Reviews in Modern Astronomy 21
Formation and Evolution of Cosmic Structures
Description:
This 21st volume in the series contains 15 invited reviews and highlight contributions presented during the 2008 International Scientific Conference of the German Astronomical Society on the topic of "New Challenges to European Astronomy", held in Vienna, Austria.
The papers discuss a wide range of hot topics, including cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, astroparticle physics gravitational waves, extragalactic and stellar astronomy -- together representing the roadmap for modern astrophysical research.
Contents:
- Karl Schwarzschild Lecture:
The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination
Rashid Sunyaev, MPG - The Present status of Modified Newtonian Dynamics
Robert Sanders, Universität Groningen (NL) - The High-z Universe: Probing Galaxy Formation
Sadegh Khochfar, MPG - The Evolution of Disk Galaxies in a Dark Matter-dominated Universe
Eric Bell, MPG - The development of Disc Truncations from z = 1 to the Present Day: John Beckman Direct Evidence of Inside-out Galaxy Growth
J.E. Beckman, Astrophysical Institute of Canary Islands (E) - Ludwig Biermann Lecture:
Complexity in Small-scale Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
Andreas Koch, UCLA (USA) - The High Mass End of Extragalactic Globular Clusters
Michael Hilker, ESO - Star Cluster Evolution: The first 100 Myr
Genevieve Parmentier, Universität Bonn - The Prehistoric Era: Star Formation before Spitzer (LYMAN)
Virginia Trimble, University of Maryland (USA) - Lyman Spitzer and the Physics of Star Formation
Bruce Elmegreen, IBM (USA) - Evolution of Massive Stars Along the Cosmic History
Georges Meynet, Universität Genf (CH) - Overview of the Solar System Formation
Aurelien Crida, Universität Tübingen - Gas and Dust Chemistry in Disks
Klaus Pontoppidan, CALTECH (USA) - Women in Astronomy
Meg Urry, Yale (USA) - Present and Future Solar Space Missions
Sami Solanki, MPG