Science with the VLT Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 28 June – 1 July 1994
ESO's new and exciting telescope, the VTL in Chile, will certainly bring a host of new results in optical astronomy for the years to come. This workshop surveys a large variety of possible observations and the needed instrumentation. It is an exciting overview of front research in astronomy rar...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1995, 1995
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1995 |
| Series: | ESO Astrophysics Symposia, European Southern Observatory
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- VLT High-Speed Spectro-Photometry: A Powerful Tool for Exploring Compact Stellar Objects and Related Phenomena
- Observational Astrophysics on Milli-, Micro-, and Nanosecond Timescales
- Problems and Prospects in White Dwarf Stars
- Mass Determination of Very Low Mass Stars
- Evolution of Massive Stars and the VLT
- 4 Stellar Clusters
- Globular Clusters with the VLT
- Detailed Analysis of Stars in the Galactic Bulge with the VLT
- Deep Star Counts and Cosmological Backgrounds: A Powerful New Model for the Point Source Sky
- 5 Interstellar Medium
- High Resolution Spectroscopy of the Interstellar Medium
- The Interstellar Medium in Galaxies
- 6 Astronomical Targets in Nearby Galaxies
- Supernovae and the VLT: More Light to Examine
- Supernovae with the VLT
- Late Stages of Supernovae with the VLT
- Faint Planetary Nebulae as Mass Tracers for Early Type Galaxies
- Resolving Distant Galaxies into Stars
- Proper Motions for the Nearest Galaxies Using ASTROCAM on the VLT
- Quantitative Spectroscopy of Luminous Blue Stars in Distant Galaxies
- Distance Indicators and the Expansion Field of the Universe
- Distance Indicators: Beyond Distances — A Return to Astrophysics
- 7 Active Galactic Nuclei
- High Resolution Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy with the VLT: Galactic Nuclei
- Resolving Extragalactic Nuclei with the VLT
- Galaxy Dynamics, Black Holes and FUEGOS: Prospects for Studying Stellar Dynamics
- The VLT Contribution to Development of AGN Unified Schemes
- Subarcsecond Observations of Galactic Nuclei
- The AGN Environment
- 8 Quasars
- Quasar Surveys and the VLT
- QSO Absorption Line Systems
- 9 The Distant Universe
- Observational Cosmology with Faint Galaxies and a (9±1)-meter Telescope
- Deep Spectroscopy of 780 Galaxies: Results and Prospects for the VLT
- Deep Redshift Surveys on Faint Galaxies: Prospects for the VLT above z=1
- 1 The Solar System and Extra-Solar System Planets
- The Solar System and the VLT
- Very Distant Objects in the Solar System
- How to Search for Extra-Solar Planets with the VLT/VISA
- Astrometric Detection and Investigation of Planetary Systems with the VLT Interferometer
- 2 Star Formation
- Star Formation Studies with the VLT
- Circumstellar Disks with VLT/VLTI
- 3 Stellar Astrophysics
- Do We Need the VLT to Study Nearby Stellar Populations?
- Nucleosynthesis in the First Galactic Stars
- Elemental and Isotopic Abundances in Metal-Poor Stars
- Stellar Surface Structure: Doppler Imaging with the VLT-UVES
- Observation of Surface Activity on Cool Giants with the VLT Interferometer
- Imaging the Surfaces of Late-Type Stars
- A Sharper View on (Post-) AGB Evolution
- The Asymptotic Giant Branch in the LMC, SMC and the Galactic Center
- Prospects for Circumstellar Physics. Observations and Models
- Compact Stars In and Out of Binaries
- VLT Observations with Large Natural Gravitational Telescopes
- Integral Field Spectroscopy of Selected Extragalactic Objects with FUEGOS
- Perspectives in the Study of Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Evolution with the VLT
- The Nature of Compact Objects at R=23
- Faint AGNs, Evolution and the X-Ray Background
- 10 High-Resolution Imaging and Interferometry
- High-Resolution Imaging with the VLT at Optical Wavelengths
- From Planets to Galaxies: Adaptive Optics Revolution and VLT Interferometry
- A Strategy for High Angular Resolution Astrophysical Programmes at the VLT in the Visible
- Narrow-Angle Astrometry with the VLT Interferometer
- 11 Strategies for Use of the VLT
- Flexible Professional Observing at the VLT
- The VLT: max (4 × 8; 1 × 16; 1/X × 64)?
- 12Synopses of Panel Discussions
- I. Interferometry
- II. Future Instrumentation