Papers, etc.

Other References: Historical

Badalyan, O.G. & M.A. Lifshits, “Solar Corona: From Shklovsky to our Days,” Astrophysics & Space Science 252, 317 (1997).

Friedman, Herbert, “Joseph Shklovsky and X-Ray Astronomy,” in Kardashev, N.S., ed., Astrophysics on the Threshold of the 21st Century (Gordon & Breach, 1992).

Ginzburg, V.L., “Remarks on My Work in Radio Astronomy,” in The Early Years of Radio Astronomy: Reflections Fifty Years after Jansky’s Discovery, W.T. Sullivan III, ed. (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1984).

Ginzburg, V.L., “Notes of an Amateur Astrophysicist,” Ann. Rev. Astr. Astrophys. 28, 1-36 (1990).

Goldberg, Leo, “Josif Shklovsky: A Personal Reflection,” Sky & Telescope 70, 109 (1985).

Kardashev, N.S., & L.S. Marochnik,  “The Shklovskii Phenomenon” in Kardashev, N.S., ed., Astrophysics on the Threshold of the 21st Century (Gordon & Breach, 1992). [also in Astronomy Quarterly 7 4, 219-242 (1990).]

Kovalev, Yu. A. & Y.Y. Kovalev, “On the Nature of Variability of Extragalactic Radio Sources: Fundamental Ideas by I.S. Shklovsky,” Astrophysics & Space Science 252, 133 (1997).

McCutcheon, Robert, et al, eds. “Astronomy under the Soviets,” JHA 26, 4 (Nov 1995) [whole issue].

Medvedev, Z.A., Soviet Science (W.W. Norton, NY, 1978).

Moroz, Vasilii I., “A Short Story about the Doctor,” Astrophysics & Space Science B252, 1/2, 5-14 (1997).

Nikolskaya, K.I., “Shklovsky's Ideas and the Recent Study of the Solar Corona,” Astronomical & Astrophysical Transactions 18, 1, 305-07 (1999).

Shklovskii, I.S., “On the History of the Development of Radio Astronomy in the USSR.” News on Life, Science, and Technology. no. 11 (Izd. Znanie, Moscow, 1982) [in Russian].

Shklovskii, I.S., “Twenty Years of X-ray Astronomy,“ Priroda, Sept. 1982, p. 10-20 [in Russian].

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, History of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute [in Russian]
http://comet.sai.msu.ru/radio/history.rhtml.ru

Sobolev, V.V., ed., The History of Astronomy in Russia and the USSR (Janus-K, Moscow, 1999). [in Russian]

Strelnitski, Vladimir S., “The Early Post-War History of Soviet Radio Astronomy,” J. Hist. Astron. 26, 349-62 (1995).

Swift, D.W., SETI Pioneers (U. of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 1990), p. 167-77.

van de Hulst, H.C., “Two Great Astrophysicists: Some Personal Reflections” in Kardashev, N.S., ed., Astrophysics on the Threshold of the 21st Century (Gordon & Breach, 1992). [Shklovskii and S.B. Pikel’ner]

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Other References:Scientific

Stevens-Rayburn, Sarah, The History of Radio Astronomy: A Bibliography 1898-1983
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Rayburn/frames.html

Sagan, Carl, ed., Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1973) [proceedings of a conference held at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, 1971, includes contributions by Shklovskii, who was one of the organizers].

Shklovskii, I.S., “On the Emission of Radio Waves by the Galaxy and by Upper Layers of the Solar Atmosphere,” Astron. Zh. 23, 333 (1946) [in Russian].

Shklovskii, I.S., “The Current Status of the Problem of the Nature of the Solar Corona,” Uspekhi Fiz. Nauk 30, 63 (1946) [in Russian].

Shklovskii, I.S., “Monochromatic Radio Emission from the Galaxy and the Possibility of its Observation,” Astron. Zh. 26, 10 (1949); reprinted in Classics in Radio Astronomy, W.T. Sullivan III, ed., (D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1982), 318-24.

