Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 37Leo Goldberg, Geoffrey R. Burbidge Papers from an April 1997 meeting explore recent advances in areas including galactic dynamos, probing the universe with weak lensing, nucleosynthesis in asymptotic giant branch stars, physical conditions in regions of star formation, and high-energy processes in young stellar objects. Other subjects are sources of relativistic jets in the galaxy, elemental abundances in quasistellar objects, origin and evolution of the natural satellites, and far-ultraviolet radiation from elliptical galaxies. Includes a retrospective of 50 years of research at Palomar Observatory. The editor is affiliated with the University of California at San Diego. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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ADVENTURES IN COSMOGONY A G W Cameron | 1 |
A CRITICAL REVIEW OF GALACTIC DYNAMOS Russell M Kulsrud | 37 |
THE FIRST FORTY YEARS Brian Robinson | 65 |
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abundance accretion AGB stars angular Annu astrometry Astron Astrophys astrophysics Baade binaries calibration Cameron AGW capture Cepheids collapse convective cores cosmological density disk dissipation distance distribution dynamo eccentricity effects emission energy envelope Equation estimates evolution Fe/H Feigelson Figure flares flux frequency galactic galaxies giant globular clusters gravitational Hipparcos Hubble images interstellar ionization isotopes IUCAF jets Lett lines low-mass luminosity magnetic field magnitude main sequence mass loss massive stars measured Mellier metallicity microquasars Mirabel MNRAS models motion nebula neutron nuclei observations optical orbit Palomar parallax parameters Phys planets population produced QSOs quasars radio astronomy ratio redshift regions relativistic relativistic jets resonance rotation RR Lyraes s-process sample Sandage satellites scale solar nebula solar system sources spectral spectrum star formation stellar stellar evolution studies subdwarfs supernova Suppl telescope temperature tidal velocity Wasserburg wavelengths weak lensing X-ray