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Mass of Galaxies at Low and High Redshift
Proceedings of the European Southern Observatory and Universitäts-Sternwarte München Workshop Held in Venice, Italy, 24-26 October 2001
Av A. Renzini, R. Bender m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
496 kr
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Measuring the masses of galaxies as a function of redshift is perhaps one of the most challenging open issues in current astronomical research. The evolution of the baryonic and dark matter components of galaxies is not only a critical test of the hierarchical formation paradigm, but ultimately …
From Twilight to Highlight: The Physics of Supernovae
Proceedings of the ESO/MPA/MPE Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 29–31 July 2002
Av Wolfgang Hillebrandt, Bruno Leibundgut m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
496 kr
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Supernovae, their bearing on cosmology and their connection to gamma-ray bursts are now at the center of astrophysical research programs. This volume deals with astronomical observations of supernovae and their relation to nuclear and particle astrophysics. All known aspects of supernovae …
Toward an International Virtual Observatory
Proceedings of the ESO/ESA/NASA/NSF Conference Held at Garching, Germany, 10–14 June 2002
Av Peter J. Quinn, Krzysztof M. Górski
Inbunden, 2004
1202 kr
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The book is the first thorough overview of the first important steps to develop a worldwide virtual observatory so that, in the future, it could be easier to "dial-up" a part of the sky than wait many months to access a telescope. The articles in this book present details on the status of the first …
Science with Adaptive Optics
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 16-19 September 2003
Av Wolfgang Brandner, Markus E. Kasper
Inbunden, 2005
551 kr
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The field of Adaptive Optics (AO) for astronomy has matured in recent years, and diffraction-limited image resolution in the near-infrared is now routinely achieved by ground-based 8 to 10m class telescopes. This book presents the proceedings of the ESO Workshop on Science with Adaptive Optics held …
High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy in Astronomy
Proceedings of an ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 18-21 November 2003
Av Hans Ulrich Käufl, R. Siebenmorgen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
551 kr
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Two specialized new instruments for ESO's VLT, VISIR and CRIRES, spawned the idea for this workshop. CRIRES is a dedicated very high resolution infrared spectrograph; VISIR features a high resolution spectroscopic mode. Together, the instruments combine the sensitivity of an 8m-telescope with the …
Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context
Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference Held at Garching, Germany, 21-25 June 2004
Av Andrea Merloni, Sergei V. Nayakshin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
551 kr
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Supermassive black holes are now believed to play an important role in the evolution of the Universe. Every respectable galaxy hosts in its center a black hole that appears to regulate the growth of the galaxy itself. In this book, leading experts in the field review the most recent theoretical and …
Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Venice, Italy, 13-16 October 2003
Inbunden, 2005
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The possibilities of astronomical observation have dramatically increased over the last decade. Major satellites, like the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra and XMM Newton, are complemented by numerous large ground-based observatories, from 8m-10m optical telescopes to sub-mm and radio facilities. As …
Planetary Nebulae Beyond the Milky Way
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held at Garching, Germany, 19-21 May, 2004
Av L. Stanghellini, J.R. Walsh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1098 kr
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In the last decade extra-galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) have gained increasing importance. Improved observational capabilities have allowed fainter and fainter PNe to be studied in galaxies well beyond the Milky Way. Planetary nebulae can be detected to at least 30Mpc. They are found in galaxies …
Chemical Abundances and Mixing in Stars in the Milky Way and its Satellites
Proceedings of the ESO-Arcetrie Workshop held in Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy, 13-17 September, 2004
Inbunden, 2006
551 kr
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Ten years after the ?rst ESO Workshop on light elements, and ?ve years after the IAU in conference in Natal (Brazil) on the same subject, we felt that it was time to have a new conference on this topic: a wealth of new observational data have become available from the 8-meter telescopes and in …
Exploring the Cosmic Frontier
Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century
Av A. Lobanov, A.P. Lobanov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1098 kr
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In the coming decades, astrophysical science will benefit enormously from the construction and operation of several major international ground- and space based facilities, such as ALMA, Herschel/Planck, and SKA in the far infrared to radio band, Extremely Large Telescopes, JWST and GAIA in the …
Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics
Proceedings of the ESO/CERN/ESA Symposium Held at Garching, Germany, 4-7 March 2002
Av Peter A. Shaver, Luigi Lella m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
551 kr
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This book provides an overview of many of the dramatic recent developments in the fields of astronomy, cosmology and fundamental physics. Topics include observations of the structure in the cosmic background radiation, evidence for an accelerating Universe, the extraordinary concordance in the …
Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held in Garching, 27-30 August 2002
Inbunden, 2003
496 kr
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Dramatic progress is a trademark of the recent study of globular cluster systems. Considerations about the formation and evolution compose the first chapter, followed by a chapter on young star clusters. Then come four chapters reviewing the globular cluster system of early-type, late-type and …
Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 2-5 November 1998
Av A. Fitzsimmons, D. Jewitt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
443 kr
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This volume tries to summarize the status of observational knowledge of the Kuiper Belt. Its recent discovery has revitalized the astromomical study of the Solar System and is beginning to open new and unexpected windows on the physics of planetesimal accretion. With more and better observational …
Black Holes in Binaries and Galactic Nuclei: Diagnostics, Demography and Formation
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 6–8 September 1999, in Honour of Riccardo Giacconi
Av L. Kaper, E.P.J. van den Heuvel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
551 kr
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The observational evidence for the existence of black holes has grown significantly over recent decades. Stellar-mass black holes are detected as X-ray sources in binary systems, while supermassive black holes, with masses more than a million times the mass of the Sun, lurk in the nuclei of …
Mining the Sky
Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, July 31 – August 4, 2000
Av A.J. Banday, S. Zaroubi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1643 kr
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The book reviews methods for the numerical and statistical analysis of astronomical datasets with particular emphasis on the very large databases that arise from both existing and forthcoming projects, as well as current large-scale computer simulation studies. Leading experts give overviews of …
Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era
Proceedings of the International Workshop Held in Rome, Italy, 17-20 October 2000
Av Enrico Costa, Filippo Frontera m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
551 kr
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The information received from BeppoSAX, Chandra and other instruments in the last two years has more than doubled the number of samples of Gamma-Ray Bursts localized and followed up for afterglow search. This has also increased the interest of astronomers in GRBs. This book reviews the research of …
Deep Fields
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 9-12 October 2000
Av S. Cristiani, Alvio Renzini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
494 kr
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This book is a synopsis of modern deep-field astronomy, based on the powerful telescopes and instruments developed in recent years. It is organized along topical themes, such as the extragalactic background radiation at different wavelengths, the evolution of galaxies, the history of star …
Origins of Stars and Planets: The VLT View
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 24–27 April 2001
Av J. F. Alves, M. J. McCaughrean m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1098 kr
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Many important observational clues about our understanding of how stars and planets form in the interior of molecular clouds have been amassed using recent technological developments. ESO's very large telescope promises to be a major step forward in the investigation of stellar nurseries and infant …
Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology
Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference, Held in Garching, Germany, 6-10 August 2001
Av C. K. Chui, M. Gilfanov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
551 kr
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The book reviews the present status of understanding the nature of the most luminous objects in the Universe, connected with supermassive black holes and supermassive stars, clusters of galaxies and ultraluminous galaxies, sources of gamma-ray bursts and relativistic jets. Leading experts give …
Cyclical Variability in Stellar Winds
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 14 – 17 October 1997
Av Lex Kaper, Alexander W. Fullerton
Inbunden, 1998
551 kr
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It is well known that stellar winds are variable, and the fluctuations are often cyclical in nature. This property seems to be shared by the winds of cool and hot stars, even though their outflows are driven by fundamentally different physical mechanisms. Since very similar models have been …
Groups of Galaxies in the Nearby Universe
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held at Santiago de Chile, December 5 - 9, 2005