Shklovskii, Iosif Samuilovich, The Solar Corona (GITTL, Moscow, 1951) [in Russian].

Shklovskii, I.S., “Radio Stars,” Doklady Akad. Nauk SSSR 79, 423 (1951) [in Russian].

Shklovskii, I.S., “On the Nature of Galactic Radio Emission,” Astron. Zh. 29, 418 (1952) [in Russian].

Shklovskii, I.S., “The Problem of Cosmic Radio Emission,” Astron. Zh. 30, 15 (1953) [in Russian].

Shklovskii, I.S., “On the Nature of the Crab Nebula’s Optical Emission,” Doklady Akad. Nauk SSSR 90, 983 (1953) [in Russian; translated with commentary in Lang, Kenneth R. & Owen Gingerich, eds., A Source Book in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 1900-1975 Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1979),488-93.

Shklovskii, I.S., “On the Nature of Planetary Nebulae,” in Non-Stable Stars, Proceedings from IAU Symposium no. 3 held in Dublin, Sept. 1, 1955, George H. Herbig, ed., (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1957), 83-86.

Shklovskii, I.S., “Optical emission from the Crab nebula in the continuous spectrum,” in Radio Astronomy, Proceedings from IAU Symposium no. 4, H.C. van de Hulst, ed., (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1957), 201-04.

Shklovskii, I.S., “On the Nature of the Emission from the Galaxy NGC 4486,” in Radio Astronomy, Proceedings from IAU Symposium no. 4, H.C. van de Hulst, ed., (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1957), 205-09.

Shklovskii, I.S., “Some Problems of Metagalactic Radio-Emission,” in Radio Astronomy, Proceedings from IAU Symposium no. 4, H.C. van de Hulst, ed., (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1957), 241-43.

Pikel’ner, S.B. & I.S. Shklovskii, “An Investigation of the Properties and Energy Dissipation of the Gaseous Galactic Corona” Sov. Astron. 1, 149 (1957).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Once More on the Distances to Planetary Nebulae and the Evolution of Their Nuclei,” Sov. Astron. 1, 397 (1957).

Shklovskii, I.S., “On the Nature of the Optical Emission from the Crab Nebula,” Sov. Astron. 1, 690 (1957).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Models of the Solar Chromosphere,” Sov. Astron. 2, 32 (1958).

Pikel’ner, S.B., I.S. Shklovskii, & G.S. Ivanov-Kholodnyi,“On Possible Mechanisms of Emission of Discrete Galactic Objects in the Spectral Region 1225-1350 A.” Sov. Astron. 3, 263 (1959).

Shklovskii, I.S., V.F. Esipov, V.G. Kurt, V.I. Moroz, & P.V. Shcheglov, “An Artificial Comet,” Sov. Astron. 3, 986 (1959) [This is the paper for which Shklovskii was awarded the Lenin Prize].

Shklovskii, I.S., “The Nature of Supernovae,” Sov. Astron. 4, 355 (1960).

Gringauz, K.I., V.G. Kurt, V.I. Moroz, & I.S. Shklovskii, “Results of Observations of Charged Particles Observed Out to R = 100,000 km, with the Aid of Charged-Particle Traps on Soviet Space Rockets,” Sov. Astron. 4, 680 (1961).

Shklovskii, Iosif Samuilovich, Cosmic Radio Waves (English translation: Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1960).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Radio Galaxies,” Sov. Astron. 4, 885 (1961).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Nature of Jets in Radio Galaxies,” Sov. Astron. 7, 748 (1964).

Shklovskii, Iosif Samuilovich, Physics of the Solar Corona (GIFML, Moscow, 1962; English translation: Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK, 1965).

Shklovskii, I.S., Nature 206, 176 (1965).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Quasistellar Objects and Seyfert Galaxies,” Sov. Astron. 9, 683 (1966).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Remarks on the Synchrotron-Radiation Spectrum of the Crab Nebula,” Sov. Astron. 10, 6 (1966).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Possible Maser Effect in Clouds of Interstellar Hydrogen in the Galactic Corona,” Sov. Astron. 11, 240 (1967).

