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