Welcome to the ESO Library.
Main Classification Groups:
- A - 1 Bibliography, Year Books, Institutes
- A 1-1 Bibliography
- A 1-2 Yearbooks
- A 1-3 Institutes
- A 1-4 Societies, Organizations
- A 1-5 Meetings, Collections
- A - 2 History of Astronomy
- A 2-1 General Literature
- A 2-2 Biography
- A 2-3 Miscellanea
- A - 3 Astronomy in General / Related Fields
- A 3-1 Handbooks, Astronomy Dictionaries
- A 3-2 Symposium and Colloquium Series, Compendia, Review Series
- A 3-3 Textbooks
- A 3-4 General Literature, Introductions
- A 3-5 Teaching of Astronomy
- A 3-6 Popular Astronomy
- A 3-7 Astrology, Mythology
- A 3-8 Extraterrestrial Life, Astrobiology
- A 3-9 Festschriften
- A - 4 Instrumentation
- A 4-1 Ancient Instruments, History of Telescopes
- A 4-2 Telescopes and Domes in General / User Manuals
- A 4-3 Optics
- A 4-4 Electronics
- A 4-5 Photography
- A 4-6 Mechanical Design
- A 4-7 Chronometry
- A 4-8 Spectroscopy
- A 4-9 Infrared Techniques
- A 4-10 Accessoires
- A 4-11 Measuring Instruments and Techniques
- A 4-12 Other Instrumental Fields
- A 4-13 Photoelectric Devices / Image Tubes / CCD
- A 4-14 Site Selection
- A 4-15 Electronic Imaging Devices
- A 4-16 Interferometry
- A - 5 Positional Astronomy
- A 5-1 Spherical Astronomy
- A 5-2 Astrometry
- A 5-3 Catalogs of Accurate Positions and Proper Motions
- A 5-4 Star Maps, Charts, Atlases
- A 5-5 Almanacs, Calendars, Ephemeris
- A 5-6 Geodetic Astronomy, Navigation
- A 5-7 Latitude Service
- A 5-8 Rotation of the Earth
- A 5-9 General
- A 5-10 Meridian Astronomy
- A - 6 Celestical Mechanics, Orbit Determination
- A 6-1 General
- A 6-2 Celestial Mechanics
- A 6-3 Determination of Orbits
- A - 7 Theoretical Astrophysics
- A 7-1 Basic and General Problems
- A 7-2 Magnetic Fields, Synchrotron Radiation
- A 7-3 Radiative Transfer
- A 7-4 Stellar Atmospheres
- A 7-5 Planetary Atmospheres
- A 7-6 Nuclear Processes
- A 7-7 Stellar Constitution and Evolution
- A 7-8 Planetary Constitution
- A 7-9 High Energy
- A 7-10 Plasma Astrophysics
- A 7-11 Accretion
- A - 8 Radio Astronomy
- A 8-1 Textbooks, General Books
- A 8-2 Techniques
- A 8-3 Theory
- A 8-4 Radio Telescopes
- A 8-5 Interstellar Chemistry
- A 8-6 Radiosources
- A 8-7 Submillimetre Astronomy
- A - 9 Cosmic Rays, X-Rays, Gamma-Rays, UV Radiation, etc.