Shklovskii, I.S. & Carl Sagan, Intelligent Life in the Universe (Holden-Day, San Francisco, 1968). [This is Sagan’s greatly expanded translation of Shklovskii’s 1962 book. A new version of Shklovskii’s book, with a collection of memoirs of Shklovskii’s sixty disciples and colleagues was published in Russian in 1996.]

Shklovsky, I. S., Supernovae (English translation: Wiley, NY, 1968).

Shklovskii, I.S., “The Origin of Absorption Lines in the Spectra of Quasistellar Objects,” Sov. Astron. 13, 734 (1970).

Shklovskii, I.S., “The Nature of the Outbursts in Quasars and Seyfert-Galaxy Nuclei,” Sov. Astron. 14, 594 (1971).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Analysis of Gamma and Synchrotron Radiation of the Galaxy and the Origin of Cosmic Rays” Sov. Astron. 18, 677-79 (1976) [abstract].

Shklovskii, I.S., “Is the Galactic Nucleus a Black Hole?” Sov. Astron. Lett. 1, 135-36 (1975).

Shklovskii, I.S., “The Problem of Extraterrestrial Civilizations and its Philosophical Aspects. I,” Astronomie und Raumfahrt 4, 97-104 (1976) [in German] [abstract].

Shklovskii, I.S., “Evolution of Radio Sources Associated with Supernova Remnants” Sov. Astron. Lett. 2, 95-96 (1976).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Origin of the Pecularities in the Crab Nebula” Sov. Astron. 20, 422 (1976).

Shklovskii, I.S., “The Sources of Hard X-ray Bursts” Sov. Astron. Lett. 2, 188-90 (1976).

Shklovskii, I.S., “On the Injection of Relativistic Particles into the Crab Nebula,” Sov. Astron. 21, 371-74 (1977) [abstract].

Shklovskii, I.S., “Bursters - A New Type of X-ray Source or a Property of Old X-ray Pulsars” Sov. Astron. Lett. 4, 140-44 (1978).

Shklovskii, I.S., “The Relationship between Supernovae and their Remnants” PASP 92, 125-26 (1980).

Shklovskii, I.S., “The Nature of the Emission Regions in M87” Sov. Astron. Lett. 6, 107-09 (1980).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Type I Supernovae,” Soviet Scientific Reviews, Section E: Astrophysics and Space Physics Reviews 1, 177-204 (1981).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Planetary nebulae,“ Priroda, July 1981, p. 3-13 [in Russian].

Shklovsky, I. S., Problems in Modern Astrophysics (Izdatel'stvo Nauka, Moscow, 1982) [collection of previously published articles, in Russian].

Shklovskii, I.S., “Does the Activity at the Galactic Center Stem from a Recent Supernova?” Sov. Astron. Lett. 9, 182-84 (1983).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Cosmological Estimate of the Age of Stars Exploding as Type I Supernovae,” Nature 304, 513 (1983).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Why are There No Type-II Supernovae in Irregular Galaxies?” Sov. Astron. Lett. 10, 302-03 (1984).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Synchrotron Self-Absorption of the Radio Emission of Supernova 1983.51,” Sov. Astron. Lett. 11, 105-06 (1985).

Shklovskii, I. S & I.G. Mitrofanov, “On the Astronomical Nature of the Sources of Gamma-Ray Bursts,” MNRAS 212, 545-51 (1985).

Shklovskii, I.S., “Comments on the Frequency of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Civilizations,” in Problem of the Search for Life in the Universe (Izdatel'stvo Nauka, Moscow, 1986), p. 21-25 [in Russian].

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Other Works: Popularizations, Fiction, etc.

Shklovskii, I. S., The Universe, Life, Reason (Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1962, 1965, 1973, 1976, 1987) [in Russian].

Shklovskii, I. S., Stars: Their Birth, Life, and Death (English translation: W. H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco, 1978).

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