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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume was planned at a meeting in Seattle, Washington on May 17, 2003.

(Extracted from the preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Contents.

-AN EDUCATION IN ASTRONOMY. Riccardo Giacconi.
-ASTROBIOLOGY: The Study of the Living Universe. Christopher F. Chyba, Kevin P. Hand.
-SUNGRAZING COMETS. Brian G. Marsden.
-THE HYDROMAGNETIC NATURE OF SOLAR CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS. Mei Zhang, Boon Chye Low.
-DIGITAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION: Deblurring and Denoising. R.C. Puetter, T.R. Gosnell, Amos Yahil.
-NEW SPECTRAL TYPES L AND T. J. Davy Kirkpatrick.
-HIGH-VELOCITY WHITE DWARFS AND GALACTIC STRUCTURE. I. Neill Reid.

-STANDARD PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEMS. Michael S. Bessell.
-THE THREE-PHASE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM REVISITED.
Donald P. Cox.
-THE ADEQUACY OF STELLAR EVOLUTION MODELS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF THE COLOR-MAGNITUDE DIAGRAMS OF RESOLVED STELLAR POPULATIONS. C. Gallart, M. Zoccali, A. Aparicio.
-EVOLUTION OF ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH STARS. Falk Herwig.
-NEW LIGHT ON STELLAR ABUNDANCE ANALYSES: Departures from LTE and Homogeneity. Martin Asplund.
-THE DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS OF VERY METAL-POOR STARS IN THE GALAXY. Timothy C. Beers, Norbert Christlieb.
-THE CLASSIFICATION OF GALAXIES: Early History and Ongoing Developments. Allan Sandage.
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 43: 581-624 -MEGA-MASERS AND GALAXIES. K.Y. Lo.
-MOLECULAR GAS AT HIGH REDSHIFT. P.M. Solomon, P.A. Vanden Bout.
-DUSTY INFRARED GALAXIES: Sources of the Cosmic Infrared Background. Guilaine Lagache, Jean-Loup Puget, Hervé Dole.
-GALACTIC WINDS. Sylvain Veilleux, Gerald Cecil, Joss Bland-Hawthorn.
-DEEP EXTRAGALACTIC X-RAY SURVEYS. W.N. Brandt, G. Hasinger.
-DAMPED LYα SYSTEMS. Arthur M. Wolfe, Eric Gawiser, Jason X. Prochaska.

-Indexes.