Reviews in Modern Astronomy 19

The Many Facets of the Universe - Revelations by New Instruments

Description:

Volume 19 continues the Reviews in Modern Astronomy with invited reviews and highlight contributions which were presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Astronomical Society on the topic The Many Facets of the Universe - Revelations by New Instruments, held at the University of Cologne, Germany, September 26 - October 1, 2005. The contributions to the meeting published in this volume discuss, among other subjects, astrochemistry, astrobiology, cosmology, star and planet formation, and present overviews on new instruments in the infrared and sub-millimeter wavelength range.
Highlight: Karl Schwarzschild Lecture by G. A. Tammann (Basel) The Ups and downs of the Hubble constant.

Contents:

• Karl Schwarzschild Lecture:
  The Ups and Downs of the Hubble Constant
  By G. Andreas Tammann
• Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture:
  High-Velocity Clouds and the Local Intergalactic Medium
  By Philipp Richter
• Talk in honor of Albrecht Unsöld's 100th anniversary:
  Physics of stellar atmospheres – new aspects of old problems
  By Bodo Baschek
• The circumstellar environment of asymptotic giant branch stars
  By Hans Olofsson
• Stellar evolution of massive stars at very low metallicities
  By Raphael Hirschi et al.
• Multi-dimensional numerical simulations of type Ia supernova explosions
  By F. K. Röpke
• The Formation of Turbulent Molecular Clouds: A Modeler’s View
  By Fabian Heitsch
• Astrochemistry and Star Formation: Successes and Challenges
  By Eric Herbst
• Protoplanetary Disks and embedded Planets
  By Wilhelm Kley
• Search for life in the Universe – What can we learn from our own Biosphere?
  By Gerda Horneck
• GQ Lup and its companion
  By E.W. Guenther
• Progress and Perspectives in Solid State Astrophysics – From ISO to Herschel
  By Thomas Posch et al.
• German LOFAR – A New Era in Radio Astronomy
  By Marcus Brüggen, Rainer Beck and Heino Falcke
• SOFIA: The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
  By Jürgen Stutzki
• Astronomy with CARMA – Raising Our Sites
  By Anneila Sargent and Douglas Bock