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Science with the VLT Interferometer
It has always been ESO's aim to operate the VLT in an interferometric mode (VLTI) which allows the coherent combination of stellar light beams col lected by the four 8-m telescopes and by several smaller auxiliary telescopes. In December 1993, in response to financial difficulties, the ESO Council de cided to postpone implement at ion of the VLTI, Coude trains and associated adaptive optics for all the UTs but included provisions for continuing tech nological and development programmes devoted to the aim of reintroducing these capabilities at the earliest possible date. The desirability of carrying out the full VLTI programme as originally envisaged at the earliest possible moment has not, h...
ISO Surveys of a Dusty Universe
Many of the ISO observers who assembled for this workshop at Ringberg c- tle met for the third time in the Bavarian Alps. At two previous meetings in 1989 and 1990 surveys were only a minor topic. At that time we were excited by the discoveries of the IRAS survey mission and wanted to follow it up with pointed observations using an observatory telescope equipped with versatile instruments. With the rapid development of detector arrays and stimulated by ISO’s Observing Time Allocation Committee, however, surveys eventually became an issue for the upcoming mission. In a review paper on “Infrared S- veys - the Golden Age of Exploration” given at an IAU meeting in 1996, Chas Beichman alrea...
Protostellar Jets in Context
It is over a quarter of a century since the discovery of out?ows from young stars. The intervening years have led to remarkable advances in our understanding of this phenomenon. Much of the progress can be attributed to advances in facilities and technologies, including not only larger telescopes but also improved instrument and detector performance. In addition protostellar out?ows have now been imaged from the ground and space at high spatial resolution, e. g. with HST, and at a wide - riety of wavelengths from X-rays to radio waves, revealing more and more about their physics. This veritable revolution in observation has been accompanied by an exponential growth in our ability to numerica...
Scientific Drivers for ESO Future VLT/VLTI Instrumentation
This is the start of a long process to ultimately operate new advanced capabilities at Paranal that can keep up with the evergrowing need for larger and more complex astrophysical data sets. A modern instrument represents a very significant investment in cash, human resources and time. Such a meeting gives us a precious yardstick to evaluate the competitiveness of 1st-generation instruments and associated current and forthcoming proposals for 1st-generation upgrades. This is also crucial to orient the large research and development effort that will provide the very foundation on which 2nd-generation VLT instrumentation can be built. Finally, it represents a significant step towards defining the hopes and goals for the future Extremely Large Telescope to come. The first outcome of this meeting, already in progress, is outlined in the epilogue.
Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun
Annotation Contributions from international researchers attending the 1999 conference in Spain are organized into sections on the formation of stars and planets, advances in solar physics, chemical abundances as diagnostics of stellar structure, unsolved problems in stellar activity, and the impact of space missions on the study of cool stars. A sampling of topics includes accretion shocks and winds in T Tauri stars, solar atmospheric dynamics, light element depletion in F- and G- type stars, latest results in Doppler imaging, and the Hipparcos Mission legacy for cool stars. The included CD-ROM contains all the contributions given at the conference in their entirety, including supporting images, animations, and films. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The Last Total Solar Eclipse of the Millennium in Turkey
The nonprofit Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) publishes the Conference Series Proceedings as part of its century-old mission to provide resources for astronomers and advance the science of astronomy. Since 1988, the ASP has published the proceedings of astronomical workshops, meetings, colloquia, and symposia to meet the community's demand for affordable, high-quality volumes on current topics in the rapidly expanding fields of astronomy and astrophysics. Since 1998, the Society has also served as publisher for the International Astronomical Union (IAU), adding their Symposia, Highlights, and Transactions to our growing list of publications.For most rapid delivery of each volume, w...
The Central Kpc of Starbursts and AGN
Annotation Papers from a May 2001 conference on the central kpc region in AGN and starbursts examine the connection between an AGN and a starburst, the physics of star formation and non-stellar activity, and the relations between an AGN and the properties of its host galaxy. Progress in imaging technology is reported in papers on the Hubble space telescope observations, X-ray results obtained with new orbiting observatories, and imaging and spectroscopy from ground-based optical/near-infrared telescopes. Numerical simulations of gas dynamics, relationships between massive black holes and AGN activity, and attempts to quantify relations between star formation and gas disks are discussed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Disks of Galaxies
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