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The Impact of HST on European Astronomy

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. F. Duccio Macchetto

    1. (STSCI), Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, U.S.A.

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  • Offers a broad perspective of the advancements made possible by the HST over its almost two decades of operation
  • Emphasizes the impact of the HST advancements on European astronomical research
  • With a Foreword by Malcolm Longair
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (ASSSP)

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Table of contents (55 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIV
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  2. Stars, Star Formation, Stellar Populations and Planets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. Stars, star formation, stellar populations and planets

    1. Hot Massive Stars: The Impact of HST

      • Paul A. Crowther
      Pages 3-10

    2. HST Spectroscopy of the Hottest White Dwarfs

      • Thomas Rauch, Klaus Werner
      Pages 11-14

    3. Key Abundance Tracers in the UV: From the Lightest to the Heaviest

      • Francesca Primas
      Pages 15-18

    4. UV Spectroscopy of Metal-Poor Massive Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

      • Daniel J. Lennon
      Pages 19-22

    5. Star Formation Histories of Resolved Galaxies

      • Monica Tosi
      Pages 23-30

    6. HST’s View of the Youngest Massive Stars in the Magellanic Clouds

      • M. Heydari-Malayeri, M. R. Rosa, V. Charmandaris, L. Deharveng, F. Martins, F. Meynadier et al.
      Pages 31-36

    7. Planetary Nebulae and Their Central Stars in the Magellanic Clouds

      • Eva Villaver, Letizia Stanghellini, Richard A. Shaw
      Pages 37-40

    8. A Look at Neutron Stars with HST: From Positions to Physics

      • Patrizia Caraveo
      Pages 41-45

    9. The HST Contribution to Neutron Star Astronomy

      • Roberto P. Mignani
      Pages 47-50

    10. Exotic Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters

      • Francesco R. Ferraro
      Pages 51-54

    11. The Stellar Mass Function in Globular Clusters

      • Guido De Marchi
      Pages 55-59

    12. Early Phases of Protoplanetary Disk Evolution

      • Inga Kamp
      Pages 61-64

    13. Unveiling the Role of Jets in Star Formation

      • Deirdre Coffey, Francesca Bacciotti, Thomas P. Ray, Jochen Eislöffel
      Pages 65-69

    14. A Hubble View of Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds

      • Dimitrios A. Gouliermis, Thomas Henning, Wolfgang Brandner, Michael R. Rosa, Andrew E. Dolphin, Markus Schmalzl et al.
      Pages 71-75

    15. A Preliminary Budget for the Ionizing Photons in HII Regions of M51

      • Leonel Gutiérrez, John Beckman
      Pages 77-79

  4. Nearby Galaxies, Bulges, Spheroids and Galaxy Formation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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  5. Nearby galaxies, bulges, spheroids and galaxy formation

    1. New HST Views at Old Stellar Systems

      • Alvio Renzini
      Pages 83-90

    2. Young Massive Star Clusters in the Era of the Hubble Space Telescope

      • Richard de Grijs
      Pages 91-94
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About this book

Remembrance of Things Past It scarcely seems credible that it was almost exactly thirty years ago that I ?rst met Duccio Macchetto at the ?rst meeting of the newly formed Science Working Group of what was then called the Space Telescope project. We were there in slightly d- ferent roles, Duccio as the project scientist for the Faint Object Camera and I as an interdisciplinary scientist. Henk van de Hulst was also there as the of?cial rep- sentative of ESO. The approval of the project was the end result of a great deal of lobbying and politicking both in the USA and Europe, the European contribution proving essential to the approval process in the USA. Those interested in the nit- gritty of the process should read Robert Smith’s outstanding history of the Hubble Space Telescope. We should have realized early on that we were in for a rough time. At that ?rst meeting of the Science Working Group I remember vividly NASA Headquarters telling us that the Space Telescope was a success-oriented programme that would cost M$ 680. Well, we could live with the cost-tag, but we should have had concerns about the expression “success-oriented”. This meant that everything should turn out exactly as planned, the project would be carried out within the projected time-scale and budget and the telescope would be launched in 1983. Well, the rest is history. We learned a lot of useful jargon along the way.

Editors and Affiliations

  • (STSCI), Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, U.S.A.

    F. Duccio Macchetto

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