Reviews in Modern Astronomy 22

Deciphering the Universe through Spectroscopy

Contents:

Karl Schwarzschild Lecture:
Dissecting galaxies with quantitative spectroscopy of the brightest stars in the Universe
By Rolf-Peter Kudritzki
Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture I:
Pulsations and planets: The asteroseismology-extrasolar-planet Connection
By Sonja Schuh
Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture II:
Stellar archaeology: Exploring the Universe with Metal-poor stars
By Anna Frebel
Quantitative solar spectroscopy
By Klaus Wilhelm
Metallicity and kinematical clues
To the formation of the Local Group
By Rosie Wyse
Probing dark matter, galaxies and the expansion history of the Universe with Lyα in absorption and emission
By Martin Haehnelt
Hypervelocity stars in the Galactic halo
By Holger Baumgardt
Schwarzschild modelling of elliptical galaxies and their black holes
By Jens Thomas
Star and protoplanetary disk properties in Orions suburbs
By Roy van Boekel, Min Fang, Wei Wang, A. Carmona,
Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar & Thomas Henning
Molecular Gas at High Redshift
By Fabian Walter, Chris Carilli & Emanuele Daddi
X-ray spectroscopy and mass analysis of galaxy clusters
By Robert Schmidt
High-ﬁdelity spectroscopy at the highest resolution
By Dainis Dravins
Spectroscopy of solar neutrinos
By Michael Wurm, Franz von Feilitzsch, Marianne Göger-Neﬀ, Tobias Lachenmaier, Timo Lewke, Qurin Meindl, Randolph Möllenberger, Lothar Oberauer, Walter Potzel, Marc Tippmann, Christoph Traunsteiner & Jürgen Winter
Open clusters and the galactic disk
By Siegfried R¨ser, Nina V. Kharchenko, Anatoly E. Piskunov, Elena Schilbach, Ralf-Dieter Scholz & Hans Zinnecker
VLT-CRIRES: "Good Vibrations"
Rotational-vibrational molecular spectroscopy in astronomy
By Hans Ulrich Käuﬂ