Zooming in : the cosmos at high resolution

High resolution is a key element in research in astronomy and cosmology.
Advances in instrumentation and new methods are enabling us to constantly make new exciting discoveries, and progress in theoretical modelling allows us to gain a deeper understanding of cosmic physics.
One example of this progress in instrumentation and observing strategy have made possible the discovery of a rich population of low-mass planets orbiting solar-type stars (Michel Mayor et al., Karl Schwarzschild Lecture 2010).
This 23rd volume in the series Reviews of Modern Astronomy contains 14 invited reviews and highlight contributions presented during the 2010 annual meeting of the Astronomical Society on the topic "Zooming in: The cosmos at high resolution", held in Bonn, Germany, in September 2010.

Author Notes

Regina v. Berlepsch studied Physics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. After finishing her studies, she worked as scientific assistant at the central institute for astrophysics (ZIAP) in Potsdam.
Since 1992, she is leading the scientific documentation center of the Astrophysical Institute in Potsdam (AIP).

Michel Mayor and Christophe Lovis and Francesco Pepe and Damien Sègransan and Stèphane Udry (With 4 Figures)Maryam Modjaz (With 5 Figures)Hans Moritz Günther (With 8 Figures)Wolfgang Hillebrandt (With 7 Figures)Karlheinz Langanke (With 15 Figures)Andreas Brunthaler and Mark J. Reid and Karl M. Menten and Xing-Wu Zheng and Anna Bartkiewicz and Yoon K. Choi and Tom Dame and Kazuya Hachisuka and Katharina Immer and George Moellenbrock and Luca Moscadelli and Kazi L.J. Rygl and Alberto Sanna and Mayumi Sato and Yuanwei Wu and Ye Xu and Bo Zhang (With 2 Figures)Nadya Ben Bekhti and Benjamin Winkel and Philipp Richter and Jürgen Kerp and Ulrich Klein (With 6 Figures)Chris L. Carilli and Fabian Walter and Dominik Riechers and Ran Wang and Emanuele Daddi and Jeff Wagg and Frank Bertoldi and Karl Menten (With 21 Figures)Lars E. Kristensen and Ewine F. van Dishoeck (With 6 Figures)Sarah L. MartellMarta Volonteri and Jillian Bellovary (With 6 Figures)Martin Pohl (With 7 Figures)Thomas Preibisch (With 2 Figures)Sebastian Wolf

Karl Schwarzschild Lecture: The Road to Earth Twins	p. 1
Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture: Stellar Forensics with the Supernova-GRB Connection	p. 11
Doctoral Thesis Award Lecture: Accretion, jets and winds: High-energy emission from young stellar objects	p. 37
The physics and astrophysics of supernova explosions	p. 61
The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research. A new era for supernova dynamics and nucleosynthesis	p. 83
The Bar and Spiral Structure Legacy (BeSSeL) survey: Mapping the Milky Way with VLBI astrometry	p. 105
On the origin of gaseous galaxy halos - Low-column density gas in the Milky Way halo	p. 117
Radio studies of galaxy formation: Dense Gas History of the Universe	p. 131
Water in star-forming regions with Herschel	p. 159
Light-element abundance variations in globular clusters	p. 173
Massive black holes and the evolution of galaxies	p. 189
High-energy astrophysics	p. 207
Star formation at High Resolution, Zooming into the Carina nebula, the nearest laboratory of massive Star feedback	p. 223
Characteristic structures in circumstellar disks - Potential indicators of embedded planets	p. 237
Index of Contributors	p. 243
General Table of Contents	p. 245
General Index of Contributors	p. 260

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