Allen's Astrophysical Quantities,9780387987460

Allen's Astrophysical Quantities

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780387987460
ISBN10: 0387987460
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher(s): Amer Inst of Physics
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Summary

This new edition of Allen's classic "Astrophysical Quantities" belongs on every astronomer's bookshelf. It has been thoroughly revised and updated by a team of internationally renowned team of astronomers and astrophysicists. Topics covered include: * General constants and units * Atoms, molecules, and spectra * Observational astronomy at all wavelengths from radio to gamma-rays, and neutrinos * Planetary astronomy: Earth, planets and satellites, and solar system small bodies * The Sun, normal stars, and stars with special characteristics * Cataclysmic and symbiotic variables, supernovae * Theoretical stellar evolution * Circumstellar and interstellar material * Star clusters, galaxies, quasars, and active galactic nuclei * Clusters and groups of galaxies * Cosmology

Table of Contents

Preface v
Contributors xv
Introduction
1(6)
Arthur N. Cox
Background
1(1)
Astronomical Symbols
2(1)
Astronomical and Astrophysical Journals
2(5)
General Constants and Units
7(20)
Arthur N. Cox
Mathematical Constants
7(1)
Physical Constants
8(4)
General Astronomical Constants
12(1)
Astronomical Constants Involving Time
13(4)
Units
17(5)
Electric and Magnetic Unit Relations
22(5)
Atoms and Molecules
27(26)
Werner Dappen
Online Databases and Other Sources
27(1)
Elements, Atomic Mass, and Solar-System Abundance
28(3)
Excitation, Ionization, and Partition Functions
31(4)
Ionization Potentials
35(1)
Electron Affinities
35(1)
Atomic Cross Sections for Electronic Collisions
35(8)
Atomic Radii
43(1)
Particles of Modern Physics
44(1)
Molecules
45(2)
Plasmas
47(6)
Spectra
53(42)
Charles Cowley
Wolfgang L. Wiese
Jeffrey Fuhr
Ludmila A. Kuznetsova
Online Database
53(1)
Terminology for Atomic States, Levels, Terms, etc.
54(3)
Electronic Configurations
57(3)
Spectrum Line Intensities
60(5)
Relative Strengths Within Multiplets
65(3)
Wavelengths and Wave Numbers
68(1)
Atomic Oscillator Strengths for Allowed Lines
69(9)
Nuclear Spin and Hyperfine Structure: Low-Level Hyperfine Transitions
78(1)
Forbidden Line Transition Probabilities
79(4)
Spectra of Diatomic Molecules
83(2)
Energy Levels
85(2)
Transitions
87(2)
Selection Rules: Dipole Radiation
89(6)
Radiation
95(26)
J. J. Keady
D. P. Kilcrease
Radiation Quantities and Interrelations
95(5)
Refractive Index and Average Polarizability
100(2)
Absorption and Scattering by Particles
102(4)
Photoionization and Recombination
106(3)
X-Ray Attenuation
109(1)
Absorption of Material of Stellar Interiors
110(4)
Absorption of Material of the Solar Photosphere
114(1)
Solar Photoionization Rates
114(1)
Free--Free Absorption and Emission
115(2)
Reflection from Metallic Mirrors
117(1)
Visual Photometry
117(4)
Radio Astronomy
121(22)
Robert M. Hjellming
Introduction
121(2)
Atmospheric Window and Sky Brightness
123(2)
Radio Wave Propagation
125(3)
Radio Telescopes and Arrays
128(3)
Radio Emission and Absorption Processes
131(9)
Radio Astronomy References
140(3)
Infrared Astronomy
143(26)
A. T. Tokunaga
Useful Equations; Units
143(1)
Atmospheric Transmission
144(2)
Background Emission
146(2)
Detectors and Signal-to-Noise Ratios
148(1)
Photometry (λ < 30 μm)
149(5)
Photometry (λ > 30 μm)
154(1)
Infrared Line List
155(3)
Dust
158(3)
Solar System
161(2)
Stars
163(1)
Extragalactic Objects
164(5)
Ultraviolet Astronomy
169(14)
Terry J. Teays
Ultraviolet Wavelengths
169(1)
Ultraviolet Astronomy Satellite Missions
170(2)
Significant Atlases and Catalogs
172(2)
Interstellar Extinction in the Ultraviolet
174(1)
Commonly Observed Ultraviolet Emission Lines
175(3)
Ultraviolet Spectral Classification
178(2)
Ultraviolet Spectrophotometric Standards
180(3)
X-Ray Astronomy
183(24)
Frederick D. Seward
Useful Conversions
183(1)
Characteristic X-Ray Transitions
184(1)
Emission Mechanisms and Spectra
184(10)
Transmission of X-Rays Through the Interstellar Medium
194(4)
