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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume was planned at a meeting held on June 1, 1996, in La Jola, California.

(Extracted from the preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Roaming Through Astrophysics. H. C. van de Hulst.
-Type Ia Supernovae and the Hubble Constant. David Branch.
-Detection of Extrasolar Giant Planets. Geoffrey W. Marcy & R. Paul Butler.
-First Results from Hipparcos. J. Kovalensky.
-Radio Emission from Solar Flares. T.S. Bastian, A.O. Benz & D.E. Gary.
-Star Formation in Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence. Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr.
-Herbig Ae/Be Stars. C. Walkens & L.B.F.M. Waters.
-The Lyman Alpha Forest in the Spectra of Quasistellar Objects. Michael Raunch.
-Chemical Evolution of Star-Forming Regions. Ewine F. van Dishoeck / Geoffrey A. Blake.
-Carbon Stars. George Wallerstein & Gillian R. Knapp.
-Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group. Mario L. Mateo.
-Astronomical Searches for Earth-Like Planets and Signs of Life. Neville Woolf & J. Roger Angel.
-Modeling Extragalactic Jets. Attilio Ferrari.
-Simulations of Structure Formation in the Universe. Edmund Bertschinger.

-Indexes.

OUR REVIEW

Volume 36 (1998) of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics comes to its appointment on time. The contents of this book correspond to 14 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 Erath-like planets 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.