Cores to Clusters A Scientific Autobiography

Toward the second half of this decade, several major telescope facilities operating in the infrared, sub-millimeter, and millimeter wave bands will become operational. These missions are expected to throw much light on our understanding of the star format

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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 324

EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W.B. BURTON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. ([email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands ([email protected]) Executive Committee J. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands MEMBERS I. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Germany J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. F. BERTOLA, Universitá di Padova, Italy J. P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. C. J. CESARSKY, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France O. ENGVOLD, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, JILA, Boulder, U.S.A. P. G. MURDIN, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, U.K. F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India K. SATO, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan S. TREMAINE, CITA, Princeton University, U.S.A. N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.

CORES TO CLUSTERS A Scientific Autobiography

Edited by M.S.N. KUMAR Center for Astrophysics, University of Porto, Portugal

M. TAFALLA National Astronomical Observatory, Madrid, Spain And

P. CASELLI Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence, Italy

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

M.S.N. Kumar

P. Caselli

CAUP University of Porto Rua das Estrelas Porto 4150-762 Portugal

INAF Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory Florence 50125 Italy

M. Tafalla National Astronomical Observatory Alfonso XII, 3 Madrid E-28014 Spain

ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-387-26322-5 (HB) 978-0387-26322-9 (HB) 0-387-26357-8 (e-book) 0-387-26357-1 (e-book)

Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Cover images: JHK color composite of IRAS22134+5834 ring cluster made using the UIST instrument on the 3.8m UKIRT at Hawaii (image credit: Nanda Kumar and Chris Davis) and Clerigos Tower of Porto. Cover Design: Ricardo Samuel Reis.

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