How does the Galaxy work?: A Galactic Tertulia with Don Cox and Ron Reynolds: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, cartea 315

The Milky Way: Four Centuries of Discovery of the Galaxy.- Hi Clouds Beyond the Galactic Disk.- The Wham Northern Sky Survey and the Nature of the Warm Ionized Medium in the Galaxy.- The Structure of Galactic Hydrogen on the Largest Scales.- The Bu-Fcrao Galactic Ring Survey.- The View of the Interstellar Medium with the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey.- Dark Hydrogen in the Galactic Plane.- Diffuse Infrared Excess Features in the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey.- The Oxygen Abundance in Our Galaxy.- Ionization of the Galactic Halo.- Diffuse Ionized Gas and the Disk-Halo Interaction in Spiral Galaxies.- Are All the DIGs the Same?.- Radio Halos in Star Forming Galaxies.- Brackett-? Line Survey of the Ionized Hydrogen in the Galactic Plane.- Leaky H II Regions and Heliumionization in the Reynolds Layer.- Reynolds Layers in Nearby Galaxies: The Face-On View.- Volume Filling Factors of the Dig.- Latest Results of the Sethi Survey at Arecibo.- Job Accomplished? The Escape of Ionizing Radiation from the Disks of Spiral Galaxies.- Modeling the Diffuse Ionized Gas with Cloudy.- Diffuse Ionized Medium Panel Discussion.- Absorption Line Studies in the Halo.- Dynamical Evolution of High Velocity Clouds in the Galactic Halo.- Pulsar Bow Shocks as Probes of Warm Neutral Gas.- Highly Ionized HVCs Towards Pks 2155–304: Galactic or Extragalactic?.- Towards an Understanding of the Dynamics of the Milky Way.- Fuse Observations of Ovi Emission from the Galactic Fountain.- Pattern Speeds of Three Spirals Using Co and the Tremaine-Weinberg Method.- Gas Infall Onto the Superthin Ic 2233.- High-Velocity Gas Observed Towards the Shajn 147 Supernova Remnant.- Hot Gas in the Galaxy.- Bubbles and Superbubbles.- The Chandra View of M101: What Can We Learn About the Milky Way?.- Fuse Observationsof the Vela Supernova Remnant.- Circumstellar Interaction in Young Radio Supernovae.- Chandra Archive of Nearby Galaxies. I. Normal Galaxies.- Hi Shells in the 2nd Galactic Quadrant.- Key Science Programs for the Spear Mission.- Chandra Archive of Nearby Galaxies. II. Galaxies with Nuclear Activity.- Heating and Cooling in the ISM.- The Galactic Centre and Its Black Hole.- Stellar Metallicities and the Formation of the Galactic Bulge.- The Galactic Bar.- Stellar Distribution in the Galactic Disk from NIR Color-Magnitude Diagrams.- Stellar Clusters in the Nucleus of Galaxie.- Massive Young Clusters.- Deep Multicolor NIR Surver of the Galactic Plane.- Tracing the History of the Galaxy with Globular Clusters.- Tidal Debris in the Galactic Halo.- Star Formation in High-Redshift ISM.- Gas Inflow in Spiral Galaxies from Kiloparsec to Parsec Scale.- Open Clusters as Tracers of the Cygnus ARM.- Triaxial Bulge and In-Plane Bar of the Milky Way.- Tidal Shocks on Globular Clusters.- Evolution of Globular Cluster Populations in Compact Galaxy Groups.- Near IR Color-Magnitude Diagrams of Bulge Globular Clusters.- Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way and Other Spiral Galaxies.- The Origin of Galactic Magnetic Fields.- Magnetic Turbulence in the WIM.- Magnetic Fields and Spiral Structure.- Calculations of the Dynamo Coefficients in Galactic Magnetic Fields with Shear.- Galactic Magnetic Fields, from Radio Polarimetry of the WIM.- Radio Polarimetry in the Sothern Galactic Plane Survey.- The Truncation of the Stellar Disk of the Milky Way: A Magnetic Effect?.- The Parker Instability.- 3D MHD Modeling of the Galaxy.- The Frequency Evolution of Interstellar Pulse Broadening from Radio Pulsars.- 3D HD and MHD Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of the Global and Local ISM.- The Turbulent Interstellar Medium: Insights and Questions from Numerical Models.- Hi: Temperatures, Magnetism, Turbulence, Morphology.- Cosmic Rays and ? Rays in the Galaxy.- Probing the Disk-Halo Connection Through the Local Interstellar Chimney.- The Spear (Spectroscopy of Emission from Astrophysical Radiation) Mission.- Dense Gas Contours Surrounding the Local Cavity: Comparison with the Soft X-Ray Background Emission Map.- Fuse Observations of the Hot Post-AGB Star ZNG 1 in the Globular Cluster M5.- 3D Simulations of the Local Bubble: How Much Ovi Can We Expect?.- XMM-Newton Observations of the Local Bubble and the Galactic Halo.- The Temperature of Massive Stars.- Fuse Survey Of The Local Interstellar Medium.- Diffuse Ovi Emission Towards the Loop I Superbubble.- The Local Bubble: Where is the ?300,000 K Gas?.- Is the Local Bubble Dead?.- Closing Remarks.