A Decade of Hubble Space Telescope Science

by Edited by Mario Livio , Keith Noll , Massimo Stiavelli

• ISBN13: 9780521824590
• ISBN10: 0521824591
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

The Hubble Space Telescope has made some of the most dramatic discoveries in the history of astronomy. From its vantage point 600km above the Earth, Hubble is able to capture images and spectra that would be difficult or impossible to obtain from the ground. This volume represents some of the most important scientific achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope in its first decade of operation. Written by world experts, the book covers topics ranging from our own solar system to cosmology. Chapters describe cutting edge discoveries in the study of Mars and Jupiter, of stellar birth and death, of star clusters, of the interstellar medium, of our own Milky Way Galaxy and of other galaxies, of supermassive black holes, and of the determination of cosmological parameters, including the age and ultimate fate of our universe. This is an indispensable collection of review articles for researchers and graduate students.

Table of Contents

Participants	vii
Preface	x
HST studies of Mars
J.F. Bell III	1	(24)
HST images of Jupiter's UV aurora
J.T. Clarke	25	(19)
Star formation
J. Bally	44	(20)
SN1987A: The birth of a supernova remnant
R. McCray	64	(14)
Globular clusters: The view from HST
W.E. Harris	78	(23)
Ultraviolet absorption line studies of the Galactic interstellar medium with the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
B.D. Savage	101	(18)
HST's view of the center of the Milky Way galaxy
M.J. Rieke	119	(9)
Stellar populations in dwarf galaxies: A review of the contribution of HST to our understanding of the nearby universe
E. Tolstoy	128	(25)
The formation of star clusters
B.C. Whitmore	153	(26)
Starburst galaxies observed with the Hubble Space Telescope
C. Leitherer	179	(19)
Supermassive black holes
F.D. Macchetto	198	(16)
The HST Key Project to measure the Hubble Constant
W.L. Freedman, R.C. Kennicutt, J.R. Mould, & B.F. Madore	214
H0 from Type Ia supernovae
G.A. Tammann, A. Sandage, & A. Saha	22	(225)
Strong gravitational lensing: Cosmology from angles and redshifts
A. Tyson	247