Reviews in Modern Astronomy 23

Zooming in: The Cosmos at High Resolution

Contents:

• Karl Schwarzschild Award Lecture:
  The Road to Earth Twins
  By Michel Mayor, Christophe Lovis, Francesco Pepe, Damien Sègransan and Stèphane Udry
• Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture:
  Stellar Forensics with the Supernova-GRB Connection
  By Maryam Modjaz
• Doctoral Thesis Award Lecture:
  Accretion, jets and winds: High-energy emission from young stellar objects
  By Hans Moritz Günther
• The physics and astrophysics of supernova explosions
  By Wolfgang Hillebrandt
• The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research.
  A new era for supernova dynamics and nucleosynthesis
  By Karlheinz Langanke
• The Bar and Spiral Structure Legacy (BeSSeL) survey:
  Mapping the MilkyWay with VLBI astrometry
  By Andreas Brunthaler, Mark J. Reid, Karl M. Menten, Xing-Wu Zheng, Anna Bartkiewicz, Yoon K. Choi, Tom Dame, Kazuya Hachisuka, Katharina Immer, George Moellenbrock, Luca Moscadelli, Kazi L.J. Rygl, Alberto Sanna, Mayumi Sato, Yuanwei Wu, Ye Xu, and Bo Zhang
• On the origin of gaseous galaxy halos –
  Low-column density gas in the Milky Way halo
  By Nadya Ben Bekhti, Benjamin Winkel, Philipp Richter,
  Jürgen Kerp, and Ulrich Klein
• Radio studies of galaxy formation: Dense Gas History of the Universe
  By Chris L. Carilli, Fabian Walter, Dominik Riechers, Ran Wang, Emanuele Daddi, and Jeff Wagg, Frank Bertoldi, and Karl Menten
• Water in star-forming regions with Herschel
  By Lars E. Kristensen and Ewine F. van Dishoeck
• Light-element abundance variations in globular clusters
  By Sarah L. Martell
• Massive black holes and the evolution of galaxies
  By Marta Volonteri and Jillian Bellovary
• High-energy astrophysics
  By Martin Pohl
• Star formation at High Resolution, Zooming into the Carina nebula, the nearest laboratory of massive Star feedback
  By Thomas Preibisch
• Characteristic structures in circumstellar disks – Potential indicators of embedded planets
  By Sebastian Wolf