Reviews in Modern Astronomy 12

Astronomical Instruments and Methods at the Turn of the 21st Century

Contents:

• Karl Schwarzschild Lecture:
  Steps to the Large Binocular Telescope - and Beyond
  By Peter A. Strittmatter (with 10 figures)
• Ludwig Biermann Lecture:
  The Spatial Distribution and Origin of the Widely Dispersed ROSAT T Tauri Stars
  By Ralph Neuhäuser (with 3 figures)
• Space Research at the Threshold of the 21st Century - Aims and Technologies
  By Martin C.E. Huber (with 10 figures)
• High-Resolution Millimeter and Submm Astronomy: Recent Results and New Directions
  By Dennis Downes (with 13 figures)
• DIVA - Beyond HIPPARCOS and Towards GAIA
  By Siegfried Röser (with 7 figures)
• SOFIA - Astronomy and Technology in the 21st Century
  By Alfred Krabbe and Hans Peter Röser (with 14 figures)
• Lensing by Large-Scale Structures
  By Bernard P. Fort (with 3 figures)
• Cosmological Lensing as a Universal Astrophysical Tool
  By Joachim Wambsganss (with 9 figures)
• Frontiers in High-Energy Astroparticle Physics
  By Karl Mannheim (with 7 figures)
• Brown Dwarfs: The First Three Years
  By Gibor B. Basri
• Results from the IRAM Key Project: "Small Scale Structure of Pre-Star forming Regions"
  By Andreas Heithausen, Jürgen Stutzki, Frank Bensch, Edith Falgarone, and Jean-François Panis (with 10 figures)
• The Galactic Center
  By Wolfgang J. Duschl (with 5 figures)
• The Evolution of the QSO Luminosity Function between z = 0 and z = 3
  By Lutz Wisotzki (with 11 figures)
• Spectroscopy of Hot Hydrogen Deficient White Dwarfs
  By Stefan Dreizler (with 9 figures)
• Hot Stars in Globular Clusters
  By Sabine Moehler (with 11 figures)
• Modeling Encounters of Galaxies: The Case of NGC 4449
  By Christian Theis (with 18 figures)