<i>Errata</i> - Handbook of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Errata - Handbook of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3rd edition, 2007

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. - Plutarch

All errors found in the book, including typographical errors, are listed. Substantive errors are marked by an asterisk, *.

Foreword: 2nd para., "radioactivity" should read "radiation".
Page 16: bottom of page, "http://pdg.lbl.gov/2002/astorpp.pdf" should read "http://pdg.lbl.gov/"
Page 27: table heading, "short list" should read "very short list".
Page 77: bottom of page, "The 150 Stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue with Highest Apparent Magnitude," should read "See the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues."
Page 82: bottom of page, "The 150 Stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue with Highest Apparent Magnitude, http://astro.estec.esa.nl/Hipparcos/table365-new.html" should read "See the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues."
Page 85: bottom of page, "The 150 Stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue Closest to the Sun, http://astro.estec.esa.nl/Hipparcos/table361.html" should read "See the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues."
Page 86: bottom of page, "The 150 Stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue with Largest Proper Motion, http://astro.estec.esa.nl/Hipparcos/table362.html" should read "See the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues."
Page 91: bottom of page, "http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/Volume4/2001-4will/, 2002" should read "http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/author.html".
Page 120: "Starlight 0.7 x 10^-12 erg cm^-2" should read "Starlight 0.7 x 10^-12 erg cm^-3".
Page 152: "Ussoeld" should read "Unsoeld".
Page 205: "(From Evans & Hagfors)" should read "(From Evans, J.V. and Hagfors, T., Radar Astronomy, New York, McGraw Hill, 1968)".
Page 209: "(From Thorsett, S.E. ЕЕЕ..)" should read "(Figure courtesy of D. Chakrabarty, MIT)".
Page 209: "Loves, F.J. et al., 1979, Ap, J. (Suppl.), 41, 451." should read "Recommended Rest Frequencies for Observed Interstellar Molecular Transitions, Lovas, F.J., et al., Ap. J. Suppl., 41, 451, 1979"
Page 237: "ApJS, 102" should read "Ap. J. Suppl., 102".
Page 268: 6th column in table, add "2-10 keV"
Page 269: "Lx" should read "Lx".
Page 287: "ApJS" should read "Ap. J. Suppl."
Page 313: "(Е.. in Physics Today, October 1974.)" should read (Е.. in Physics Today, October 1974, with permission)"
Page 314: "(Е.. in Physics Today, October 1974.)" should read (Е.. in Physics Today, October 1974, with permission)"
Page 315, "(From Physics Today, January 1998.)" should read (From Physics Today, January 1998, with permission)"
Page 330: "(From Lean, J., ЕЕЕ.. Annual Reviews, Inc.)" should read (From Lean, J., ЕЕЕ.. Annual Reviews, Inc., with permission)"
Page 357: "Carroll, S.M., ЕЕЕЕ.. Astron. Astrophys., 1992." should read "Carroll, S.M., ЕЕЕЕ.. Astron. Astrophys., vol. 30, 1992"
Page 419: "(From Feldman, L.C. ЕЕЕЕЕЕ Inc., 1986.)" should read (From Feldman, L.C. ЕЕЕЕЕЕ Inc., 1986, with permission.)"
Page 495: "(1 atmos.; 760 Torr)" should read "(1 atmos.: 760 Torr)"
Page 505: In the table heading, "Thomsom" should read "Thomson" and "Lorel" should read "Loral".
Page 532: "Matter and Methods at Law ЕЕЕ. 1996." should read "Matter and Methods at Low ЕЕЕ. 1996."
Page 532: "Measurement and detection of Radiation".....)" should read "Measurement and Detection of Radiation".....)"
Page 532: "Scientific Foundations of Vacuum Techniques, Dushnivi, S., ЕЕ" should be "Scientific Foundations of Vacuum Techniques, Dushman, S., ЕЕ"
Page 532: "Techniques for Nuclear antiparticle Physics Experiments, Е.." "Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments, Е.."
Page 532: "Vacuum Technology and Space Simulation, NASA SP- 1 05, Е" should read "Vacuum Technology and Space Simulation, NASA SP-105, Е"
Page 532: "X-ray Interactions ..... Guilikson ....." should read "X-ray Interactions ЕЕЕ Gullikson Е.."
Page 649: "mkdir" should read "mkdir directoryname"
Page 649: "rmdir" should read "rmdir directoryname"
Page 656: 2nd table, "set C is contained with set E as a subclass" should read "set C is contained within set E as a subclass".
Page 683: "Freeman" should read "Freedman"; all superscripts in "Description" column should be removed.
Page 685: "Freeman" in two instances should read "Freedman".
Page 714: "**List of ground-based- and" should read "*List of ground-based and".
Page 741: 1st para., "_secsh" should read "secsh".
Page 744: 1st para., "rsh" should read "rsh".
Page 745: 6th para., "On-The-Go-Supplement" should read "On-The-Go-Supplement".
Page 756, "Cosmology, 450-465" should read "Cosmology, 350-366".
Page 762, "Е standard system, 139" should read "Е standard system, 139, 224".

Last revised - 11 September 2007

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