Reviews in modern astronomy

Siegfried Röser3527406085, 9783527406081, 9783527609123

Volume 18 continues the Reviews in Modern Astronomy with twelve invited reviews and highlight contributions which were presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Astronomical Society on the topic “From Cosmological Structures to the Milky Way”, held in Prague, Czech Republic, September 20 to 25, 2004.
The contributions to the meeting published in this volume discuss, among other subjects, X-ray astronomy, cosmology, star formation and the Galactic Centre.

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Table of contents :
Reviews in Modern Astronomy 18 From Cosmological Structures to the Milky Way……Page 4
Contents……Page 8
Preface……Page 10
Karl Schwarzschild Lecture The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy……Page 14
Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture The Second Stars……Page 34
Cosmological Structures behind the Milky Way……Page 61
New Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies……Page 89
The Evolution of Field Spiral Galaxies over the Past 8 Gyr……Page 119
Galaxy Collisions, Gas Stripping and Star Formation in the Evolution of Galaxies……Page 138
Star formation in merging galaxy clusters……Page 160
Continuous star formation in gas-rich dwarf galaxies……Page 177
M33 – Distance and Motion……Page 192
NIR Observations of the Galactic Center……Page 208
Structures in the interstellar medium……Page 217
Origins of Brown Dwarfs……Page 229
Index of Contributors……Page 254
General Table of Contents……Page 256
General Index of Contributors……Page 268