Reviews in Modern Astronomy 19
The Many Facets of the Universe - Revelations by New Instruments
Kurzbeschreibung:
Band 19 setzt die Reviews in Modern Astronomy fort, mit eingeladenen Übersichtsvorträgen und Highlight-Beiträgen, die auf der internationalen wissenschaftlichen Jahrestagung der AG in Köln 2005 mit dem Thema The Many Facets of the Universe - Revelations by New Instruments präsentiert wurden. Sie diskutieren u.a. Astrochemie, Astrobiologie, Kosmologie, Stern- und Planetenentstehung und geben einen Überblick über neue Instrumente Infrarot- und Submillimeter-Wellenlägenbereich.
Highlight: Karl-Schwarzschild-Vortrag von G. A. Tammann (Basel) The Ups and downs of the Hubble constant.
Inhalt:
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Vortrag:
The Ups and Downs of the Hubble Constant
By G. Andreas Tammann - Vortrag zum Ludwig-Biermann-Förderpreis:
High-Velocity Clouds and the Local Intergalactic Medium
By Philipp Richter - Vortrag zu Ehren von Albrecht Unsölds 100.Geburtstag:
Physics of stellar atmospheres – new aspects of old problems
By Bodo Baschek - The circumstellar environment of asymptotic giant branch stars
By Hans Olofsson - Stellar evolution of massive stars at very low metallicities
By Raphael Hirschi et al. - Multi-dimensional numerical simulations of type Ia supernova explosions
By F. K. Röpke - The Formation of Turbulent Molecular Clouds: A Modeler’s View
By Fabian Heitsch - Astrochemistry and Star Formation: Successes and Challenges
By Eric Herbst - Protoplanetary Disks and embedded Planets
By Wilhelm Kley - Search for life in the Universe – What can we learn from our own Biosphere?
By Gerda Horneck - GQ Lup and its companion
By E.W. Guenther - Progress and Perspectives in Solid State Astrophysics – From ISO to Herschel
By Thomas Posch et al. - German LOFAR – A New Era in Radio Astronomy
By Marcus Brüggen, Rainer Beck and Heino Falcke - SOFIA: The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
By Jürgen Stutzki - Astronomy with CARMA – Raising Our Sites
By Anneila Sargent and Douglas Bock
