Formation and Evolution of Cosmic Structures

Volume 21 continues the series with fourteen invited reviews and highlight contributions which were presented at the Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting JENAM2008 of the Astrobomische Gesellschaft, the Österreichische für Astronomie und Astrophysik and the 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.

Spis treści:
Karl Schwarzschild Lecture: Signals From the Epoch of Cosmological Recombination (Rashid Sunjaev and Jens Chluba). (With 22 Figures)
Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture: Complexity in small–scale dwarf spheroidal galaxies (Andreas Koch). (With 8 Figures)
The current status of MOND (R. H. Sanders). (With 8 Figures)
Modeling the High–z Universe: Probing Galaxy Formation (Sadegh Khochfar). (With 3 Figures)
Evolution of Massive Stars along the Cosmic History (Georges Meynet, Sylvia Ekström, Cyril Georgy, Cristina Chiappini & André Maeder). (With 9 Figures)
Cosmic Evolution of stellar Disc Truncation 0 < z < 1 (John E. Bechman). (With 12 Figures)
Star Formation from Spitzer (Lyman) to Spitzer (Space Telescope) and beyond (João Alves & Virginia Trimble).
Catastrophism versus Uniformitarianism in the History of Star Formation (Virginia Trimble).
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. and the Physics of Star Formation (Bruce G. Elmegreen). (With 4 Figures)
What cluster gas expulsion ca tell about star formation, cluster environment and galaxy evolution (Geneeviève Parmentier). (With 5 Figures)
The high mass end of extragalactic globular clusters (Michael Hilker). (With 5 Figures)
Solar System Formation (Aurélien Crida).
Solar Space Missions: present and future (Sami K. Solanki & Eckart Marsch). (With 12 Figures)
Women in (European) Astronomy (Meg Urry).
Index of Contributors.
General Table of Contents.
General Index of Contributors.


Nota biograficzna:
Dr. Siegfried Roser is staff scientist at the Centre for Astronomy, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
His research focuses on galactical structures and star populations. He is serving as editor–in–chief of the Reviews volumes on behalf of the German Astronomische Gesellschaft.

Okładka tylna:
Volume 21 continues the series with fourteen invited reviews and highlight contributions which were presented at the Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting JENAM2008 of the Astrobomische Gesellschaft, the Österreichische für Astronomie und Astrophysik and the 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.