Bloing Bubbles in the Cosmos Astronomical Winds, Jets, and Explosions [Hardcover]

Many astrophysical bodies produce winds, jets or explosions, which blow spectacular bubbles. From a nonmathematical, unifying perspective, based on the understanding of bubbles, the authors address many of the most exciting topics in modern astrophysics including supernovae, the production of structure in the Early Universe, the environments of supermassive black holes and gamma-ray bursts.

1. The First Discoveries of Astronomical Winds
2. The Magnitudes of Astronomical Quantities
3. Stellar Evolution
4. Basic Structures of Winds and Windblown Bubbles
5. Star Formation and Low-Mass Young Stellar Objects
6. Regions of High-Mass Star Formation
7. Winds from Main-Sequence and Post-Main-Sequence Stars
8. Supernovae and Their Remnants
9. Galactic Winds, Starburst Superwinds, and the Epoch of Galaxy Formation
10. Active Galaxies and Their Nuclei
11. Some Other Windy and Explosive Sources

Three astrophysicists from Leeds University diverge from many studies by focusing not on a particular source of radiation, but on a set of phenomena produced by a wide range of them. The underlying pictures required for such a study, they say, are simple, limited in type, and highly adaptable, and thus suitable to introduce non-specialists to a large swathe of astrophysics from a unifying perspective: star- forming regions, supernova, the creation of structure in the early universe, and other hot topics. --SciTech Book News