Reviews in Modern Astronomy, The Cosmic Circuit of Matter

The 16th volume in the annual series on recent developments and scientific progress in astronomy and astrophysics contains thirteen invited reviews presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on "The Cosmic Circuit of Matter", held in Berlin, Germany. Readers also learn about the lecture on the behaviour of stars by infrared interferometry given by Charles H. Townes, Berkeley, USA who was awarded the Karl Schwarzschild medal 2002. Further contributions on the topic provide, among other, the latest results on the Solar atmosphere, formation of stars, substellar objects, galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

Autorentext
Reinhard E. Schielicke, Ph.D.
Universitäts-Sternwarte Jena, University of Jena, Germany
in association with
The Astronomical Society of Germany

Klappentext
The 16th volume in the annual series on recent developments and scientific progress in astronomy and astrophysics contains thirteen invited reviews presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on The Comic Circuit of Matter, held in Berlin, Germany. Readers also learn about the lecture on the behaviour of stars by infrared interferometry given by Charles H. Townes, Berklely, USA, who was awarded the Karl Schwartzschild medal 2002. Further contributions on the topic provide, among other, the latest results on the Solar atmosphere, formation of stars, substellar objects, galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

Inhalt
The Behavior of Stars Observed by Infrared Interferometry (Charles H. Townes). Star Formation in Turbulent Interstellar Gas (Ralf S. Klessen).

Dynamics of Small Scale Motions in the Solar Photosphere (Arnold Hanslmeier).

The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation: The Impact of Massive Stars (José Franco, et al.).

Circuit of Dust in Substellar Objects (Christiane Helling).

Hot Stars: Old-Fashioned or Trendy (A.W.A. Pauldrach).

Gas and Dust Mass Loss of O-rich AGB-stars (Franz Kerschbaum, et al.).

Finding the Most Metal-poor Stars of the Galactic Halo with the Hamburg/ESO Objecrive-prism Survey (Norbert Christlieb).

A Tale of Bars and Starbursts: Dense Gas in the Central Regions of Galaxies (Susanne Hüttemeister).

Tip-AGB Mass-Loss on the Galactic Scale (Klaus-Peter Schröder).

The Dusty Sight of Galaxies: ISOPHOT Surveys of Normal Galaxies, ULIRGS and Quasars (Ulrich Klaas).

Abundance Evolution with Cosmic Time (James W. Truran).

Matter and Energy in Clusters of Galaxies as Probes for Galaxy and Large-Scale Structure Formation in the Universe (Hans Böhringer)

Index of Contributors.

General Table of Contents.

General Index of Contributors.