Reviews in Modern Astronomy
Vol. 16: The Cosmic Circuit of Matter
Reviews in Modern Astronomy (Series Nr. 16)
1. Edition June 2003
X, 320 Pages, Hardcover
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Monograph
Short Description
The 16th volume in the annual series on recent developments and scientific progress in astronomy and astrophysics contains thirteen invited reviews presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on "The Cosmic Circuit of Matter", held in Berlin, Germany. Readers also learn about the lecture on the behaviour of stars by infrared interferometry given by Charles H. Townes, Berkeley, USA who was awarded the Karl Schwarzschild medal 2002.
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The 16th volume in the annual series on recent developments and scientific progress in astronomy and astrophysics contains thirteen invited reviews presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on "The Cosmic Circuit of Matter", held in Berlin, Germany. Readers also learn about the lecture on the behaviour of stars by infrared interferometry given by Charles H. Townes, Berkeley, USA who was awarded the Karl Schwarzschild medal 2002. Further contributions on the topic provide, among other, the latest results on the Solar atmosphere, formation of stars, substellar objects, galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
- The Behavior of Stars Observed by Infrared Interferometry
Charles H. Townes
- Star Formation in Turbulent Interstellar Gas
Ralf S. Klessen
- Dynamics of Small Scale Motions in the Solar Photosphere
Arnold Hanslmeier
- Circuit of Dust in Substellar Objects
Christiane Helling
- Hot Stars: Old-Fashioned or Trendy
A. W. A. Pauldrach
- Gas und Dust Mass Loss of O-rich AGB-stars
Franz Kerschbaum et al.
- Finding the Most Metal-poor Stars of the Galactic Halo with the Hamburg/ESO Objecrive-prism Survey
Norbert Christlieb
- A Tale of Bars und Starbursts: Dense Gas in the Central Regions of Galaxies
Susanne Hüttemeister
- Tip-AGB Mass-Loss on the Galactic Scale
Klaus-Peter Schröder
- The Dusty Sight of Galaxies: ISOPHOT Surveys of Normal Galaxies, ULIRIGS, and Quasars
Ulrich Klaas
- Abundance Evolution with Cosmic Time
James W. Truran
- Matter and Energy in Clusters of Galaxies as Probes for Galaxy and Large-Scale Structure formation in the Universe
Hans Böhringer
Universitäts-Sternwarte Jena, University of Jena, Germany
in association with
The Astronomical Society of Germany
