General -- Crystalline Silicates -- Water in Space: The Water World of ISO -- Molecular Hydrogen -- Understanding Galaxy Formation with ISO Deep Surveys -- Solar System -- The Planets and Titan Observed by ISO -- Comets, Asteroids and Zodiacal Light as Seen by Iso -- Stars and Circumstellar Matter -- ISO Observations of Pre-Stellar Cores and Young Stellar Objects -- Pre-Main Sequence Stars Seen…
Our Galaxy, Host of the Interstellar Medium -- Radiations and Magnetic Fields -- Radiative Transfer and Excitation -- The Neutral Interstellar Gas -- The Ionized Interstellar Gas -- The Interstellar Medium at High Energies -- Interstellar Dust -- Heating and Cooling of the Interstellar Gas -- Interstellar Chemistry -- Photodissociation Regions -- Shocks -- Shock Applications -- Interstellar Tur…
Before the Flight -- Selection for Spaceflight -- Getting Ready -- Astronauts at School -- Launch -- The Sky is not the Limit -- In Orbit -- Space Stations: Giant Cans and Wheels in the Sky -- The end of the Tour -- Returning from Space -- To the Moon, Mars and Beyond -- The Road Ahead.Many scientific papers and popular articles have been written on the topic of space tourism, describing everyt…
History of HVC research — an Overview -- HVC/IVC Maps and HVC Distribution Functions -- Kinematics of HV and IV Gas -- Interemdiate-velocity Clouds -- HVCS Related to the Magellanic System -- High-velocity Hi Gas in External Galaxies -- The Large- and Small-scale Structure of HVCs -- Ionized Gas Associated with HVCs -- The Coldest Phase in Halo High-velocity Gas: Dust and Molecules -- Distanc…
Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Plasmas (Steven M. Kahn): Classical and Quantum Radiation Theory -- The Structure of Multi-Electron Atoms -- Electron-Ion Collisional Processes -- Discrete Line Diagnostics -- Concluding Remarks -- Instruments for Nuclear Astrophysics (Peter von Ballmoos): Introduction -- Interaction of High-Energy Photons with Matter -- Detectors -- The Instruments for …
Instrumentation and Observational Highlights -- Young Stars, Hot Stars, LBVs, Novae, SNe, ISM-1 -- Normal MS Stars, Old Stars, Active Stars, ISM-2 -- Solar Systems, Brown Dwarfs -- Our Solar System.Two specialized new instruments for ESO's VLT, VISIR and CRIRES, spawned the idea for this workshop. CRIRES is a dedicated very high resolution infrared spectrograph; VISIR features a high resolution…
First Supermassive Black Holes and Structure Formation -- Observations of Supermassive Black Holes at Higher Redshift -- Observations of Super Massive Black Holes in the Local Universe -- The Case of Sagittarius A* -- Interaction of Supermassive Black Holes with Their Environment -- Physics of Accretion Discs Around Supermassive Black Holes -- Black Hole–Black Hole Mergers and Gravitational W…
Taking the Measure of the Low-Redshift Universe -- Which Properties of Galaxies can Likely Evolve (and be Measured)? -- Observations of an Evolving Universe -- Galaxies at the Contemporary Limits -- Observational Cosmology -- Astronomical Instrumentation of the Future -- Briefly: Some Overall Conclusions and Problems.An Astronomical Life – Observing the Depths of the Universe” Though scienc…
to Space Life Sciences -- Space Biology -- The Neuro-Sensory System in Space -- The Cardio-Vascular System in Space -- The Musculo-Skeletal System in Space -- Psycho-Sociological Issues of Spaceflight -- Operational Space Medicine -- Space Life Sciences Investigator’S Guide.A total of more than 240 human space flights have been completed to date, involving about 450 astronauts from various co…
Introduction -- Basic concepts of Nuclear Physics -- Nuclear Models and Stability of the Nucleus -- Nuclear Reactions -- Nuclear Decays and Fundamental Interactions -- Radioactivity and all that -- Fission -- Fusion -- Nuclear Astrophysics -- Nuclear Cosmology -- Relativistic kinematics -- Accelerators -- Time-dependent perturbation theory -- Nutron transport -- Solutions and Hints for Selected…