Reviews in Modern Astronomy 12:
Astronomical Instruments and Methods at the Turn of the 21st Century
Table of Contents:
- Karl Schwarzschild Lecture:
Steps to the Large Binocular Telescope - and Beyond
By Peter A. Strittmatter (with 10 figures)
- Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture:
The Spatial Distribution and Origin of the Widely Dispersed ROSAT T Tauri Stars
By Ralph Neuhäuser (with 3 figures)
- Space Research at the Threshold of the 21st Century - Aims and Technologies
By Martin C.E. Huber (with 10 figures)
- High-Resolution Millimeter and Submm Astronomy: Recent Results and New Directions
By Dennis Downes (with 13 figures)
- DIVA - Beyond HIPPARCOS and Towards GAIA
By Siegfried Röser (with 7 figures)
- SOFIA - Astronomy and Technology in the 21st Century
By Alfred Krabbe and Hans Peter Röser (with 14 figures)
- Lensing by Large-Scale Structures
By Bernard P. Fort (with 3 figures)
- Cosmological Lensing as a Universal Astrophysical Tool
By Joachim Wambsganss (with 9 figures)
- Frontiers in High-Energy Astroparticle Physics
By Karl Mannheim (with 7 figures)
- Brown Dwarfs: The First Three Years
By Gibor B. Basri
- Results from the IRAM Key Project: "Small Scale Structure of Pre-Star forming Regions"
By Andreas Heithausen, Jürgen Stutzki, Frank Bensch, Edith Falgarone, and Jean-François Panis (with 10 figures)
- The Galactic Center
By Wolfgang J. Duschl (with 5 figures)
- The Evolution of the QSO Luminosity Function between z = 0 and z = 3
By Lutz Wisotzki (with 11 figures)
- Spectroscopy of Hot Hydrogen Deficient White Dwarfs
By Stefan Dreizler (with 9 figures)
- Hot Stars in Globular Clusters
By Sabine Moehler (with 11 figures)
- Modeling Encounters of Galaxies: The Case of NGC 4449
By Christian Theis (with 18 figures)