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Informationen zum Autor Michael D. Smith was raised in the Northeast and the Chicago area, then moved to Texas to attend Rice University, where he began developing as a writer and visual artist. His Jack Commer, Supreme Commander science fiction series is published by Sortmind Press. In addition, Sortmind Press has published Smith's literary novels Sortmind, The Soul Institute, CommWealth, Akard Drearstone, Jump Grenade, and Asylum and Mirage.Smith's website, https://sortmind.com, contains further examples of his novels and visual art, and he muses about writing and art processes at https://blog.sortmind.com. Klappentext Astrophysical jets are spectacular displays of gas or dust ejected from a range of cosmic bodies; they are seemingly ubiquitous on scales from comets to black holes. This volume reviews our understanding of jet processes and provides a modern guide to their observation and the role they play in many long-standing problems in astrophysics. It covers the major discoveries in gamma-ray bursts, solar and stellar jets and cometary jets. Specific physical processes for all classes of jet are illustrated and discussed in depth, as a backdrop to explaining spectacular jet images. Current jet models raise as many issues as they solve, so the final chapter looks at the new questions to be answered. Written at an entry level for postgraduate students, this volume incorporates introductions to all the governing physics, providing a comprehensive and insightful guide to the study of jets for researchers across all branches of astrophysics.Written at a level that assumes no prior knowledge, this text is a comprehensive and insightful guide to the study of jets on all scales. Suitable for researchers across all branches of astrophysics, it discusses our current understanding of jet processes and reviews major discoveries, observations and jet models. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Detection and measurement; 3. The dynamical toolbox; 4. Observations of extragalactic jets; 5. Jets in galactic nuclei; 6. Jets from young stars and protostars; 7. Jets associated with evolved stars; 8. Jets within the solar system; 9. Jet launching; 10. Jet propagation; 11. New questions; Index....
