Highlights of Astronomy

As Presented at the XXIst General Assembly of the IAU, Buenos Aries

AvJacqueline Bergeron

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

Del i serien International Astronomical Union Highlights (Closed)

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Beskrivning

Since 1967, the most prominent events of a General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union have been published in a separate volume. The "Highlight of Astronomy" (Volume 9) reports on the major scientific presentations made at the XXIst General Assembly July 23 August 1, 1991, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The present volume contains the text of the three invited Discourses and of the papers presented during seven Joint Discussion Meetings and eight Joint Commission Meetings.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1992-09-30
Mått:160 x 250 x 47 mm
Vikt:1 314 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:International Astronomical Union Highlights (Closed)
Antal sidor:776
Förlag:Kluwer Academic Publishers
Medarbetare:J. Bergeron
ISBN:9780792319153

Utforska kategorier

Astronomi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Innehållsförteckning

Invited discourses - gravitational lensing, retrospect on voyager, observational problems in extragalactic astronomy, joint discussions, an overview of the interstellar medium, reference systems - what are they and what's the problem?, results from SOAT and GRO and other recent high energy astrophysics missions, cosmic background, origin of stars of planetary systems, HIPPARCOS - an assessment, first results from the hubble space telescope, joint commission meetings - rotation of solar system bodies, automated telescopes for photometry and imaging, performance and results with IR arrays, atomic and molecular data for space astronomy - needs and availability, a proposal for an international antarctic observatory, late evolution of low mass stars, solar and stellar coronae, high-redshift galaxies, archiving of current observational data (including solar system data); special contributions - commission 9 - instrumentation; commission 46 - teaching of astronomy.