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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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Basics of Plasma Physics
Basic properties of plasmas are introduced, which are valid for an extremely wide range of plasma parameters. Plasmas are classified by different...
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Strongly Coupled Plasmas
We give a brief introduction into the basic many-particle effectes in strongly coupled plasmas and their theoretical treatment. Exemplary results are...
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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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Magnetic Confinement
This chapter describes the basic principles of magnetic confinement. The main representatives of magnetic confinement are the mirror machine, the...
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Observation of Plasma Fluctuations
The diagnostics of fluctuating plasma quantities and their evaluation is an important issue in the context of plasma waves, instabilities, and...
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Low Temperature Plasmas
Characteristic properties and generation mechanisms of low temperature plasmas in different gas discharges are presented. A special part is focussed...
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Clusters of Galaxies at High Redshift
For a long time, the small number of clusters at z > 0.3 in the Abell survey catalogue and simulations of the standard CDM formation of large scale...
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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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The Metal Enrichment History of Clusters of Galaxies
The ratio of the total iron mass in the ICM to the total optical luminosity of the cluster (the iron mass-to-light-ratio) is the same for all...
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Supernovae at High Redshift
Distant supernovae provide a convenient tool for cosmology. As bright beacons with small variation in their peak luminosity Type Ia Supernovae can be...
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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 Old Population of the Magellanic Clouds
The brightest old stars in the LMC are as faint as V=16 (V=16.5 in the SMC). The VLT with UVES or GIRAFFE will provide, for the first time, high...
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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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Discovery of an X-Ray Outburst in an Optically Non-Active Galaxy
The main X-ray and optical properties of a very luminous X-ray outburst source are summarized. The results are: large variability in X-ray emission...
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Gamma-Ray Observations of Black Holes: The Prospects of INTEGRAL
In this paper we describe the upcoming European gamma-ray observatory INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory). This ESA satellite...
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A Search for the Presence of Bow Shocks around High-Mass X-Ray Binaries
The measured radial velocities, and the recently derived tangential velocities based on Hipparcos observations, have demonstrated that several...
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X-Ray Candidates for a Population of Nuclear Cores in Local Group Galaxies
Because of their closeness, the galaxies of the Local Group are an interesting sample for finding weak manifestations of nuclear activity (as is...
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Evidence of a Supernova Origin for the Black Hole in GRO J1655-40 (Nova Scorpii 1994)
We report the discovery of a strong overabundance of several $\alpha$...
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Synergy Between the VLT and the NGST
Three major astronomical facilities will address the distant universe and processes of star formation in the next decade: the Next Generation Space...