This volume contains 14 analytic reviews of the recent research literature in selected topical areas...
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This volume contains 14 analytic reviews of the recent research literature in selected topical areas of astronomy and astrophysics. Topics examined include the H1 distribution of the Milky Way; progenitors of core-collapse supernovae; gravitational waves from merging compact binaries; physical properties and environments of nearby galaxies; hot subdwarf stars; high-contrast observations in optical and infrared astronomy; magnetic reconnection in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas; magnetic fields of nondegenerate stars; star-formation histories, abundances, and kinematics of dwarf galaxies in the local group; complex organic interstellar molecules; the chemical composition of the sun; teraelectronvolt astronomy; and the study of gamma-ray bursts in the era of the Swift satellite. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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