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In May 1986 a two-day workshop on Physical Processes in Comets, Stars and Active Galaxies was held at the Ringberg Castle near Lake Tegernsee, and this rather unusml. l collection of topics needs a few words of explanation. When we first thought of organizing a workshop on such a large variety of astrophysical objects our main motivation was to honor Rudolf Kippenhahn and Hermann Ulrich Schmidt on the occasion of their 60th birthdays, and we planned to cover at least a fraction of their fields of active research. We then realized immediately that despite the fact that the objects are so different, the physical processes involved are very much the same, and that it is this aspect of astrophysics which governed the scientific lives of both of our distinguished colleagues and friends and allowed them to make major contributions to all those fields. Apparently this viewpoint was shared by many colleagues and it was therefore not surprising that in response to our invitation everybody who had been invited agreed to come and to present a talk. The workshop then turned out to be a real success. In contrast to highly specialized conferences, fundamental problems as well as very recent devel­ opments were discussed and the participants appreciated the opportunity to exchange ideas.

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Author:   Wolfgang Hillebrandt ,  Emmi Meyer-Hofmeister ,  Hans-Christoph Thomas
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9783642726422

ISBN 10:   3642726429
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   13 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I The Physics of Comets.- Comet Explorations. (With 7 Figures).- Spatial Distribution of Constituents in the Coma of Comet Halley, an Observing Programme at the ESO 1-m Telescope (With 6 Figures).- On the Average Chemical Composition of Cometary Dust (With 3 Figures).- The Interaction of the Solar Wind with a Comet (With 7 Figures).- II The Sun as a Star.- Rotation and Magnetic Fields in the Sun (With 3 Figures).- Modelling of the Magnetic Field of Solar Prominences (With 2 Figures).- On the Frequencies of Solar Oscillations (With 5 Figures).- Mixing and Transport of Angular Momentum in the Solar Interior.- III Single and Binary Stars.- Models of Star Formation. (With 1 Figure).- Time Dependent Convection in Stars — a Review of the Theories.- Infrared Giants. (With 2 Figures).- On the Solutions for Contact Binary Systems (With 7 Figures).- White Dwarfs in Close Binaries. (With 1 Figure).- IV Active Galactic Nuclei.- Active Galactic Nuclei: Ten Theoretical Problems.- Observations of a Complete Sample of Relativistic Sources in Active Galactic Nuclei. (With 2 Figures).- Optical Emission from Radio Hotspots.- Index of Contributors.

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