- A 9-1 Cosmic Radiation
- A 9-2 X-Rays
- A 9-3 Gamma-Rays
- A 9-4 Ultraviolet Radiation
- A 9-5 Infrared Radiation
- A 9-6 General
- A - 10 Space Research, Especially Techniques
- A 10-1 General
- A 10-2 Space Optics
- A 10-3 ESA, NASA, Space Missions, Astronomy from Space
- A 10-4 Remote Sensing
- A - 11 The Sun
- A 11-1 Basic and General Problems
- A 11-2 Solar Eclipses
- A 11-3 Solar Survey
- A 11-4 Photosphere, Spectrum, Granulation
- A 11-5 Sunspots, Faculae, Solar Activity
- A 11-6 Chromosphere, Flares, Prominences
- A 11-7 Corona
- A 11-8 Electromagnetic and Corpuscular Radiation
- A 11-9 Radio Observations
- A 11-10 Helioseismology
- A - 12 The Earth
- A 12-1 General
- A 12-2 Structure of the Earth
- A 12-3 Atmosphere, Ionosphere
- A 12-4 Magnetic Fields
- A 12-5 Further Influences of the Sun and Moon
- A 12-6 Meteorology
- A - 13 The Moon
- A 13-1 General
- A 13-2 Maps
- A 13-3 Surface
- A 13-4 Lunar Eclipses
- A 13-5 Lunar Exploration
- A - 14 The Planets, Planetary Systems, and Extrasolar Planets
- A 14-1 Planetary Systems, Extrasolar Planets, Cosmogony
- A 14-2 Mercury, Venus, Mars
- A 14-3 Minor Planets, Asteroids
- A 14-4 Jupiter, Saturn
- A 14-5 Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Trans-Plutonian Planet
- A 14-6 Planetary Atmospheres
- A 14-7 Planetary Interiors
- A - 15 Interplanetary Objects
- A 15-1 General
- A 15-2 Comets
- A 15-3 Meteors and Meteorites
- A 15-4 Interplanetary Matter, Zodiacal Light
- A 15-5 Solar Wind
- A - 16 Large Star Catalogs
- A 16-1 Durchmusterung
- A 16-2 Selected Areas
- A 16-3 Other
- A - 17 Stars in General
- A 17-1 General
- A 17-2 Parallaxes, Distances including Parallax Catalogs
- A 17-3 Motions including Radial Velocity Catalogs
- A 17-4 Photometry including Photometric Catalogs
- A 17-5 Spectra, Colors including Catalogs
- A 17-6 Luminosities, Masses, Radii, Diagrams
- A 17-7 Figure, Rotation
- A 17-8 Atmospheres: Observational Studies (Abundances, Magnetic Fields)
- A 17-9 Chromospheres, Coroni, Winds, Mass-Loss
- A 17-10 Polarization
- A 17-11 White Dwarfs
- A 17-12 Neutron Stars
- A 17-13 Star Birth, Early Stellar Evolution
- A - 18 Double Stars, Eclipsing Binaries
- A 18-1 General
- A 18-2 Visual Double Stars including Catalogs
- A 18-3 Eclipsing Binaries including Catalogs
- A 18-4 Spectroscopic Binaries including Catalogs
- A 18-5 Multiple Stars
- A - 19 Variable Stars
- A 19-1 General Catalogs of Variable Stars, Ephemeris
- A 19-2 General
- A 19-3 Cepheids, RR Lyrae Variables
- A 19-4 Other Variable Stars
- A 19-5 Lists of Observations, Individual Observations
- A 19-6 Novae, Cataclysmic Variables
- A 19-7 Supernovae
- A 19-8 X-Ray Binaries
- A - 20 Interstellar Matter, Planetary Nebulae
- A 20-1 General
- A 20-2 Planetary Nebulae
- A 20-3 Emission Nebulae
- A 20-4 Reflection Nebulae
- A 20-5 Dark Nebulae
- A 20-6 Astrochemistry
- A 20-7 Interstellar Medium, Molecular Clouds
- A - 21 Star Clusters
- A 21-1 General
- A 21-2 Catalogs of Clusters
- A 21-3 Globular Clusters
- A 21-4 Open Clusters
- A 21-5 Associations
- A 21-6 Loose Groups
- A 21-7 Dynamics of Clusters
- A - 22 Structure and Dynamics of the Galaxy
- A 22-1 General
- A 22-2 Galactic Structure
- A 22-3 Galactic Kinematics and Dynamics
- A - 23 Dynamics of Stellar Systems
- A 23-1 General
- A - 24 Extragalactic Systems
- A 24-1 Catalogs
- A 24-2 General
- A 24-3 Magellanic Clouds
- A 24-4 Individual Galaxies (incl. Disks and Bars)
- A 24-5 Nuclei of Galaxies, AGNs, Jets
- A 24-6 Clusters of Galaxies
- A 24-7 Radio Galaxies
- A 24-8 Photometry of Galaxies
- A 24-9 Halos etc.
