Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #828745 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 719 pages

Review
"Astrophysical Quantities - APQ to many astrophysicists - has been an essential reference book from its first publication in 1955a ] Finally the fourth edition has been produced. It has taken 90 contributors to duplicate Allen's heroic single-handed efforts, but the result is well worth the wait. The new book is twice the size of the previous edition and contains many new topics and extended coverage of other topics that have increased in importance in the last three decades... the new edition of APQ promises to be as useful as the old one, and most serious astronomers will want a copya ]"

C.R.Kitchin in 'Astronomy Now'