Zdenek Kopal S Binary Star Legacy
Download Zdenek Kopal S Binary Star Legacy PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Zdenek Kopal S Binary Star Legacy book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages.
Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy
Author: Horst Drechsel
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2005-03-22
These proceedings celebrate the achievements of the great astronomer Zdenek Kopal, and reflect the state of the art of the dynamically evolving field of binary research, which owes so much to Kopal’s pioneering work.
Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy
Author: Horst Drechsel
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2005-08-01
An international conference entitled "Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy" was held on the occasion of the late Professor Kopal's 90th birthday in his home town of Litomyšl/Czech Republic and dedicated to the memory of one of the leading astronomers of the 20th century. Professor Kopal, who devoted 60 years of his scientific life to the exploration of close binary systems, initiated a breakthrough in this field with his description of binary components as non-spherical stars deformed by gravity, with surfaces following Roche equipotentials. Such knowledge triggered the development of new branches of astrophysics dealing with the structure and evolution of close binaries and the interaction effects displayed by exciting objects such as cataclysmic variables, symbiotic stars or X-ray binaries. Contributions to this conference included praise of the achievements of a great astronomer and personal reminiscences brought forward by Kopal's former students and colleagues, and reflected the state of the art of the dynamically evolving field of binary research, which owes so much to the pioneering work of Zdenek Kopal.
Close Binaries in the 21st Century: New Opportunities and Challenges
Author: Alvaro Gimenez
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2007-04-05
This book is the proceedings of an international conference entitled "Close Binaries in the 21st Century: New Opportunities and Challenges", held in Syros island, Greece, June 27-30, 2005. The papers collected in this volume detail the latest achievements in the field and reflect the state of the art of the dynamically evolving area of binary star research.