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The many facets of the universe : revelations by new instruments / edited by Siegfried Rèoser.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Reviews in modern astronomy ; v. 19.
- Reviews in modern astronomy ; v. 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy--Congresses.
- Astronomy.
- Astronomical instruments--Congresses.
- Astronomical instruments.
- Astrophysics--Congresses.
- Astrophysics.
- Stars--Formation--Congresses.
- Stars.
- Stars--Formation.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 343 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, [2006]
- Summary:
- Volume 19 continues the Reviews in Modern Astronomy with invited reviews and highlight contributions which were presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Astronomical Society on the topic "The Many Facets of the Universe - Revelations by New Instruments," held at the University of Cologne, Germany, September 26 - October 1, 2005. The contributions to the meeting published in this volume discuss, among other subjects, astrochemistry, astrobiology, cosmology, star and planet formation, and present overviews on new instruments in the infrared and sub-millimeter wavelength range. Highlight: Karl-Schwarzschild-Lecture by G. A. Tammann (Basel) "The Ups and downs of the Hubble constant,"
- Contents:
- Karl Schwarzschild Lecture: The Ups and Downs of the Hubble Constant / G. Andreas Tammann 1
- Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture: High-Velocity Clouds and the Local Intergalactic Medium / Philipp Richter 31
- Talk in honor of Albrecht Unsold's 100th anniversary: Physics of stellar atmospheres - new aspects of old problems / Bodo Baschek 61
- The circumstellar environment of asymptotic giant branch stars / Hans Olofsson 75
- Stellar evolution of massive stars at very low metallicities / Raphael Hirschi et al. 101
- Multi-dimensional numerical simulations of type Ia supernova explosions / F. K. Ropke 127
- The Formation of Turbulent Molecular Clouds: A Modeler's View / Fabian Heitsch 157
- Astrochemistry and Star Formation: Successes and Challenges / Eric Herbst 167
- Protoplanetary Disks and embedded Planets / Wilhelm Kley 195
- Search for life in the Universe - What can we learn from our own Biosphere? / Gerda Horneck 215
- GQ Lup and its companion / E.W. Guenther 237
- Progress and Perspectives in Solid State Astrophysics - From ISO to Herschel / Thomas Posch et al. 251
- German LOFAR - A New Era in Radio Astronomy / Marcus Bruggen, Rainer Beck, Heino Falcke 277
- SOFIA: The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy / Jurgen Stutzki 293
- Astronomy with CARMA - Raising Our Sites / Anneila Sargent, Douglas Bock 315.
- Notes:
- "Volume 19 continues the series with twelve invited reviews ... which were presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on ... held at Kèolln, Germany, September 25 to October 1, 2005"--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Craig M. Merrihue Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 352740662X
- OCLC:
- 70779199
- Publisher Number:
- 9783527406623
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