Formation and evolution of cosmic structures
By: edited by Siegfried Röser
Contributors: Astronomische Gesellschaft (Germany); Österreichische Gesellschaft für Astronomie und Astrophysik; European Astronomical Society; Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting (2008 : Vienna, Austria)
Series: Reviews in modern astronomy -- 21; Reviews in modern astronomy -- 21.
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Weinheim
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9783527409105
Subjects: Evolution; Congresses; Stars; Astrophysics; Dwarf galaxies; Cosmology
Description: "This 21st volume in the series contains 15 invited reviews and highlight contributions presented during the 2008 International Scientific Conference of the German Astronomical Society on the topic of "New Challenges to European Astronomy", held in Vienna, Austria. The papers discuss a wide range of hot topics, including cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, astroparticle physics gravitational waves, extragalactic and stellar astronomy - together representing the roadmap for modern astrophysical research."--Publisher's description.
Notes: "Volume 21 continues the series with fourteen invited reviews and Highlight Contributions which were presented during the Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting JENAM 2008 of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Astronomie und Astrophysik and the European Astronomical Society ... held at Vienna, Austria, September 8 to 12, 2008"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and name index.
Table of contents: title: Karl Schwarzschild Lecture: Signals from the epoch of cosmological recombination / Rashid Sunjaev and Jens Chluba; title: Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture: Complexity in small-scale dwarf spheroidal galaxies / Andreas Koch; title: The current status of MOND / R.H. Sanders; title: Modeling the high-z universe: probing galaxy formation / Sadegh Khochfar; title: Evolution of massive stars along the cosmic history / Georges Meynet ... [et al.]; title: Cosmic evolution of stellar disc truncation 0 < z < 1 / John E. Bechman; title: Star formation from Spitzer (Lyman) to Spitzer (space telescope) and beyond / João Alves & Virginia Trimble; title: Catastrophism versus uniformitarianism in the history of star formation / Virginia Trimble; title: Lyman Spitzer, Jr. and the physics of star formation / Bruce G. Elmegreen; title: What cluster gas expulsion can tell us about star formation, cluster environment and galaxy evolution / Geneviève Parmentier; title: The high mass end of extragalactic globular clusters / Michael Hilker; title: Solar system formation / Aurélien Crida; title: Solar space missions: present and future / Sami K. Solanki & Eckart Marsch; title: Women in (European) astronomy / Meg Urry.