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The black hole at the center of the Milky Way / Andreas Eckart, Rainer Schodel, Christian Straubmeier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eckart, Andreas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black holes (Astronomy).
- Black holes (Astronomy)--Observations.
- Milky Way.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Imperial College Press ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reviewing the fundamental instrumental techniques and current observational results, this book unveils the mysteries of the physical processes in the central parsec of our Milky Way: the super-massive black hole embedded in a central stellar cluster as well as the gas and dust in the circumnuclear region. The observations described cover the entire electromagnetic spectrum from decimeter radio-waves to high energy X-ray and ?-rays, and a comprehensive summary of up-to-date astrophysical interpretations is given. The emphasis is put on observational techniques, image processing aspects, and a d
- Contents:
- Preface; Contents; 1. Observational Techniques; 2. Observational Results; 3. Astrophysical Results; Appendix A Color Versions of Selected Figures; Appendix B Table of Individual Sources; Appendix C Useful Quantities; Appendix D Table of Abbreviations; Bibliogruphy; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611867041
- 9781281867049
- 1281867047
- 9781860947391
- 1860947395
- OCLC:
- 476063226
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