Highlights of Astronomy: Volume 15

Records the proceedings of the IAU XXVII General Assembly, providing an up-to-date and broad overview of modern astrophysics.

Ian Corbett (Edited by)

9781107005334, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 November 2010

880 pages, 100 b/w illus.
25.4 x 18.2 x 3.8 cm, 1.67 kg

'There is something here for everyone.' The Observatory

Recording the proceedings of the IAU XXVII General Assembly, this volume of Highlights of Astronomy provides an up-to-date review of modern astrophysics, as discussed by 2400 participants. Covering planets, stars, galaxies, dark matter and modern cosmology, it gives a broad overview, allowing specialists and non-specialists alike to bring themselves up to date with the latest developments. This text brings together the work of observers and theoreticians from widely different fields who work towards a common goal: understanding the physics of the Universe. Together with the Proceedings of the IAU Symposia 262–267, this volume examines all of the astrophysics presented at the General Assembly, and provides a valuable testament to the vigour and momentum of astrophysical discovery in 2009, the International Year of Astronomy.

Preface
Part I. Gruber Cosmology Prize Lecture
Part II. Invited Discourses
Part III. Joint Discussions: 1. Dark matter in early-type galaxies Léon V. E. Koopmans and Tommaso Treu
2. Diffuse light in galaxy clusters Magda Arnaboldi and Ortwin Gerhard
3. Neutron stars – timing in extreme environments Tomaso Belloni, Mariano Méndez and Chengmin Zhang
4. Progress in understanding the physics of Ap and related stars Margarida Cunha
5. Modelling the Milky Way in the age of Gaia Annie C. Robin
6. Time and astronomy Pascale Defraigne
7. Astrophysical outflows and associated accretion phenomena Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino and Alex C. Raga
8. Hot interstellar matter in elliptical galaxies Dong-Woo Kim and Silvia Pellegrini
9. Are the fundamental constants varying with time? Paolo Molaro and Elisabeth Vangioni
10. 3D views on cool stellar atmospheres – theory meets observation K. N. Nagendra, P. Bonifacio and H. G. Ludwig
11. New advances in helio- and astero-seismology
12. The first galaxies – theoretical predictions and observational clues
13. Eta Carinae in the context of the most massive stars Theodore R. Gull and Augusto Damineli
14. The ISM of galaxies in the far-infrared and sub-millimetre
15. Magnetic fields in diffuse media Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino and Alex Lazarian
16. IHY global campaign – whole heliosphere interval
Part IV. Special Sessions: SpS 1. IR and sub-mm spectroscopy – a new tool for studying stellar evolution Glenn Wahlgren, Hans Käufl and Florian Kerber
SpS 2. The international year of astronomy Pedro Russo, Catherine Cesarsky and Lars Lindberg Christensen
SpS 3. Astronomy in Antarctica in 2009 Michael G. Burton
SpS 4. Astronomy education between past and future J. P. De Greve
SpS 5. Accelerating the rate of astronomical discovery Ray P. Norris
SpS 6. Planetary systems as potential sites for life Régis Courtin, Alan Boss and Michel Mayor
SpS 7. Young stars, brown dwarfs, and protoplanetary disks Jane Gregorio-Hetem and Silvia Alencar
SpS 8. The galactic plane N. A. Walton, A. Damineli, M. G. Hoare, J. E. Drew, Roberto D. D. Costa and Walter J. Maciel
SpS 9. Marking the 400th anniversary of Kepler's 'astronomia nova' T. J. Mahoney
SpS 10. Next generation large astronomical facilities Gerard F. Gilmore and Richard T. Schilizzi
Author index.

Subject Areas: Astronomy, space & time [PG], Mathematics & science [P]