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Searching the Trans-Neptunian Region
The Edgeworth-Kuiper-Belt is considered to be the remnant of the formation disk of the planetary system around the Sun. For about 8 years the...
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Course 15: Observations of the High Energy $\gamma$ -Ray Universe
This article describes the nature and current status of observational programs studying astrophysical high energy...
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Course 1: Accretion and Ejection-Related MHD
This lecture is an introduction to MHD. Relevant equations, both in the classical and special-relativistic regimes are derived. The magnetic field...
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Course 7: Cosmic Rays and Particle Acceleration at Astrophysical Shocks
The acceleration of particles in the vicinity of astrophysical shocks has become the main paradigm in astrophysics for the production of cosmic rays...
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Course 12: Evolution of YSO Disks
As stars and planets form from accretion processes in disks, it is important to understand these processes and their evolutionary implications. While...
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Course 11: Accretion Signatures in Young Stellar Objects
Mass accretion onto the star is taken place in young stellar objects, providing the energy needed to power the excess emission observed at all...
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Course 8: The Black Hole Environments
Compact objects are astrophysical entities with radii smaller than about 10 Schwarzschild radii. The mass spectrum of these objects ranges from the...
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Course 13: X-Rays from YSOS: Desperately Seeking the Central Engine
The earliest stages of the evolution of low-mass stars are characterized by the presence of powerful jets, likely originating from accretion via...
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Course 6: Gamma-Ray Bursts
This lecture is an introduction to the study of gamma-ray bursts. Observations of the burst and its afterglow are first reviewed, with the...
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Course 9: Accretion around Active Galactic Nuclei
In bright AGN, at distances of several Schwarzschild radii, the accretion onto a black hole proceeds predominantly in a form of a cool accretion...
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Laboratory Limits on Neutrino Masses
The recent neutrino oscillation experiments have obtained nonzero differences of squared neutrino masses and therefore proven that neutrinos are...
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Experimental Results on Neutrino Oscillations
Neutrino physics, in particular the question of neutrino mass and oscillations, is currently giving rise to a minirevolution in particle physics....
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Astrophysical and Cosmological Constraints on Neutrino Masses
We review some astrophysical and cosmological properties and implications of neutrino masses and mixing angles. These include constraints based on...
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Planet Formation
Motivating the study of planet formation is not difficult for any curious audience. One of the fundamental human questions is that of origins: “where...
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Orbit Dynamics, Stability and Chaos in Planetary Systems
Let us start with a problem of dynamical biology, which was posed about 800 years ago by Fibonacci1
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Velocity Dispersion Analysis of CNOC Clusters
I present results of the analysis of the internal velocity dispersions,...
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Magellanic Cloud Eclipsing Binaries: Distances and Dimensions
In this contribution we analyse previously unpublished radial velocity curves in conjunction with other already published light curves, Strömgren...
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The Galactic Bulge: Prospects for the VLT
The central bulge of the Galaxy is 100 times closer than the nearest extragalactic bulge, that of M31. Until the era of 100m telescopes arrives, the...
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The Stellar Mass Function
Considerable progress has been made recently in more accurately determining the frequency distribution of stellar masses in the critical 0.1 to 1 m...
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Extrasolar Planets Transits: Detection and Follow-Up
The detection of transits has a rich potential of information about extrasolar planets. This contribution gives an overview and new perspectives on...