ORGANIZATIONS AND STRATEGIES IN ASTRONOMY 7
ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 343
EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W.B. BURTON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. (
[email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands (
[email protected]) MEMBERS F. BERTOLA, University of Padua, Italy; J.P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA; C.J. CESARSKY, European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany; P. EHRENFREUND, Leiden University, The Netherlands; O. ENGVOLD, University of Oslo, Norway; A. HECK, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France; E.P.J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; V.M. KASPI, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; J.M.E. KUIJPERS, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; H. VAN DER LAAN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; P.G. MURDIN, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK; F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy; V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India; B.V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia; R.A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
ORGANIZATIONS AND STRATEGIES IN ASTRONOMY VOLUME 7
Edited by ANDRÉ HECK Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France
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