Reviews in Modern Astronomy V16 – The Cosmic Circuit of Matter

Reinhard E. Schielicke, Ph.D. Universitats-Sternwarte Jena, University of Jena, Germany in association with The Astronomical Society of Germany

The Behavior of Stars Observed by Infrared Interferometry (Charles H. Townes).Star Formation in Turbulent Interstellar Gas (Ralf S. Klessen).Dynamics of Small Scale Motions in the Solar Photosphere (Arnold Hanslmeier).The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation: The Impact of Massive Stars (Jose Franco, et al.).Circuit of Dust in Substellar Objects (Christiane Helling).Hot Stars: Old-Fashioned or Trendy (A.W.A. Pauldrach).Gas and Dust Mass Loss of O-rich AGB-stars (Franz Kerschbaum, et al.).Finding the Most Metal-poor Stars of the Galactic Halo with the Hamburg/ESO Objecrive-prism Survey (Norbert Christlieb).A Tale of Bars and Starbursts: Dense Gas in the Central Regions of Galaxies (Susanne Huttemeister).Tip-AGB Mass-Loss on the Galactic Scale (Klaus-Peter Schroder).The Dusty Sight of Galaxies: ISOPHOT Surveys of Normal Galaxies, ULIRGS and Quasars (Ulrich Klaas).Abundance Evolution with Cosmic Time (James W. Truran).Matter and Energy in Clusters of Galaxies as Probes for Galaxy and Large-Scale Structure Formation in the Universe (Hans Bohringer)Index of Contributors.General Table of Contents.General Index of Contributors.