Reviews in modern astronomy . Volume 20 Cosmic matter / / edited by Siegfried Röser

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910831200903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Weinheim, [Germany] : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, , 2008; ©2008
• ISBN: 1-281-84277-X; 9786611842772; 3-527-62299-3; 3-527-62300-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Collana: Reviews in Modern Astronomy
• Disciplina: 523.1
• Soggetti: Cosmology; Large scale structure (Astronomy)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Reviews in Modern Astronomy; Contents; Preface; Karl Schwarzschild Lecture: Als die Computer die Astronomie eroberten; Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture I: Massive Star Formation: The Power of Interferometry; Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture II: At the Bottom of the Main Sequence Activity and Magnetic Fields Beyond the Threshold to Complete Convection; Structure Formation in the Expanding Universe: Dark and Bright Sides; From COBE to Planck; Thirty Years of Research in Cosmology, Particle Physics and Astrophysics and How Many More to Discover Dark Matter?; Gravitational Wave Astronomy; High-(Energy)-Lights - The Very High Energy Gamma-Ray SkyAstronomy with Ultra High-Energy Particles; Hydrodynamical Simulations of the Bullet Cluster; Pulsar Timing - From Astrophysics to Fundamental Physics; The Assembly of Present-Day Galaxies as Witnessed by Deep Surveys; The First Stars; Massive Stars as Tracers for Stellar and Galactochemical Evolution; Formation and Evolution of Brown Dwarfs; Status and Perspectives of Astroparticle Physics in Europe; Index of Contributors; General Table of Contents
• Sommario/riassunto: This 20th volume in the series contains 16 invited reviews and highlight contributions presented during the 2007 International Scientific Conference of the German Astronomical Society on the topic of ""Cosmic Matter"", held in W?rzburg, Germany. The papers published here discuss a wide range of hot topics, including cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, astroparticle physics gravitational waves, extragalactic and stellar astronomy-together representing the roadmap for astroparticle physics in Europe.