Reviews in Modern Astronomy 9:

Cosmic Magnetic Fields

Contents:

• Karl Schwarzschild Lecture:
  Scaling Laws in Multiple Light Scattering under very Small Angles
  By Henk van de Hulst

• Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture:
  Gamma Rays from Compact Objects
  By Karl Mannheim

• Highlight Results from the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
  By Volker Schönfelder

• HIPPARCOS, a new Start for many Astronomical and Astrophysical Topics
  By Catherine Turon

• GAIA, the Successor of HIPPARCOS in the 21st Century
  By Ulrich Bastian and Elena Schilbach

• The Operations Model for the Very Large Telescope
  By Dietrich Baade

• The Heinrich Hertz Telescope - A New Instrument for Submillimeter-wavelength Astronomy
  By Jacob W.M. Baars and R.N. Martin

• The Extragalactic Distance Scale and the Hubble Constant: Controversies and Misconceptions
  By Lucienne Gouguenheim, L. Bottinelli, G. Theureau, G. Paturel, and P. Teerikorpi

• Why is there still Controversy on the Hubble Constant?
  By Gustav A. Tammann

• Dust in Interplanetary Space: a Component of Small Bodies in the Solar System
  By Ingrid Mann

• Production of Energetic Particles at the Heliospheric Shock - Implications for the Global Structure of the Heliosphere
  By Horst Fichtner

• Calibrating Late Stellar Evolution by means of zeta Aur Systems - Blue Loop Luminosity as a Critical Test for Core-Overshooting
  By Klaus-Peter Schröder and Peter P. Eggleton

• Jets in High-Luminosity Compact Radio Sources
  By J. Anton Zensus, Thomas P. Krichbaum, and Andrew P. Lobanov

• Positions, Motions, and Evolution of the Oldest Stellar Populations
  By Gerard Gilmore

• Modelling the Evolution of Galaxies
  By Markus Samland and Gerhard Hensler

• Fields of Activity for Astronomers and Astrophysicists in Industry - Survey and Experience in Chemical Industry
  By Josef Kallrath