Highlights of Astronomy: As presented at the XXth General Assembly of the IAU, 1988

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Halley’s Comet (Part I): Ground-based Observations....Pages 3-16
Halley’s Comet (Part II): Space Studies....Pages 17-31
The Rise and Fall of Quasars....Pages 33-44
Galaxy Formation and Dark Matter....Pages 45-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
New Developments in Documentation and Data Services for Astronomers....Pages 69-96
The Selection of Scientific and Technical Records for Permanent Retention....Pages 97-100
New Observational Clues on Binary Formation in the Galaxy....Pages 103-107
A Search for Planetary-Mass Companions to Nearby Stars....Pages 109-110
Spectroscopic Binaries among Low-Mass Pre-Main Sequence Stars....Pages 111-115
Binary Frequency among Pre-Main Sequence Stars in Taurus and Ophiuchus....Pages 117-118
Brown Dwarfs in Binary Systems....Pages 119-122
Cloud Collapse and Fragmentation....Pages 123-126
Criteria for Collapse and Fragmentation of Rotating Clouds....Pages 127-128
Mathematical Status of the Fission Theory....Pages 129-131
Numerical Simulations of Fission....Pages 133-135
The J vs. M Relation for Binary Stars....Pages 137-138
The Formation and Evolution of Binaries in Globular Clusters....Pages 139-142
Binaries from Unstable Triples. Dynamical Processes of Formation....Pages 143-144
“Undisturbed” Evolution in Binaries....Pages 145-148
Disturbed Binaries: The Early Phases....Pages 149-152
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Binary Wolf-Rayet Stars....Pages 153-154
Progress of Common Envelope Evolution....Pages 155-159
Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 161-165
Evolution of Cataclysmic Binaries....Pages 167-171
THE AM Her PERIOD SPIKE....Pages 173-174
A New Progenitor Model of Type Ia Supernovae....Pages 175-176
Concluding Remarks....Pages 177-180
Editorial....Pages 183-183
Supernova 1987A: Light Curves and Their Intepretation....Pages 185-192
Evidence for Asymmetries in SN1987A....Pages 193-198
Gamma-Ray Lines from SN1987A and Interpretation....Pages 199-206
Interpretation of the CO Bands of Supernova 1987A....Pages 207-211
Three Dimensional Hydrodynamical Simulation of Type II Supernova....Pages 213-214
NLTE Calculations of Hydrogen Line Profiles for SN1987A....Pages 215-216
Non-Equilibrium Thermal X-ray Emission in the Early Phase of Supernova Remnant....Pages 217-221
Effects of the soft X-ray burst from SN 1987A on its circumstellar medium....Pages 223-228
Neutrinos: Detection and Interpretation....Pages 229-237
From Interstellar Dust to Comet Dust and Interplanetary Particles....Pages 241-250
What are Families of Minor Planets?....Pages 251-257
IRAS Dust Bands and the Origin of the Zodiacal Cloud....Pages 259-266
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Spatially Varying Optical Properties of the Zodiacal Dust....Pages 267-272
What We Know About Families of Asteroids....Pages 273-279
Comets, Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust....Pages 281-286
Dynamics and Spatial Shape of Short-Period Meteoroid Streams....Pages 287-293
Cometary Dust and Zodiacal Light Connection....Pages 295-304
Dust from the Comets....Pages 305-312
The Origin and Physical Characteristics of Meteoroids....Pages 313-319
Atomic and Molecular Data for Diffuse Cloud Chemistry....Pages 323-330
Ultraviolet, Visible, and Infrared Spectroscopy of Interstellar Molecules....Pages 331-338
Microwave Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Molecules....Pages 339-344
Some Salient Features of Evolving Models of Interstellar Clouds....Pages 345-355
Molecules in Circumstellar Envelopes....Pages 357-364
Atomic and Molecular Data for Stellar Physics....Pages 365-368
Chemistry in Dense Interstellar Clouds - Data Requirements....Pages 369-374
Chemistry in Shocks....Pages 375-382
Chemical Effects of Interstellar Grains....Pages 383-386
The Volatile Composition of Comets....Pages 387-393
Atmospheres of Planets and Their Satellites....Pages 395-395
The Far-Infrared (IRAS) Excess in Roberts 22 and Related Objects....Pages 399-401
Recent Observations of the Beams in SS433....Pages 403-408
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Large Scale Jets In Class I and Class II Radio Sources and Quasars....Pages 409-416
Synchrotron Thermal Instabilities and Radio Filaments in the Lobes of Cygnus A....Pages 417-422
