Asteroids to Quasars
A Symposium Honoring William Liller

A collection of insightful reviews at the frontiers of astrophysics.

Phyllis M. Lugger (Edited by)

9780521617048, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 16 December 2004

336 pages
24.6 x 18.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.6 kg

This festschrift volume is dedicated to William Liller, a noted observational astronomer who is now retired from a Harvard University named professorship. Nineteen of Liller's colleagues and former students (as well as Liller himself) give insightful reviews of the current state of a broad range of frontier astrophysical areas from the solar system to the limits of the observable universe. The reviews are of special interest to professional astronomers and students of astronomy, and are also accessible to the interested nonspecialist reader. The articles are well suited for providing graduate students in astronomy with an introduction to these topics. The authors describe their personal involvement in important research advances and convey a sense of the excitement of scientific discovery. The reader is given an overview of the advanced techniques used by today's observational astronomers for probing the mysteries of the cosmos, and of the theoretical interpretation of the observational findings.

Asteroid dedication
William Liller: Biographical Sketch
William Liller: Autobiographical Meanderings
Preface
List of Participants
Conference Photo
Part I. 1. Solar System Astronomy: Asteroids Joseph Veverka
2. Sixteen years of stellar occultations James Elliott
3. Comets to Quasars: Surface photometry from standard stars and the morphology of the galaxy-quasar interface Peter Usher
4. Observing Solar Eclipses Jay Pasachoff
Part II. 5. Planetary Nebulae: new insights and opportunities Lawrence Aller
6. Studies of planetary nebulae at radio wavelengths Yervant Terzian
7. Optical identifications of compact galactic X-ray sources: Liller Lore Jonathan Grindlay
8. Ages of globular clusters derived from BVRI CCD photometry Gonzalo Alcaino
9. Stellar spectrum synthesis Jun Jugaku
10. Mass exchange and stellar abundance anomalies Benjamin Peery
Part III. Extragalactic Astronomy: 11. The M31 globular cluster system John Huchra
12. Spiral structure and star formation in galaxies Debra Elmegreen
13. The discovery of hot coronae around early type galaxies William Forman and Christine Jones
14. The morphology of clusters of galaxies, the formation efficiency of galaxies and the origin of the intracluster medium Christine Jones and William Forman
15. Testing models for the dynamical evolution of clusters of galaxies Phyllis Lugger
16. What is in the X-ray sky? Rudolph Schild
17. Einstein deep surveys Stephen Murray, Christine Jones and William Forman
Part IV. History, Lore and Archaeoastronomy: 18. Robert Wheeler Willson: His Life and Legacy Barbara Welther
19. The great mnemonics contest Owen Gingerich
20. Hetu'u Rapanui: The archaeoastronomy of Easter Island William Liller
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Subject Areas: Astrophysics [PHVB]