Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2002, Astronomische Nachrichten Supplementary Issue 1/2003: The Central 300 Parsecs of the Milky Way

by Editor: Angela Cotera (SETI Institute, Arizona State University, USA); Editor: Sera Markoff (Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany, Bonn, Germany); Editor: Thomas R. Geballe (Gemini Observatory, Haiti); Editor: Heino Falcke (Max

• ISBN13: 9783527617999
• ISBN10: 352761799X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

Our knowledge of the environment of the nucleus of our galaxy has been greatly enhanced, by more extensive and sensitive observations at radio and infrared wavelengths, the advent of high resolution x-ray imaging and spectroscopy, and considerable theoretical activity to understand the nucleus and its components, and their activity. The Galactic Center Workshop 2002 was organized to review recent research on the galactic center, including the latest state-of-the-art observations and important theoretical developments. The workshop covered phenomena on scales ranging from the central several hundred parsecs to the central parsec and within. Each topic was approached from both multi-wavelength observational and theoretical perspectives.