Av Ivo Saviane, Valentin D. Ivanov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
551 kr
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For every galaxy in the field or in clusters, there are about three galaxies in groups. The Milky Way itself resides in a group, and groups can be found at high redshift. The current generation of 10-m class telescopes and space facilities allows the observation of the members of nearby groups with …
Heating versus Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference held in Garching, Germany, 6-11 August 2006
Av Hans Böhringer, Gabriel W. Pratt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
551 kr
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The Universe would be a dull and dark place if the gaseous baryons did not cool, collapse, and form stars and galaxies. However, if this gas is allowed to cool unimpeded at the rate predicted from known atomic physics, in the context of a well-established cosmological model, the gaseous matter …
Science Perspectives for 3D Spectroscopy
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 10-14 October 2005
Av Markus Kissler-Patig, Jeremy Walsh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1098 kr
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“You will hold in your hands the proceedings of the last conference ever on integral-?eld spectroscopy.” So the daring statement that we, organizers, made at the end of an extremely interesting and busy week of conference in October 2005. Indeed, the quality and diversity of the contributions in …
Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Recent Scientific Results and 2nd Generation Instrumentation
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 4-8 April 2005
Av Andrea Richichi, Francoise Delplancke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
551 kr
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New interferometers as the VLTI, the Keck-I and CHARA along with their sophisticated instrumentation have provided new levels of accuracy, spectral resolution and access to various spectral bands from the optical to the thermal infrared. Investigations are now enabled on a wealth of astrophysical …
Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology – Einstein’s Legacy
Proceedings of the MPE/USM/MPA/ESO Joint Astronomy Conference Held in Munich, Germany, 7-11 November 2005
Av Bernd Aschenbach, Vadim Burwitz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1098 kr
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"Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology" have developed into important and fruitful research areas with a hitherto unprecented public interest. The year 2005, which marked the 100th anniversary of the 'annus mirabilis', that year in which Albert Einstein published three of his most important …
Multiple Stars across the H-R Diagram
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 12-15 July 2005
Av Swetlana Hubrig, Monika Petr-Gotzens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1098 kr
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The ESO workshop “Multiple Stars across the H-R Diagram” was held in Garching on 12–15, July 2005. The topics included observations of multiple stars from ground and space, dynamical and stellar evolution in multiple systems, e?ects of the environment on multiplicity, formation and early e- lution …
Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics
Proceedings of the ESO/Lisbon/Aveiro Conference held in Aveiro, Portugal, 11-15 September 2006
Av Nuno C. Santos, Luca Pasquini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1098 kr
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High-accuracy Doppler shift measurements and high-precision spectroscopy are primary techniques in the search for exo-planets.Further extremely interesting applications include the analysis of QSO absorption lines to determine the variability of physical constants and the analysis of the isotopic …
Deep Impact as a World Observatory Event: Synergies in Space, Time, and Wavelength
Proceedings of the ESO/VUB Conference held in Brussels, Belgium, 7-10 August 2006
Av Hans Ulrich Käufl, Christiaan Sterken
Inbunden, 2008
1098 kr
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In the context of the NASA Deep Impact space mission, comet 9P/Tempel1 has been at the focus of an unprecedented worldwide long-term multi-wavelength observation campaign. The comet was also studied throughout its perihelion passage by various sources including the Deep Impact mission itself, the …
Globular Clusters - Guides to Galaxies
Proceedings of the Joint ESO-FONDAP Workshop on Globular Clusters held in Concepción, Chile, 6-10 March 2006
Inbunden, 2008
1098 kr
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The idea to hold a workshop on globular clusters in Concepcion emerged during 2005 out of a variety of circumstances. Four years had passed since the IAUSymposium 207 onExtragalactic Globular Clusters inPuc' on, atime span, which we thought to be long enough for justifying a new meeting with …
2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop
Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 23-26 January 2007
Av Andreas Kaufer, Florian Kerber
Inbunden, 2008
551 kr
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The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration workshop brought together more than 120 participants with the objective to a) foster the sharing of information, experience and techniques between observers, instrument developers and instrument operation teams, b) review the actual precision and limitations of …
