Reviews in modern astronomy 18 from cosmological structures to the Milky Way

• Main Author: Roser, Siegfried
• Corporate Author: John Wiley & Sons
• Format: Electronic Book
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim Wiley-VCH c2005
• Subjects: Astronomy

Table of Contents:

• The dawn of x-ray astronomy / by Riccardo Giacconi
• The second stars / by Falk Herwig
• Cosmological structures behind the Milky Way / by Renee Kraan-Korteweg
• New cosmology with clusters of galaxies / by Peter Schuecker
• The evolution of field spiral galaxies over the past 8 gyrs / by Asmus Bohm and Bodo L. Ziegler
• Galaxy collisions, gas striping and star formation in the evolution of galaxies / by Jan Palouιs
• Star formation in merging galaxy clusters / by Chiara Ferrari
• Continuous star formation in blue compact dwarf galaxies / by Simone Recchi and Gerhard Hensler
• The proper motion and geometric distance of M33 / by Andreas Brunthaler
• NIR observations of the galactic center / by R. Schodel, A. Eckart, C. Straubmeier and J.-U. Pott
• Structures in the interstellar medium / by Soδna Ehlerova
• Origins of brown dwarfs / by Viki Joergens
• Index of contributors
• General table of contents
• General index of contributors