Applying Fractals in Astronomy

ISBN-13: 9783662138489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 212 str.

Andre Heck; Jean M. Perdang

Opis

The nine review articles in this book give a fairly complete survey of the applications of fractals to astronomical and astrophysical problems. The book is self-contained and written with the particular aim of teaching graduate students how to apply fractal geometry to new problems. After ageneral introduction to the basic concepts, applications are given to astrophysical dynamical systems, to strange attractors of stellar pulsations, to the solar granular pattern, and to both the large-scale structure of the universe - a central theme of the book - and to astronomical data analysis.

Spis treści

Geometry and Dynamics of Fractal Sets.- Pulsating Stars and Fractals.- Turbulence, Fractals, and the Solar Granulation.- Fractals and the Large—Scale Galaxy Distribution.- Is the Spatial Distribution of Galaxies a Bounded Self—Similar Structure? Observational Evidences.- Fractal Aspects of Galaxy Clustering.- Fractal Properties in the Simulations of a One-Dimensional Spherically Expanding Universe.- The Fractal Structure of the Quantum Space-Time.- The Real Stuff.

O autorze

The book addresses students of astronomy and astrophysics. It is the first comprehensive presentation of fractal geometry and its application to various problems of astrophysics, including astronomical data analysis.