; 9789401144971
Subjects: Astrophysics; Congresses; Stars; Cosmology
Other titles: Astrophysics and space science.
Description: This volume contains the proceedings of two conferences. The first part covers 'The Non-Sleeping Universe: Stars and the ISM', and has activity as the underlying theme. It reviews the current status of astroseismology, stellar rotation and activity. Highlights include the time behaviour of phenomena related to activity, both in the case of the Sun and of its much younger analogues, in view of the results of recent space missions. It also examines the diagnostic tools and the models, once again for the Sun and young low mass stars, including the jets and flows closely associated with those stars during the extreme phases of pre-main-sequence evolution. <br/> The second part comprises 'The Non-Sleeping Universe: from Galaxies to the Horizon'. It covers topics ranging from high energy phenomena on galactic scales, such as gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei and intense periods of star formation, to competing models which attempt to explain the formation of large-scale structures in the Universe. It also addresses the theory of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation and their present observational status, together with the connection between the evolution of the number density of galaxy clusters with time and the present value of the matter density in the Universe. <br/> The book is therefore unique in providing an overview of recent developments in a variety of areas, often kept separated, covering a very wide range of spatial and temporal scales.
Notes: "Reprinted from Astrophysics and space science, volume 261, nos. 1-4, 1998/1999."

Includes bibliographical references.