Introduction to Space Research I

Syllabus

• Reasons for space research
• atmospheric windows
• planetary atmospheres
• barometric law
• albedo
• radiative transfer
• Earth as a space colony
• energy budgets
• greenhouse effect
• global winds
• clouds and conditions for their formation
• interaction with radiation - photoionization processes
• Charged particle in electric and magnetic fields
• plasma frequency, collision frequency, cyclotron frequency
• geomagnetic field and its interaction with solar wind
• Van Allen belts

Sources:

1. Van der Hucht K.A., Vaiana G., editors: New Instrumentation for Space Astronomy, Pergamon, Oxford 1978; QB 86.N48 1977
2. Stecker F.W., Trombka J.I., editors: Gamma-ray Astrophysics, NASA 1973; QB 460.G35
3. Bernacca P.L., Ruffini R., editors: Astrophysics from Spacelab, Reidel, Dordrecht 1980; QB 460.A88
4. Giacconi R., Gursky H.: X-ray Astronomy, Reidel, Dordrecht 1974; QB 472.X2

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