Planets to Cosmology
Essential Science in the Final Years of the Hubble Space Telescope: Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland May 3–6, 2004

This book contains review papers covering HST's main achievements and future observations, for researchers and graduate students.

Mario Livio (Edited by), Stefano Casertano (Edited by)

9780521182447, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 November 2011

216 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1.2 cm, 0.4 kg

This book acknowledges the importance of identifying the most crucial science to be performed by the superb Hubble Telescope. With this goal in mind, the book presents a review of some of the most important open questions in astronomy. World experts examine topics ranging from extrasolar planets and star formation to supermassive black holes and the reionization of the universe. Special emphasis is placed on what astronomical observations should be carried out during the next few years to enable breakthroughs in our understanding of a complex and dynamic universe. In particular, the reviewers attempt to identify those topics to which the Hubble Space Telescope can uniquely contribute. The special emphasis on future research makes this book an essential resource for both professional researchers and graduate students in astronomy and astrophysics.

Preface
1. Hubble's view of transiting planets D. Charbonneau
2. Unsolved problems in star formation C. J. Clarke
3. Star formation in clusters S. S. Larson
4. HST abundance studies of low metallicity stars J. W. Truran, C. Sneden, F. Primas, J. J. Cowan and T. Beers
5. Physical environments and feedback: HST studies of intense star-forming environments J. S. Gallagher, L. J. Smith and R. W. O'Connell
6. Quasar hosts: growing up with monstrous middles K. K. McLeod
7. Reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei B. M. Peterson and K. Horne
8. Feedback at high redshift A. E. Shapley
9. The baryon content of the local intergalactic medium J. T. Stocke, J. M. Shull, and S. V. Penton
10. Hot baryons in supercluster filaments E. D. Miller, R. A. Dupke and J. N. Bregman
11. Galaxy assembly E. F. Bell
12. Probing the reionization history of the Universe Z. Haiman
13. Studying distant infrared-luminous galaxies with Spitzer and Hubble C. Papovich, E. Egami, E. Le Floc'h, P. Pérez-González, G. Rieke, J. Rigby, H. Dole and M. Reike
14. Galaxies at z = g-i'-drop selection and the GLARE Project E. R. Stanway, K. Glazebrook, A. J. Bunker and the GLARE Consortium
15. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field with NIMCOS R. I. Thompson, R. J. Bouwens and G. Illingworth.

Subject Areas: Astrophysics [PHVB], Cosmology & the universe [PGK]