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Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei: Past, Present and Future Research
Ford, Holland; Ferrarese, Laura
This review discusses the current status of supermassive black hole research, as seen from a purely observational standpoint. Since the early ‘90s, rapid technological advances, most notably the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the commissioning of the VLBA and improvements in near-infrared speckle imaging techniques, have not only given us i…
The Foreshock
Eastwood, J. P.; Lucek, E. A.; Narita, Y. +4 more
Quasi-perpendicular Shock Structure and Processes
Balogh, A.; Thomsen, M. F.; Lembège, B. +11 more
Quasi-parallel Shock Structure and Processes
Balogh, A.; Thomsen, M. F.; Lembège, B. +11 more
The Ice Survey Opportunity of ISO
Dartois, Emmanuel
The instruments on board the Infrared Space Observatory have for the first time allowed a complete low (PHOT, CVF) to medium resolution (SWS) spectroscopic harvest, from 2.5 to 45 µm, of interstellar dust. Amongst the detected solids present in starless molecular clouds surrounding recently born stellar and still embedded objects or products…
The Magnetosheath
Sahraoui, F.; Lucek, E. A.; Walker, S. N. +5 more
Crystalline Silicates
Kemper, Ciska; Molster, Frank
One of the big surprises of the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) has been discovery of crystalline silicates outside our own Solar system. It was generally assumed before that all cosmic silicates in space were of amorphous structure. Thanks to ISO we know now that crystalline silicates are ubiquitous in the Galaxy (except for the diffuse ISM) and…
Magnetopause and Boundary Layer
Lundin, R.; Vaivads, A.; Owen, C. J. +6 more
Molecular Hydrogen
Maiolino, Roberto; Habart, Emilie; Walmsley, Malcolm +5 more
Observations of H2 line emission in galactic and extragalactic environments obtained with the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) are reviewed. The diagnostic capability of H2 observations is illustrated. We discuss what one has learned about such diverse astrophysical sources as photon-dominated regions, shocks, young stellar o…
Deep Impact: Working Properties for the Target Nucleus Comet 9P/Tempel 1
Fernández, Yanga R.; A'Hearn, Michael F.; Pittichová, Jana +13 more
In 1998, Comet 9P/Tempel 1 was chosen as the target of the Deep Impact mission (A’Hearn, M. F., Belton, M. J. S., and Delamere, A., Space Sci. Rev., 2005) even though very little was known about its physical properties. Efforts were immediately begun to improve this situation by the Deep Impact Science Team leading to the founding of a worldwide o…