Past Meets Present in Astronomy And Astrophysics

CONTENTS......Page 8
Foreword......Page 6
Modern Astrophysics......Page 11
Evolution of the spin of Mercury and its capture into the 3/2 spin-orbit resonance......Page 12
Trans-Neptunian Objects and Associated Families: confronting colors, correlations and evolution models......Page 16
The origin of the spins of Kuiper Belt objects......Page 20
Magnetic Turbulence in the solar wind and the earth's plasma sheet......Page 24
The structure revealed by Spitzer in NGC 2264......Page 28
Recent Results on Interstellar Turbulence......Page 30
Asteroseismology and Variability of Young Stars......Page 34
On the problem of magnetic braking......Page 38
A first step for Automatic Stellar Parameter Determination......Page 42
Giant Transiting Planets Observations - GITPO......Page 46
Probing the structure and atmospheres of extra-solar planets......Page 50
What's going on in Canis Major?......Page 54
Study of three galaxy clusters at intermediate redshifts......Page 58
Modelling the Warm Absorber in NGC 3783 with the TITAN code......Page 62
Astrophysical Tests of Fundamental Physics......Page 66
Gamma Ray Bursts as Cosmological Probes......Page 70
Braneworld cosmology: sneutrino inflation and leptogenesis......Page 74
XCS - Current Status......Page 78
Deep radio observations in the CDFS/GOODS field: optical and X-ray identifications......Page 82
The nature of the optical faint sub-millijansky radio sources: the VLT/VIMOS view......Page 86
AMS - a magnetic spectrometer on the international space station......Page 88
History of Astronomy......Page 90
The legacy of Sacrobosco: Tractatus de Sphaera......Page 91
Astronomical and Geophysical Activities in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) during 1781-88 by Bento Sanches Dorta......Page 95
Comparison between Monteiro da Rocha and Wilhelm Olbers' Methods for the determination of the orbits of comets......Page 97
The 1870 Portuguese solar eclipse expedition - a preliminary report......Page 101
The Science Palaces......Page 105
The astronomer/instrument maker Campos Rodrigues and the contribution of the Observatory of Lisbon for the 1900-1901 solar parallax programme......Page 109
The Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon......Page 113
Time Service and Legal Time in Portugal......Page 117
Documents of the OAL's architecture......Page 121