Astronomy in Focus XXIXB: Volume 2
As Presented at the IAU XXIX General Assembly, 2015

Reports on selected contributions from the Focus Meetings at the XXIX IAU General Assembly in Honolulu in 2015.

Piero Benvenuti (Edited by)

9781107169838, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 November 2016

356 pages
25.5 x 18 x 3.3 cm, 1.45 kg

At the XXIX IAU General Assembly held in Honolulu from 3–14 August 2015, the meetings known as Special Sessions and Joint Discussions were replaced by new 'Focus Meetings'. Astronomy in Focus XXIXB presents the most relevant contributions from the Focus Meetings together with summaries of all the accepted papers and posters. It covers the following topics: the legacy of Planck; x-ray surveys of the hot and energetic cosmos; stellar physics in galaxies; stellar explosions; gravitational waves and structure formation; the search for water and life's building blocks; red supergiants in the local Universe; advances in stellar physics from asteroseismology; scale-free processes in the Universe; and the frontiers of our understanding of cluster and galaxy evolution. The publications Astronomy in Focus XXIXB (together with its companion, XXIXA), the proceedings of the six main Scientific Symposia and Reports on Astronomy: Commission Legacy Reports, fully cover the XXIX IAU General Assembly.

Preface P. Benvenuti
FM 5. The legacy of Planck J. Tauber
FM 6. X-ray surveys of the hot and energetic cosmos A. Comastri
FM 7. Stellar physics in galaxies throughout the Universe C. Leitherer
FM 10. Stellar explosions in an ever-changing environment Ch. Thoene
FM 14. The gravitational wave symphony of structure formation J. Lazio
FM 15. Search for water and life's building blocks in the Universe S. Kwok
FM 16. Stellar behemoths – red supergiants across the local Universe B. Davies
FM 17. Advances in stellar physics from asteroseismology S. Jeery
FM 18. Scale-free processes in the Universe E. Falgarone
FM 22. The frontier fields: transforming our understanding of cluster and galaxy evolution H. Ebeling.

Subject Areas: Astrophysics [PHVB], Relativity physics [PHR], Solar system: the Sun & planets [PGS], Galaxies & stars [PGM], Cosmology & the universe [PGK], Astronomy, space & time [PG]