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The proceedings of the Second European Meeting on "New Aspects of
MagellanicCloud Research" review the most recent progress in the
study of the LMC and SMC. The activities within the ground-based
ESO key programme "Coordinated Investigations of Selected Regions
in the Magellanic Clouds", as well as new exciting observations
from space missions (ROSAT, IUE, ISO, IRAS) result in a more
profound insightinto the structure, kinematics, populations (stars,
clusters, interstellar medium), and the chemical composition and
evolution of the Magellanic Cloud system. The book addresses
researchers and graduate students in astrophysics.
In order to bring the scientific events of the meetings of the
Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG) to the attention of the worldwide
astronomical community, an annual publication, Reviews in Modern
Astronomy, was established. It is devoted exclusively to . the
invited reviews, the Karl Schwarz schild lectures, and the high
light contributions from leading scientists reporting on recent
progress and scientific achievements at their respective
institutes. This third volume continues the yearbook series of
publications of the society. It comprises the complete set of
contributions presented during the spring meeting of the AG at
Berlin in March 1990, which was dedicated to the topic "Accretion
and Winds." In addition four latecomers (two review and two
highlight papers) delivered at the fall meeting at Graz, Austria in
September 1989 close this volume. Heidelberg, September 1990 G:
Klare Contents Some New Elements in Accretion Disk Theory By F.
Meyer (With 5 Figures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 1 Mass Transfer and Evolution in Close Binaries By A. R. King
(With 4 Figures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Radiation Hydrodynamics of the Boundary Layer of Accretion Disks in
Cataclysmic Variables By W. Kley (With 6 Figures) . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Curious Observations of
Cataclysmic Variables By F. V. Hessman (With 10 Figures) . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Accretion in AM Herculis Stars 44 By
A. D. Schwope (With 12 Figures) X-ray Diagnostics of Accretion
Disks By G. Hasinger (With 12 Figures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 60 Accretion Phenomena at Neutron Stars By A.
Rebetzky, H. Herold, U. Kraus, H. -P. Nollert, and H. Ruder (With
13 Figures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."
This second volume of Reviews in Modern Astronomy continues the new
series of publications of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG). In
order to bring the scientific events of the meetings of the society
to the attention of the worldwide astronomical community, it was
decided to devote a new annual publication, Reviews in Modern
Astronomy, exclusively to the invited reviews, the Karl
Schwarzschild lectures, and the highlight contributions from
leading scientists reporting on recent progress and scientific
achievements at their institutes. Volume 2 comprises the
contributions presented during the spring meet- ing of the AG at
Friedrichshafen in April 1989, which was dedicated to the topic
"Astrophysics with Modern Technology - Space-based and Ground-based
Systems", as well as those delivered at the fall meeting at Graz,
Austria in September 1989. The Karl Schwarzschild lectures
constitute a special series by outstanding scientists honoured with
the Karl Schwarzschild medal of the Astronomische Gesellschaft.
Between 1959 and 1987 the following scientists presented Karl
Schwarzschild lectures at meetings of the Astronomische
Gesellschaft: Martin Schwarzschild (1959) George Field (1978)
Charles Fehrenbach (1963) Ludwig Biermann (1980) Maarten Schmidt
(1968) Bohdan Paczynski (1981) Bengt Stromgren (1969) Jean Delhaye
(1982) Antony Hewish (1971) Donald Lynden-Bell (1983) Jan H. Oort
(1972) Daniel M. Popper (1984) Corne lis de Jager (1974)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1986) Lyman Spitzer Jr.
The annual meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in Cologne,
June 1988, featured extensive reviews of the chemical processes
relevant to astrophysics. The twelve contributions to this book,
written by experts from the US, UK, France, Belgium, Switzerland
and Germany, deal in depth with the chemistry of comets and
meteorites, of stars and their shells, of the interstellar medium
and galaxies. A comprehensive review of nucleosynthesis and two
reports on observations round off an up-to-date presentation of
cosmic chemistry.
The International Scientific Spring Meeting of the Astronomische Ge
sellschaft (AG) held at Bamberg in April 1991 was devoted to "Vari
abilities in Stars and Galaxies." Time-dependent phenomena are
observed in a wide range of as tronomical objects. They are caused
by different physical mechanisms (for example by pulsation, by
accretion, or by dramatic eruptive events in connection with mass
outflow) producing observable intensity vari ations through all
wavelengths. Many of the papers in this volume are concerned with
galactic stars showing such behaviour (for ex ample cataclysmic
variables, symbiotic stars, luminous blue variables (LBVs) and
novae). Intrinsic variations of the, magnetic field struc ture on
observable time scales are, for instance, a peculiarity of cool,
solar-like stars and represent a useful tool to study differential
rotation and cycles of activity. Recent results on the
investigation of gas motions in the inner regions of the Milky Way
system, a study of the bipolar galaxy M 82, observations of
variable extragalactic radio sources, the variability of emission
lines in active galactic nuclei (AGN) as well as continuum
variations of quasars and AGN are discussed by several authors. The
yearbook series Reviews in Modern Astronomy of the AG to bring the
scientific events of the was established in 1988 in order meetings
of the society to the attention of the worldwide astronomical
community."
The yearbook series Reviews in Modern Astronomy of the
Astronomische Gesell three years ago in order to bring the
scientific events schaft (AG) was established of the meetings of
the society to the attention of the worldwide astronomical
community. Reviews in Modern Astronomy is devoted exclusively to
the invited reviews, the Karl Schwarzschild lectures, and the
highlight contributions from leading scientists reporting on recent
progress and scientific achievements at their research institutes.
Volume 4 comprises all, eighteen contributions which were presented
during the fall meeting of the AG at Preiburg/Breisgau in September
1990. They cover problems in solar research and the solar system as
well as the first results of the ROSAT and Hipparcos space
missions, stellar and extragalactic studies, and Supernova 1987A in
the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Karl Schwarzschild Medal was
awarded to Professor Eugene Parker1. His lecture entitled
"Convection, Spontaneous Discontinuities, and Stellar Winds and
X-Ray Emis*sion" begins this volume.
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