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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume was planned at a meeting held on May 13, 1995, in Victoria, British Columbia.

(Extracted from the preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Contents.

-A Physicist Courts Astronomy. Charles H. Townes.
-Eta Carinae and Its Environment. Kris Davidson & Roberta M. Humphreys.
-The Sun's Variable Radiation and Its Relevance for Earth. Judith Lean.
-Luminous Supersoft X-ray Sources. P. Kahabka & E.P.J. van den Heuvel.
-Observational Selection Bias Affecting the Determination of the Extragalactic Distance Scale. P. Teerikorpi.
-Model Atmospheres of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs. France Allard, Peter H. Hauschildt, David R. Alexander & Summer Starrfield.
-Dense Photodissociation Regions (PDRs). D.J. Hollenbach & A.G.G.M. Tielens.
-High-Velocity Clouds. B.P. Walker & H. van Woerden.
-Low Surface Brightness Galaxies. Chris Impey & Greg Bothun.
-Optical Spectra of Supernovae. Alexei V, Filippenko.
-Compact Groups of Galaxies. Paul Hickson.
-Faint Blue Galaxies. Richard S. Ellis.
-Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei. Marie-Helene Ulrich, Laura Maraschi & C. Megan Urry.
-Abundance Ratios and Galactic Chemical Evolution. Andrew McWilliam.
-Mixing in Stars. M. Pinsonneault.
-Parsec-Scale Jets in Extragalactic Radio Sources. J. Anton Zensus.
-Galactic Bulges. Rosemary F.G. Wyse, Gerard Gilmore & Marijn Franx.

-Indexes.

OUR REVIEW

Volume 35 (1997) of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics comes to its appointment on time. The contents of this book correspond to 17 technical articles of a very varied nature that range from stellar physics to the study of galaxies or the spectra of supernovas, to the observations of extra galactic radio sources and the chemical measurement in the galactic medium.

Renowned astronomers and astrophysicians participate in this compilation of works that shows the current status of research in these and other fields, and that will surely interest professionals and university scholars and students with specific education.