- A 24-10 Active Galaxies, Seyferts
- A 24-11 Intergalactic Medium
- A 24-12 Infrared Galaxies
- A - 25 Quasars and Other Peculiar Objects
- A 25-1 General
- A 25-2 Quasi Stellar Systems, QSO, Quasars
- A 25-3 Pulsars
- A 25-4 Black Holes
- A - 26 Cosmology
- A 26-1 General
- A 26-2 Theoretical, Particle Astrophysics
- A 26-3 Observational
Astronomy
- E 1 Project Management
- E 1-1 General
- E 1-2 Network Planning
- E 1-3 Quality Control
- E 2 Technical Handbooks
- E 2-1 General
- E 2-2 Technical Dictionaries
- E 2-3 Technical Glossaries
- E 3 Mechanics
- E 3-1 General
- E 3-2 Materials
- E 3-3 Mechanics of Materials
- E 3-4 Vacuum Technology
- E 3-5 Standards
- E 3-6 Thermodynamics
- E 3-7 Machinery
- E 4 Electricity
- E 4-1 General
- E 4-2 Official Regulations
- E 4-3 Materials and Installation
- E 5 Electronics
- E 5-1 General
- E 5-2 Theoretical Engineering
- E 5-3 Tubes
- E 5-4 Semiconductors
- E 5-5 Supraconductors
- E 5-6 Integrated Circuits
- E 5-7 Circuitry
- E 5-8 Logic
- E 5-9 Pulse Technique
- E 5-10 Digital Technique
- E 5-11 Systems Engineering
- E 5-12 Servo Technique
- E 5-13 Control and Automation
- E 5-14 Instrumentation
- E 5-15 Propagation Communication
- E 5-16 Materials and Integration
- E 5-17 Microcircuits and Packaging
- E 5-18 Signal Processing
- E 5-19 Image Processing
- E 5-20 Opto-electronics
- E 5-21 Standards
- E 5-22 Power supply
- E 5-23 High frequency technics
- E 6 Computers
- E 6-1 General
- E 6-2 Hardware, Computer Systems Hardware
- E 6-3 Software, Operating Systems and Languages
- E 6-4 Computer Storage Devices
- E 6-5 Software: Application Programs
- E 6-6 Communications, WWW, HTML, XML etc.
- E 6-7 CAD (Computer Aided Design)
- E 6-8 Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Virtual Reality
- E 6-9 Retrieval and Databases
- E 6-10 Parallel and Vector Processing, Algorithms
- E 7 Civil Engineering
- E 7-1 General
- E 7-2 Structure
- E 7-3 Second Work
- E 7-4 Heating, Airconditioning
- E 7-5 Electricity
- E 7-6 Piping and Sanitaries
- E 7-7 Handling Equipment
Engineering / Computers
- H - 1 Dictionaries (non-technical)
- H - 2 Organizational Matters, Organizational Behavior
- H - 3 Bibliographies (non-astronomical)
- H - 4 Library Matters
- H - 5 Varia
- H - 6 Safety
- H - 7 Leadership
- H - 8 Management
- H - 9 Time Management
- H - 10 Negotiation, Mediation
Handbooks / Dictionaries
- M 1 Algebra
- M 1-1 General
- M 1-2 Group Theory
- M 1-3 Linear Algebra
- M 1-4 Universal Algebra
- M 2 Analysis
- M 2-1 General
- M 2-2 Real and Complex Analysis
- M 2-3 Functional Analysis
- M 2-4 Differential Equations
- M 2-5 Integral Equations
- M 3 Measure Theory
- M 3-1 General
- M 4 Topology
- M 4-1 General Topology
- M 4-2 Topological Groups
- M 4-3 Algebraic Topology
- M 4-4 Differential Topology
- M 5 Geometry
- M 5-1 Pure Geometry
- M 5-2 Algebraic Geometry
- M 5-3 Differential Geometry
- M 5-4 Fractal Geometry
- M 6 Foundations of Mathematics
- M 6-1 Logics
- M 6-2 History
- M 7 Statistics, Information Theory, Combinatorics
- M 7-1 Statistics
- M 7-2 Information Theory
- M 7-3 Graph Theory
- M 8 Applied Mathematics
- M 8-1 General
- M 8-2 Computer Theory
- M 8-3 Numerical Methods
- M 8-4 Mathematical Analysis
- M 8-5 Image Processing (Data Analysis)
- M 9 Mathematical Tables
- M 9-1 Trigonometric Functions
- M 9-2 Other Functions
- M 10 Mathematical Handbooks, etc.
