Reviews in Modern Astronomy – From Cosmological Structures to the Milky Way V10

Dr. Siegfried Roser Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg und Schriftfuhrer der Astronomischen Gesellschaft

Karl Schwarzschild Lecture: The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy By Riccardo Giacconi (With 21 Figures).Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture: The Second Stars By Falk Herwig (With 8 Figures).Cosmological Structures behind the Milky Way By Renee Kraan-Korteweg (With 16 Figures).New Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies By Peter Schuecker (With 10 Figures).The Evolution of Field Spiral Galaxies over the Past 8 Gyrs By Asmus Bohmand Bodo L. Ziegler (With 9 Figures).Galaxy Collisions, Gas Striping and Star Formation in the Evolution of Galaxies By Jan Palous (With 8 Figures).Star Formation in Merging Galaxy Clusters By Chiara Ferrari (With 7 Figures).Continuous Star Formation in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies By Simone Recchi and Gerhard Hensler (With 6 Figures).The Proper Motion and Geometric Distance of M33 By Andreas Brunthaler (With 9 Figures).NIR Observations of the Galactic Center By R. Schodel, A. Eckart, C. Straubmeier and J.-U. Pott (With 6 Figures).Structures in the Interstellar Medium By Sona Ehlerova (With 6 Figures).Origins of Brown Dwarfs By Viki Joergens (With 9 Figures).Index of Contributors.General Table of Contents.General Index of Contributors.