The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 that is published quarterly by Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media

- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...

. The editor-in-chief is Thierry Courvoisier. The first issue was published in April 1989.

Scope

The journal publishes invited reviews on all areas of astronomy

Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...

 and astrophysics

Astrophysics

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, including cosmic ray

Cosmic ray

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 physics, studies in the solar system

Solar System

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, astrobiology

Astrobiology

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, developments in laboratory or particle physics

Particle physics

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 directly relevant to astronomy, instrumentation

Instrumentation

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, computational or statistical methods with specific astronomical applications, and other subjects relevant to astronomy and astrophysics.

Abstracting and indexing

This journal indexed in the following databases:

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• Science Citation Index
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• Astrophysics Data System
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• ProQuest
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• SCOPUS
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• SIMBAD Astronomical Database
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See also

• Astronomy and Astrophysics
  Astronomy and Astrophysics
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• Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
  Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
  ASCA is the fourth cosmic X-ray astronomy mission by Japan's , and the second for which the United States is providing part of the scientific payload. The satellite was successfully launched on February 20, 1993. The first eight months of the ASCA mission were devoted to performance verification...
  
  
• Astronomy & Geophysics
• Advances in Space Research
  Advances in Space Research
  Advances in Space Research or ' is a peer reviewed, scientific journal that is published 27 times per year. It was established in 1981, and is the official journal of the Committee on Space Research , as well as being published by Pergamon . The Editor in Chief is J...
  
  
• Astronomy Letters
  Astronomy Letters
  Astronomy Letters is a Russian, peer reviewed, scientific journal. Presently, and in the past, this journal tends to focus its publishing efforts on original research on all aspects of modern astronomy and astrophysics...
  
  
• Astronomy Reports
  Astronomy Reports
  Astronomy Reports , is a Russian, monthly , peer reviewed , scientific journal. This journal tends to focus its publishing efforts on original research regarding astronomical topics. Other types of reporting are also included such as chronicles, proceedings of international conferences, and book...
  
  
• Earth, Moon, and Planets
  Earth, Moon, and Planets
  Earth, Moon, and Planets is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published approximately ten times per year by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established in 1969 under the title The Moon, was known as The Moon and the Planets from 1978 to 1983, and was first published under the current...