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-Title: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Volume 45, 2007.
-Authors:
John Kormendy; Ewine Van Dishoek; Roger Blandford (Edit.).
-Publisher:
Annual Reviews, Inc.
-Pages:
701
-Illustrations:
B/W and color photos and graphics.
-Language:
English.
-Publication Date:
October 2007.
-ISBN: 0824309456

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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The Editorial Committee meeting for Volume 45 was held in Palo Alto on April 30, 2005.

(Extracted from the preface).

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

-Preface.
-Contents.
-An Accidental Career. Geoffrey Burbidge.
-The Beginning of Modern Infrared Astronomy. Frank J. Low, G.H. Rieke, and R.D. Gehrz.
-Infrared Detector Arrays for Astronomy. G.H. Rieke.
-Heating Hot Atmospheres with Active Galactic Nuclei. B.R. McNamara, and P.E.J. Nulsen.
-Physical Properties of Wolf-Rayet Stars. Paul A. Crowther.
-The Search for the Missing Baryons at Low Redshift. Joel N. Bregman.
-Irregular Satellites of the Planets: Products of Capture in the Early Solar System. David Jewitt, and Nader Haghighipour.
-A New View of the Coupling of the Sun and the Heliosphere. Thomas H. Zurbuchen.
-Cold Dark Clouds: The Initial Conditions for Star Formation. Edwin A. Bergin, and Mario Tafalla.
-Statistical Properties of Exoplanets. Stéphane Udry, and Nuno C. Santos.
-Relativistic X-Ray Lines from the Inner Accretion Disks Around Black Holes. J.M. Miller.
-Toward Understanding Massive Star Formation. Hans Zinnecker, and Harold W. Yorke.
-Theory of Star Formation. Christopher F. McKee, and Eve C. Ostriker.
-Indexes.

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