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On the occasion of the retirement of Ulrich Schwarz, a symposium was held in Groningen in May of 1996, celebrating his contributions to the study of the int- stellar medium, including his work on the high-velocity clouds. The coming together of many specialists in the latter ?eld prompted the idea of compiling a book c- taining their contributions, and summarizing the status of our understanding of the high-velocity cloud phenomenon. This seemed especially worthwhile at the time, since many exciting developments were taking place. After the discovery of some H i clouds with high velocities, about 40 years ago, the subject had been dominated by 21-cm observations of H i emission. Starting in the mid-1980s much progress was being made because of the availability of new instruments, such as large ground-based optical telescopes and UV observatories in space. The connections between the work on high-velocity clouds and other studies of the properties of the (hot) interstellar medium also became clearer.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Astronomy, space & time

• Full title: High-Velocity Clouds
• Author: Hugo van Woerden, Bart Wakker, Ulrich Schwarz
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 406
• EAN: 9781402025785
• ISBN: 1402025785
• ID: 02706153
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 870 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2004

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