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1. The Formation of Brown Dwarfs

   Numerous brown dwarfs have been found in recent years, re-igniting debate about their origin. A natural way to stunt the growth of a nascent stellar...

   Bo Reipurth in The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

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2. Molecular Cloud Structure: The VLT View

   Despite 30 years of molecular spectroscopy of dark clouds little is understood about the internal structure of these objects and consequently about...

   João Alves, Charles Lada, ... Edwin A. Bergin in The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

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3. Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Substellar Companions Next to Young Nearby Stars in TWA

   Direct imaging of substellar companions is possible since several years around nearby stars (e.g. Gl 229) and young stars (e.g. TWA-5). We are...

   Ralph Neuhäuser, Eike Guenther, ... Andreas Eckart in The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

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4. The Spectacular BHR 71 Outflow

   BHR 71 is a well isolated Bok globule located at $\sim 200$ pc,...

   Tyler L. Bourke in The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

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5. Infrared Observation of Hot Cores

   We report on mid-infrared imaging of hot cores performed with SpectroCam-10 and TIMMI2. The observations aimed at the detection of thermal emission...

   Bringfried Stecklum, Bernhard Brandl, ... Ilaria Pascucci in The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

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6. The Kuiper Belt As An Evolved Circumstellar Disk

   In the past decade, more than 400 objects have been discovered in orbit about the sun beyond Neptune. They constitute a vast ring of bodies the...

   David C. Jewitt in The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

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7. From Protoplanetary to Debris Disks

   We discuss the physical difference between protoplanetary and debris (Vega-like) disks and consider the course of evolution which leads from the...

   Carsten Dominik, Cornelius P. Dullemond in The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

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8. Sub-Arcsecond Millimeter Imaging of Disks and Envelopes: Probing the Density Structure

   Sub-arcsecond observations at millimeter wavelengths are providing spectacular images necessary to study directly the circumstellar disks and inner...

   Leslie W. Looney, Lee G. Mundy, W. J. Welch in The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

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9. Extra-Solar Planetary Systems in the VLT Era

   Radial Velocity surveys have revealed 63 exoplanets (M $\sin{i}$...

   Michel Mayor, Nuno C. Santos in The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

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10. VO Activities at the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

    This paper summarizes the VO activities at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Cfa has expertise covering virtually all branches...

    Giuseppina Fabbiano in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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11. Automatic Detection-Extraction-Classification for a Large Number of Stellar Spectra from Slitless Wide Field Spectroscopy. A Project for AVO

    The distribution of spectral types in extended stellar systems in galaxies can be a powerful mine of information regarding:...

    E. Kontizas, I. Bellas-Velidis, ... R. Smareglia in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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12. The Astronomical Data Warehouse

    The idea of the astronomical data warehouse has arisen as the natural extension of current trends in astronomical data archives, and from an analysis...

    Clive G. Page in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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13. Information Hub of the Russian Virtual Observatory

    The ultimate goal of the Russian Virtual Observatory (RVO) initiative is to provide every astronomer with on-line access to the rich volumes of data...

    Oleg Malkov, Olga Dluzhnevskaya, ... Dana Kovaleva in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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14. The Astronomy Digital Library and the VO

    The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is the central part of the Digital Library in Astronomy. It provides the users with a search system for the...

    Guenther Eichhorn, Alberto Accomazzi, ... Stephen S. Murray in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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15. The INTEGRAL Archive at the ISDC

    Katja Pottschmidt, Katja Pottschmidt in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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16. HyperLeda: Virtual Instruments for Extragalactic Astronomy

    HyperLeda offers a series of tools of interest for Galactic and extra-galactic astronomy. The most prominent service is the LEDA catalogue which...

    Philippe Prugniel, Georges Paturel, ... Chantal Petit in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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17. A Practical Approach to Catalogued-Data Visualisation

    Catalogued data is one of the ways information will be collected from VO. The selected material will contain many physical quantities (columns) and...

    Patricio F. Ortiz, Joachim Köppen in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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18. The Russian Virtual Observatory Project Insight

    The main principles and approaches of the Russian Virtual Observatory (RVO) Project are described.

    Vladimir V. Vitkovskij, Olga Zhelenkova, ... Vladimir Shergin in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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19. Visualizing and Analyzing Massive Astronomical Datasets with Partiview

    Partiview is an advanced, real-time visualization tool for multi-dimensional datasets. Developed at NCSA, Partiview has cross-platform compatibility...

    Brian P. Abbott, Carter B. Emmart, ... Charles T. Liu in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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20. e-Science and the Grid

    Many areas of science involve access to distributed computing and data resources, specialized and expensive instruments for world-wide collaborations...

    Marcel Kunze in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

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