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High-Velocity Clouds, Hardback Book

High-Velocity Clouds Hardback

Edited by Hugo van Woerden, Bart Wakker, Ulrich Schwarz, Klaas de Boer

Part of the Astrophysics and Space Science Library series

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On the occasion of the retirement of Ulrich Schwarz, a symposium was held in Groningen in May of 1996, celebrating his contributions to the study of the int- stellar medium, including his work on the high-velocity clouds.

The coming together of many specialists in the latter ?eld prompted the idea of compiling a book c- taining their contributions, and summarizing the status of our understanding of the high-velocity cloud phenomenon.

This seemed especially worthwhile at the time, since many exciting developments were taking place.

After the discovery of some H i clouds with high velocities, about 40 years ago, the subject had been dominated by 21-cm observations of H i emission.

Starting in the mid-1980s much progress was being made because of the availability of new instruments, such as large ground-based optical telescopes and UV observatories in space.

The connections between the work on high-velocity clouds and other studies of the properties of the (hot) interstellar medium also became clearer.

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