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)