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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume was planned at a meeting held on May 23, 1998, in San Francisco, California.

(Extracted from the preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Contents.

-A Fortunate Life in Astronomy. Donald E. Osterbrock.
-Stellar Structure and Evolution: Deductions from Hipparcos. Yveline Lebreton.
-The First 50 Years at Palomar, 1949-1999 Another View: Instruments, Spectroscopy and Spectrophotometry. George Wallerstein & J.B. Oke.
-Common Envelope Evolution of Massive Binary Stars. Ronald E. Taam & Eric L. Sandquist.
-The Evolution of Rotating Stars. André Maeder & Georges Meynet.
-Type Ia Supernova Explosion Models. Wolfgang Hillebrandt & Jens C. Niemeyer.
-Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy. Stuart Bowyer, Jeremy J. Drake & Stéphane Vennes.
-X-Ray Properties of Groups of Galaxies. John S. Mulchaey.
-Theory of Low-Mass Stars and Substellar Objects. Gilles Chabrier & Isabelle Baraffe.
-Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows. Jan van Paradijs, Chryssa Kouveliotou & Ralph A.M.J. Wijers.
-Organic Molecules in the Interstellar Medium, Comets, and Meteorites: A Voyage from Dark Clouds to the Early Earth. Pascale Ehrenfreund & Steven B. Charnley.
-Observations of Brown Dwarfs. Gibor Basri.
-Phenomenology of Broad Emission Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei. J.W. Sulentic, P. Marziani & D. Dultzin-Hacyan.
-Mass Loss from Cool Stars: Impact on the Evolution of Stars and Stellar Populations. Lee Anne Willson.
-Winds from Hot Stars. Rolf-Peter Kudritzki & Joachim Puls.
-The Hubble Deep Fields. Henry C. Ferguson, Mark Dickinson & Robert Williams.
-Millisecond Oscillations in X-Ray Binaries. M. van der Klis.
-Extragalactic Results from the Infrared Space Observatory. Reinhard Genzel & Catherine J. Cesarsky.

-Indexes.