The X-ray Universe
Wallace H. Tucker, Riccardo Giacconi
Beyond the range of optical perception--and of ordinary imaginings-- ..a new and violent universe lay undetected until the advent of space exploration. Supernovae, black holes, quasars and pulsars--these were the secrets of the highenergy world revealed when, for the first time, astronomers attached their instruments to rockets and lofted them beyond the earth's x-ray-absorbing atmosphere. The X-Ray Universe is the story of these explorations and the fantastic new science they brought into being. It is a first-hand account: Riccardo Giacconi is one of the principal pioneers of the field, and Wallace Tucker is a theorist who worked closely with him at many critical periods. The book carries the reader from the early days of the Naval Research Laboratory through the era of V-2 rocketry, Sputnik, and the birth of NASA, to the launching of the Einstein X-Ray Observatory. But this is by no means just a history. Behind the suspenseful, sometimes humorous details of human personality grappling with high technology lies a sophisticated exposition of current cosmology and astrophysics, from the rise and fall of the steady-state theory to the search for the missing mass of the universe.
年:
1985
出版社:
Harvard University Press
语言:
english
页:
220
ISBN 10:
0674962850
ISBN 13:
9780674962859
系列:
Harvard books on astronomy
文件:
PDF, 15.64 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1985