Reviews in Modern Astronomy 10

Contents:

Karl Schwarzschild Lecture:
Gravitational Radiation - a New Window Onto the Universe
By Kip Thorne
Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture:
Star Formation Histories of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies
By Eva K. Grebel
Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture:
On Arcs in X-ray Clusters
By Matthias L. Bartelmann
80 Years of General Relativity
By Jürgen Ehlers
The Distance Scale To Gamma-Ray Bursts
By Don Q. Lamb
Gamma Ray Burst Models
By Peter Mészáros
Massive Stars - Near and Far
By Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck
The Great Wall and Beyond -
Surveys of the Universe to z < 0.1
By Margaret J. Geller
Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
By Martin J. Rees
Experimental Gravity and Lunar Laser Ranging
By J. Müller and Michael H. Soffel
Merging Neutron Stars
By Maximilian Ruffert and H.-Thomas Janka
Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Hot Compact Stars
By Klaus Werner, S. Dreizler, U. Heber, N. Kappelmann, J. Kruk, T. Rauch, B. Wolff
The Jet of the Quasar 3C273 at High Resolution
By Hermann Josef Röser, Klaus Meisenheimer, Martin Neumann, R.G. Conway, J.R. Davis, R.A. Perlay
ISO: The First 10 Months of the Mission
By Dietrich Lemke
First Results from SOHO
By Bernhard Fleck
Search for Primeval Galaxies with the Calar Alto Deep Imaging Survey (CADIS)
By Eduard Thommes, K. Meisenheimer, R. Fockenbrock, H. Hippelein, H.-J. Röser
The New Pre-main Sequence Population South of the Taurus-Auriga Molecular Clouds
By Ralph Neuhäuser