Reviews in Modern Astronomy: Vol. 17: The Sun and Planetary Systems - Paradigms for the Universe |
| Editor: Reinhard E. Schielicke (Astrophysikalisches Institut und Universitäts-Sternwarte Jena, Germany) |
| Volume 17 continues the Reviews of Modern Astronomy with fourteen invited reviews and Highlight Contributions which were presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on "The Sun and Planetary Systems", held at Freiburg im Breisgau, September 15 to 20, 2003. The Karl Schwarzschild medal 2003 was awarded to Professor Erika Boehm-Vitense, Seattle, USA. Her lecture with the title "What Hyades F Stars tell us about Heating Mechanisms in Stellar Transition Layers and Coronae" opened the meeting. The talk presented by the Ludwig Biermann-Prize winner 2003, Dr Luis R. Bellot Rubio, Freiburg i. Br., Germany, dealt with the topic "The Structure of Sunspots as Inferred from Spectropolarimetric Measurements". Other contributions to the meeting published in this volume discuss, among other subjects, Solar physics, formation of planets, interferometric imaging in astronomy, and, last but not least, the James Webb Space Telescope.
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