High-Velocity Clouds (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

Van Woerden, Hugo (editor); Wakker, Bart P. (editor); Schwartz, Ulrich J. (editor); De Boer, Klaas S, (editor)

ISBN 10: 1402025785 / ISBN 13: 9781402025785

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: High-Velocity Clouds (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402025785
• ISBN 13: 9781402025785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science: Physics
  • Science

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Synopsis

On the occasion of the retirement of Ulrich Schwarz, a symposium was held in Groningen in May of 1996, celebrating his contributions to the study of the int- stellar medium, including his work on the high-velocity clouds. The coming together of many specialists in the latter ?eld prompted the idea of compiling a book c- taining their contributions, and summarizing the status of our understanding of the high-velocity cloud phenomenon. This seemed especially worthwhile at the time, since many exciting developments were taking place. After the discovery of some H i clouds with high velocities, about 40 years ago, the subject had been dominated by 21-cm observations of H i emission. Starting in the mid-1980s much progress was being made because of the availability of new instruments, such as large ground-based optical telescopes and UV observatories in space. The connections between the work on high-velocity clouds and other studies of the properties of the (hot) interstellar medium also became clearer.