Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy Volume 6
This book is the sixth volume under the title Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy (OSA). The OSA series is intended to cover a large range of fields and themes. In practice, one could say that all aspects of astronomy-related life and environment ar
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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 335
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, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands MEMBERS F. BERTOLA, University of Padua, Italy J. P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. C. J. CESARSKY, European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany O. ENGVOLD, University of Oslo, Norway A. HECK, Strassbourg Astronomical Observatory, France R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, 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, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan S. TREMAINE, Princeton University, U.S.A. N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.
ORGANIZATIONS AND STRATEGIES IN ASTRONOMY VOLUME 6
Edited by ANDRÉ HECK Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13
1-4020-4055-5 (HB) 978-1-4020-4055-9 (HB) 1-4020-4056-3 (e-book) 978-1-4020-4056-6 (e-book)
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Table of contents • Foreword
(C. Cesarsky/ESO)
vii
• Editorial
1
• The Evolving Sociology of Ground-Based Optical
and Infrared Astronomy at the Start of the 21st Century (J.R. Roy & M. Mountain/Gemini Obs.)
11
• Building Astronomy Research Capacity in Africa
(P. Martinez/SAAO)
39
• Astronomy in New Zealand
(J.B. Hearnshaw/Univ. Canterbury)
63
• The Current State of Austrian Astronomy
(S. Schindler/Univ. Innsbruck)
87
• Challenges and Opportunities in Operating
a High-Altitude Site (R. Stencel/Denver Univ.)
97
• An Insider’s Perspective
on Observing Time Selection Committees (J.L. Linsky/JILA)
111
• Evaluation and Selection of Solar Observing Programs
(H. Uitenbroek/NSO)
117
• Evaluation and Selection of Radio Astronomy Programs:
The Case of the 100m Radio Telescope at Eff
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