Cosmic X-Ray Sources
198(5)
Diffuse Background
203(2)
X-Ray Astronomy Missions
205(2)
γ-Ray and Neutrino Astronomy
207(32)
R. E. Lingenfelter
R. E. Rothschild
Continuum Emission Processes
207(1)
Line Emission Processes
208(5)
Scattering and Absorption Processes
213(3)
Astrophysical γ-Ray Observations
216(19)
Neutrinos in Astrophysics
235(2)
Current Neutrino Observatories
237(2)
Earth
239(54)
Gerald Schubert
Richard L. Walterscheid
Oblate Ellipsoidal Reference Figure
240(1)
Mass and Moments of Inertia
240(1)
Gravitational Potential and Relation to Products of Inertia
241(2)
Topography
243(1)
Rotation (Spin) and Revolution About the Sun
244(1)
Gravity
245(1)
Geoid
245(1)
Coordinates
246(1)
Solid Body Tides
246(2)
Geological Time Scale
248(3)
Glaciations
251(1)
Plate Tectonics
252(1)
Earth Crust
252(3)
Earth Interior
255(2)
Earth Atmosphere, Dry Air at Standard Temperature and Pressure (STP)
257(1)
Composition of the Atmosphere
258(1)
Water Vapor
259(1)
Homogeneous Atmosphere, Scale Heights and Gradients
259(1)
Regions of Earth's Atmosphere and Distribution with Height
260(2)
Atmospheric Refraction and Air Path
262(3)
Atmospheric Scattering and Continuum Absorption
265(3)
Absorption by Atmospheric Gases at Visible and Infrared Wavelengths
268(2)
Thermal Emission by the Atmosphere
270(1)
Ionosphere
271(8)
Night Sky and Aurora
279(3)
Geomagnetism
282(3)
Meteorites and Craters
285(8)
Planets and Satellites
293(22)
David J. Tholen
Victor G. Tejfel
Arthur N. Cox
Planetary System
293(1)
Orbits and Physical Characteristics of Planets
294(4)
Photometry of Planets and Asteroids
298(2)
Physical Conditions on Planets
300(2)
Names, Designations, and Discoveries of Satellites
302(1)
Satellite Orbits and Physical Elements
303(5)
Moon
308(3)
Planetary Rings
311(4)
Solar System Small Bodies
315(24)
Richard P. Binzel
Martha S. Hanner
Duncan I. Steel
Asteroids or Minor Planets
315(6)
Comets
321(7)
Zodiacal Light
328(3)
Infrared Zodiacal Emission
331(2)
Meteoroids and Interplanetary Dust
333(6)
Sun
339(42)
William C. Livingston
Basic Data
340(1)
Interior Model
341(1)
Solar Oscillations
342(6)
Photospheric--Chromospheric Model
348(3)
Spectral Lines
351(2)
Spectral Distribution
353(2)
Limb Darkening
355(2)
Corona
357(5)
Solar Rotation
362(2)
Granulation
364(1)
Surface Magnetism and its Tracers
364(3)
Sunspots
367(3)
Sunspot Statistics
370(3)
Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections
373(2)
Solar Radio Emission
375(6)
Normal Stars
381(16)
John S. Drilling
Arlo U. Landolt
Stellar Quantities and Interrelations
381(2)
Spectral Classification
383(2)
Photometric Systems
385(8)
Stellar Atmospheres
393(2)
Stellar Structure
395(2)
Stars with Special Characteristics
397(32)
J. Donald Fernie
Variable Stars
398(1)
Cepheid and Cepheid-Like Variables
399(1)
Variable White Dwarf Tables
400(6)
Long-Period Variables
406(1)
Other Variables
406(1)
Rotating Variables
407(1)
T Tauri Stars
408(1)
Flare Stars
409(1)
Wolf--Rayet and Luminous Blue Variable Stars
410(3)
Be Stars
413(2)
Characteristics of Carbon-Rich Stars
415(1)
Barium, CH, and Subgiant CH Stars
416(1)
Hydrogen-Deficient Carbon Stars
417(1)
Blue Stragglers
418(1)
Peculiar A and Magnetic Stars
419(1)
Pulsars
420(2)
Galactic Black Hole Candidate X-Ray Binaries
422(2)
Double Stars
424(5)
Cataclysmic and Symbiotic Variables
429(22)
W.M. Sparks
S.G. Starrfield
E.M. Sion
S.N. Shore
G. Chanmugam
R.F. Webbink
Types of Cataclysmic Variables
429(18)
Types of Symbiotic Variables
447(4)
Supernovae
451(20)
J. Craig Wheeler
Stefano Benetti
Spectral Types
451(1)
Older Population, Type Ia Supernovae
452(2)
Young Population Supernovae
454(6)
SN 1987A
460(3)
Characteristic Spectral Lines
463(3)
Radio Supernovae
466(1)
Polarization
466(1)
Supernova Rates
467(1)
Old Supernovae, Historical Supernovae, and Supernova Remnants
468(1)
Radioactive Decay
468(3)
Star Populations and the Solar Neighborhood
471(28)
Gerard F. Gilmore
Michael Zeilik
The Nearby Stars
471(4)
The Brightest Stars
475(3)
Stellar Populations
478(2)
Star Counts at High Latitudes
480(1)
Vertical Stellar Density Profile
481(4)
Main Sequence Field Stellar Luminosity Function
