Reviews in Modern Astronomy: Vol. 16: The Cosmic Circuit of Matter (Reviews in Modern Astronomy)

The 16th volume in the annual series on recent developments and scientific progress in astronomy and astrophysics contains thirteen invited reviews presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on "The Cosmic Circuit of Matter", held in Berlin, Germany. Readers also learn about the lecture on the behaviour of stars by infrared interferometry given by Charles H. Townes, Berkeley, USA who was awarded the Karl Schwarzschild medal 2002. Further contributions on the topic provide, among other, the latest results on the Solar atmosphere, formation of stars, substellar objects, galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Karl Schwarzschild Lecture: The behavior of stars observed by infrared interferometry / C.H. Townes Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture: Star formation in turbulent interstellar gas / R.S. Klessen Dynamics of small scale motions in the solar photosphere / A. Hanslmeier The interstellar medium and star formation: the impact of massive stars / J. Franco, S. Kurtz, and G. García-Segura Circuit of dust in substellar objects / C. Helling Hot stars: old-fashioned or trendy? / A.W.A. Pauldrach. Gas and dust mass loss of O-rich AGB-stars / F. Kerschbaum ... [et al.] Finding the most metal-poor stars of the galactic halo with the Hamburg/ESO objective-prism survey / N. Christlieb A tale of bars and starbursts: dense gas in the central regions of galaxies / S. Hüttemeister Tip-AGB mass-loss on the galactic scale / K.P. Schröder The dusty sight of galaxies: ISOPHOT surveys of normal galaxies, ULIRGS, and quasars / U. Klaas Abundance evolution with cosmic time / J.W. Truran Matter and energy in clusters of galaxies as probes for galaxy and large-scale structure formation in the universe / H. Böhringer.

The 16th volume in the annual series on recent developments and scientific progress in astronomy and astrophysics contains thirteen invited reviews presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on “The Comic Circuit of Matter”, held in Berlin, Germany. Readers also learn about the lecture on the behaviour of stars by infrared interferometry given by Charles H. Townes, Berklely, USA, who was awarded the Karl Schwartzschild medal 2002. Further contributions on the topic provide, among other, the latest results on the Solar atmosphere, formation of stars, substellar objects, galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

Gas and dust mass loss of O-rich AGB-stars / F. Kerschbaum [and others] -- Finding the most metal-poor stars of the galactic halo with the Hamburg/ESO objective-prism survey / N. Christlieb -- A tale of bars and starbursts: dense gas in the central regions of galaxies / S. Hu͏̈ttemeister -- Tip-AGB mass-loss on the galactic scale / K.P. Schro͏̈der -- The dusty sight of galaxies: ISOPHOT surveys of normal galaxies, ULIRGS, and quasars / U. Klaas -- Abundance evolution with cosmic time / J.W. Truran -- Matter and energy in clusters of galaxies as probes for galaxy and large-scale structure formation in the universe / H. Bo͏̈hringer The 16th volume in the annual series on the developments and scientific progress in astronomy and astrophysics which contains thirteen invited reviews presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on "The Comic Circuit of Matter", held in Berlin, Germany.