- M 10-1 General Mathematical Handbooks
- M 10-2 Mathematical Problems
Mathematics
- PH 1 General
- PH 1-1 Handbooks
- PH 1-2 Textbooks (general)
- PH 1-3 Textbooks (experimental), Practical Physics
- PH 1-4 Textbooks (theoretical Physics)
- PH 1-5 Textbooks (mathematical Physics)
- PH 1-6 Tables, Formulae, Units
- PH 1-7 Popular Physics, General Literature
- PH 1-8 Philosophy of Science, Concepts
- PH 1-9 Biographies
- PH 2 Mechanics
- PH 2-1 General
- PH 2-2 Dynamics
- PH 2-3 Statistical Mechanics
- PH 2-4 Fluid Mechanics and Dynamics
- PH 3 Thermodynamics
- PH 3-1 General
- PH 4 Gasdynamics: Plasma Physics
- PH 4-1 General
- PH 4-2 Gas Dynamics
- PH 4-3 Plasma Physics
- PH 5 Optics
- PH 5-1 General
- PH 5-2 Theoretical Optics
- PH 5-3 Optical Instruments, general
- PH 5-4 Testing of Optics, Scattering, Standards
- PH 5-5 Optical Tables
- PH 5-6 Refraction
- PH 5-7 Interferometry
- PH 5-8 Spectroscopy
- PH 5-9 Polarization
- PH 5-10 Holography
- PH 5-11 Proceedings
- PH 5-12 Quantum Optics
- PH 5-13 Fiber Optics, Optical Waveguides
- PH 5-14 Diffraction
- PH 5-15 Optical Technology
- PH 5-16 Optical Remote Sensing
- PH 5-17 Radiometry and Photometry
- PH 5-18 Adaptive Optics
- PH 5-19 Active Optics
- PH 6 Electricity and Magnetism
- PH 6-1 General
- PH 6-2 Electricity
- PH 6-3 Magnetism
- PH 6-4 Electronics
- PH 6-5 Transistors
- PH 7 Atomic, Molecular and Quantum Physics
- PH 7-1 General
- PH 7-2 Atomic Physics
- PH 7-3 Molecular Physics
- PH 7-4 Quantum Physics
- PH 7-5 Atomic Spectra
- PH 7-6 Molecular Spectra
- PH 7-7 Atomic Processes
- PH 7-8 Molecular Processes
- PH 8 Nuclear Physics
- PH 8-1 General
- PH 8-2 Nuclear Processes
- PH 9 High Energy Physics
- PH 9-1 General
- PH 9-2 Accelerators
- PH 9-3 Cosmic Rays
- PH 9-4 Gamma Ray Physics
- PH 9-5 X-Ray Physics
- PH 10 Theory of Relativity
- PH 10-1 General
- PH 10-2 Gravitation
- PH 11 Solid State Physics
- PH 11-1 General
- PH 11-2 Conductivity
- PH 11-3 Cristallography
- PH 11-4 Lasers and Masers
- PH 12 Technical Physics
- PH 12-1 General
- PH 13 Infrared Physics
- PH 13-1 General
- PH 13-2 Infrared Instrumentation and Techniques
- PH 14 Ultraviolet Physics
- PH 14-1 General
- PH 15 Physical Chemistry
- PH 15-1 General
- PH 16 Image-Recording and Photography
- PH 16-1 General
- PH 16-2 Documentation
- PH 16-3 Image Recording
- PH 17 Hydrodynamics
- PH 17-1 General
Physics