Radiative Processes in Astrophysics
Autor
George B. Rybicki (Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics)
, Alan P. Lightman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics)
This introduction aims to present, from a physicist's point of view, radiation processes and their applications to astrophysical phenomena and space science. It covers such topics as radiative transfer theory, relativistic covariance and kinematics.