Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Description:... This years volume begins with a career retrospective by astrophysicist H.C. van de Hulst, in which he describes the beginnings of radio astronomy, his experiences at the Yerkes and Leiden observatories, his work in COSPAR, and the joy he found in tormenting astronomy students with the Socratic method. Other contributions cover type Ia supernovae and the Hubble constant; detection of extrasolar giant planets; first results from Hipparcos; radio emission from solar flares; star formation in galaxies along the Hubble sequence; Herbig Ae/Be stars; the Lyman alpha forest in the spectra of quasistellar objects; chemical evolution of star-forming regions; carbon stars; dwarf galaxies of the local group; astronomical searches for earth-like planets; modeling extragalactic jets; and simulations of structure formation in the universe. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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