485(1)
White Dwarf Luminosity Function
485(1)
Luminosity Class Distribution for Nearby Field Stars
486(1)
Mass Density in the Solar Neighborhood
487(1)
Stellar Mass Function
488(5)
Solar Motion and Kinematics of Nearby Stars
493(6)
Theoretical Stellar Evolution
499(24)
Arthur N. Cox
Stephen A. Becker
W. Dean Pesnell
Basic Equations of Stellar Structure
500(2)
Stellar Nuclear Energy Generation
502(1)
Equations of State
503(2)
Stellar Opacities
505(1)
Electron Conduction
506(1)
Element Diffusion
506(1)
Mixing in Stars
506(1)
Star Formation
507(1)
Pre-Main-Sequence Evolution
508(1)
Main-Sequence Population I Stars
509(1)
Main-Sequence Population II Stars
509(1)
Stellar Winds
509(2)
Stellar Evolution Tracks: Massive and Intermediate-Mass Stars
511(3)
Evolution to Red Giant Branch
514(1)
Horizontal Branch Evolution
514(1)
Red Giant Mass-Loss Rates
515(3)
Asymptotic Giant Branch Evolution
518(1)
White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
518(1)
Binary Star Evolution
519(1)
Theory Versus Observation in the HR Diagram
520(3)
Circumstellar and Interstellar Material
523(22)
John S. Mathis
Overview of the Interstellar Medium
523(4)
Galactic Interstellar Extinction
527(2)
Abundances in Interstellar Gas
529(1)
Line Emissions from the ISM
530(2)
H2 and Molecular Clouds
532(2)
Neutral Gas; Clouds; Depletions
534(2)
H II Regions, Ionized Gas, and the Galactic Halo
536(2)
Planetary Nebulae (PNe)
538(2)
Supernova Remnants
540(1)
Cosmic Rays (Excluding Photons and Neutrinos)
541(4)
Star Clusters
545(24)
Hugh C. Harris
William E. Harris
Open Clusters
545(9)
Globular Clusters in the Milky Way
554(8)
Globular Clusters in Other Galaxies
562(7)
Milky Way and Galaxies
569(16)
Virginia Trimble
Milky Way Galaxy
569(7)
Normal Galaxies
576(9)
Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei
585(28)
Belinda J. Wilkes
Introduction
585(1)
The Types of Active Galactic Nuclei
586(5)
Catalogs and Surveys
591(2)
Commonly Measured Parameters
593(2)
Emission Lines
595(6)
Absorption Lines
601(1)
Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs)
602(3)
Luminosity Functions and the Space Distribution of Quasars
605(2)
BL Lacs, HPQs, and OVVs
607(1)
Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (LLAGN)
608(1)
AGN Environments
608(5)
Clusters and Groups of Galaxies
613(30)
Neta A. Bahcall
Typical Properties of Clusters and Groups of Galaxies
614(1)
Cluster Catalogs
615(2)
Catalog of Nearby Rich Clusters of Galaxies
617(3)
Cluster Properties
620(5)
Cluster Classification
625(2)
cD Galaxies
627(1)
Luminosity Function of Galaxies in Clusters
627(1)
Mass Function of Clusters
628(2)
X-Ray Emission from Clusters
630(2)
The Sunyaev--Zeldovich Effect in Clusters
632(1)
Clusters and Large--Scale Structure
633(4)
Groups of Galaxies
637(2)
Quasar--Cluster Association
639(1)
Clusters as Gravitational Lenses
640(1)
Recent Results
640(3)
Cosmology
643(24)
Douglas Scott
Joseph Silk
Edward W. Kolb
Michael S. Turner
Friedmann--Robertson--Walker Metric and Distance Measures
644(2)
The Age of the Universe
646(1)
Conversion Factors for the Early Universe
647(1)
Other Useful Conversion Factors
648(1)
Cosmological Parameters
649(1)
Friedmann--Lemaitre Model
650(1)
Epochs of Interest
650(2)
Age Limits
652(1)
Cosmological Tests: Ho
653(1)
Cosmological Tests: qo
653(1)
Other Cosmological Parameters
654(1)
Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Neutrinos
654(1)
Power Spectrum of Density Fluctuations
655(1)
Structure Formation Scales
656(2)
Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies
658(1)
Large-Scale Structure
659(1)
Densities
660(1)
Velocities
661(1)
Intergalactic Medium
662(1)
Extragalactic Diffuse Backgrounds
663(4)
Incidental Tables
667(34)
Alan D. Fiala
William F. van Altena
Stephen T. Ridgway
Roger W. Sinnott
The Julian Date
667(1)
Standard Epochs
668(1)
Reduction for Precession
669(1)
Solar Coordinates and Related Quantities
670(2)
Constellations
672(2)
The Messier Objects
674(3)
Astrometry
677(10)
Optical and Infrared Interferometry
687(2)
The World's Largest Optical Telescopes
689(12)
Index 701

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