Reviews in Modern Astronomy 24

Surveys & Simulations - The Real and the Virtual Universe

Inhalt:

• Vortrag zum Ludwig-Biermann-Förderpreis:
  Dwarf galaxies in observed and simulated galaxy clusters
  by T. Lisker
• Vortrag zum Promotionspreis:
  AGN jets under the microscope: A divide?
  by M. Karouzos; S. Britzen; A. Witzel; A.J. Zensus; A. Eckart
• MUCHFUSS – Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS
  by S. Geier; V. Schaffenroth; H. Hirsch; A. Tillich; U. Heber; P.F.L. Maxted; R.H. Østensen; B.N. Barlow; S.J. O’Toole; T. Kupfer; T. Marsh; B. Gänsicke; R. Napiwotzki; O. Cordes; S. Müller; L. Classen; E. Ziegerer; H. Drechsel
• Cosmic Flows surveys and CLUES simulations
  by H.M. Courtois; R.B. Tully
• Debris disks as seen by Herschel/DUNES
  by T. Löhne; C. Eiroa; J.-C. Augereau; S. Ertel; J.P. Marshall; A. Mora; O. Absil; K. Stapelfeldt; P. Thébault; A. Bayo; C. del Burgo; W. Danchi; A.V. Krivov; J. Lebreton; G. Letawe; P. Magain; J. Maldonado; B. Montesinos; G.L. Pilbratt; G.J. White; S. Wolf
• A wider audience: Turning VLBI into a survey instrument
  by E. Middelberg; A.T. Deller; W.F. Brisken; J.S. Morgan; R.P. Norris
• The promises of Gaia
  by T. Prusti
• Milky Way simulations: The Galaxy, its stellar halo and its satellites – insights from a hybrid cosmological approach
  by G. De Lucia
• Simulations of galaxy formation and evolution
  by C. Scannapieco
• Gamma-ray burst host galaxies at low and high redshift
  by S. Savaglio
• Interstellar medium simulations
  by D. Breitschwerdt; M.A. de Avillez; J. Feige; C. Dettbarn
• New results from Galactic ISM surveys: The Frothy ISM
  by N.M. McClure-Griffiths
• Principles of high-dimensional data visualization in astronomy
  by A.A. Goodman
• Larger, faster, better: Current trends in cosmological simulations
  by V. Springel
• The Galactic thin and thick disk
  by M. Steinmetz