Gravitation and Jet Induced Velocities in the Narrow Line Region of Active Galaxies....Pages 423-427
Two-Flow Model for Extragalactic Radio Jets....Pages 429-432
The Science Program of the Hubble Space Telescope....Pages 435-439
Hubble Space Telescope Second Generation Instrument Selection....Pages 441-442
Wide Field / Planetary Camera-II for the Hubble Space Telescope....Pages 443-444
The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph....Pages 445-448
The Next Generation: An 8–16 M Space Telescope....Pages 449-453
Space Astronomy — The Next Thirty Years....Pages 455-460
Front Matter....Pages 461-461
For Milliarcsecond or Better Accuracy....Pages 465-489
Gordon Newkirk’s Contributions to Coronal Studies....Pages 503-512
Structure of the Solar Corona....Pages 513-516
Coronal Heating: Theoretical Ideas....Pages 517-520
An Update on X-Ray Emission from Stars....Pages 521-524
Solar and Stellar Winds....Pages 525-528
Coronal Instabilities....Pages 529-533
Accretion Disk Coronae....Pages 535-538
Solar and Stellar Flares....Pages 539-542
Introduction to the Joint Commission Meeting on High Resolution Imaging from the Ground....Pages 545-546
Front Matter....Pages 461-461
Principles of Imaging Using Arrays....Pages 547-548
Is the Imaging Problem Identical in All Wave Bands?....Pages 549-550
Review of Linked Array Instruments....Pages 551-552
Very Long Baseline Interferometry....Pages 553-554
Millimeter Wave Interferometry....Pages 555-556
Meter Wave Interferometry....Pages 557-558
Long Baseline Optical Interferometry....Pages 559-560
Speckle Interferometry....Pages 561-562
Infrared Long Baseline Interferometry....Pages 563-564
Active Control and Adaptive Optics for Optical Interferometers....Pages 565-566
Galactic and Extragalactic Applications....Pages 567-568
The Application of Optical Arrays to Solar System and Stellar Problems....Pages 569-570
Optical Interferometry: Summary and Perspectives....Pages 571-572
The Molecular Spiral Structure in M51 Derived from CO(J=2-1) Line Observations....Pages 575-577
Molecular Cloud Spiral Arms and Results from Tidal Interaction Modeling....Pages 579-580
CO in NGC4438 and Tidal Stripping in the Virgo Cluster....Pages 581-582
CO Observations of the Central Region of NGC4258....Pages 583-584
The Correlation of CO and IR Emission from Galaxies: What does it Tell Us?....Pages 585-586
Can Galactic GMCs be Identified from l -v Diagrams?....Pages 587-588
Warm Gas and Spatial Variations of Molecular Excitation in the Nuclear Region of IC342....Pages 589-590
Front Matter....Pages 461-461
Recent CO(2-1) Observations of Galaxies with the CSO....Pages 591-592
Molecules in Galaxies: Results from Bell Laboratories....Pages 593-594
CO in M82 and Other Mildly Active Galaxies....Pages 595-596
Molecular Clouds in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies....Pages 597-598
Molecular Clouds in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds....Pages 599-600
CO in Early Type Galaxies....Pages 601-602
The Ratio of H 2 to HI Gas in Infrared Luminous Galaxies....Pages 603-604
Molecular Gas in Galactic Nuclei....Pages 605-607
Joint Commission Meeting 5, JCM5: Spectroscopy of Individual Stars in Globular Clusters and the Early Chemical Evolution of our Galaxy....Pages 611-614
Introduction and Basic References for Stellar Photometry with CCD....Pages 617-621
CCD Imagers for Astronomy: Past Problems and Future Hopes....Pages 623-627
The CCD Mosaic Project by ESO and INSU/Toulouse Observatory....Pages 629-630
Ground-Based Photometric Calibration of the Space Telescope CCD Camera....Pages 631-634
Some Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Stellar Photometry with CCDs (And some ways of dealing with them)....Pages 635-644
CCD Data Taking Modes and Flatfielding Problems....Pages 645-650
High Precision Crowded Field Photometry....Pages 651-656
Analytical Approximations of Long-Exposure Point Spread Functions and their Use....Pages 657-661
Photometric Data Archives....Pages 663-664
Star Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 665-665
Front Matter....Pages 667-667
Commissions 10 and 12 Systematic Observations of the Sun....Pages 671-678
Front Matter....Pages 679-679
The Microwave Background Radiation: Recent Advances and New Problems....Pages 681-688
Submillimeter Spectrum of the Cosmic Background Radiation....Pages 689-691
The status of Big Bang nucleosynthesis in July 1988....Pages 693-696
Back Matter....Pages 697-699