High-Velocity Clouds 2004 Edition Contributor(s): Van Woerden, Hugo (Editor), Wakker, Bart (Editor), Schwarz, Ulrich (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1402025785 ISBN-13: 9781402025785 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2004 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Astrophysics - Science | Astronomy |
Dewey: 523.113 |
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (1.80 lbs) 406 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: On the occasion of the retirement of Ulrich Schwarz, a symposium was held in Groningen in May of 1996, celebrating his contributions to the study of the int- stellar medium, including his work on the high-velocity clouds. The coming together of many specialists in the latter ?eld prompted the idea of compiling a book c- taining their contributions, and summarizing the status of our understanding of the high-velocity cloud phenomenon. This seemed especially worthwhile at the time, since many exciting developments were taking place. After the discovery of some H i clouds with high velocities, about 40 years ago, the subject had been dominated by 21-cm observations of H i emission. Starting in the mid-1980s much progress was being made because of the availability of new instruments, such as large ground-based optical telescopes and UV observatories in space. The connections between the work on high-velocity clouds and other studies of the properties of the (hot) interstellar medium also became clearer. |