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Reviews in Modern Astronomy 18:
From Cosmological Structures to the Milky Way

Desription:

Volume 18 continues the Reviews in Modern Astronomy with twelve invited reviews and highlight contributions which were presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Astronomical Society on the topic From Cosmological Structures to the Milky Way, held in Prague, Czech Republic, September 20 to 25, 2004.
The contributions to the meeting published in this volume discuss, among other subjects, X-ray astronomy, cosmology, star formation and the Galactic Centre.

Table of Contents:

• Karl Schwarzschild Lecture:
  The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy
  By Riccardo Giacconi

• Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture:
  The Second Stars
  By Falk Herwig

• Cosmological Structures behind the Milky Way
  By Renée Kraan-Korteweg

• New Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies
  By Peter Schuecker

• The Evolution of Field Spiral Galaxies over the Past 8 Gyrs
  By Asmus Böhm and Bodo L. Ziegler

• Galaxy Collisions, Gas Striping and Star Formation in the Evolution of Galaxies
  By By Jan Palouš

• Star Formation in Merging Galaxy Clusters
  By Chiara Ferrari

• Continuous Star Formation in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies
  By Simone Recchi and Gerhard Hensler

• The Proper Motion and Geometric Distance of M33
  By Andreas Brunthaler

• NIR Observations of the Galactic Center
  By R. Schödel, A. Eckart, C. Straubmeier and J.-U. Pott

• Structures in the Interstellar Medium
  By Sona Ehlerová

• Origins of Brown Dwarfs
  By Viki Joergens

 

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