From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 02:35:52 MST
re: "Astronomy Reviews".
From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
>If you want to check you could poke around in the ADS search
>engine looking for reviews. Unfortunately Astronomers don't
>seem to do as much "review" production as medical types seem
>to, so its difficult for a non-astronomer to get a handle on it.
>I think there is an "Annual Review of Astronomy" however.
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. They're great.
Astronomers don't have time generally to read them all, but
we know they exist, and they are a great place to start.
http://astro.annualreviews.org/
The reviews are not free. Either your institute must have a site
license, or you can pay per article ($15.00) to download.
You can search too, but not all abstracts are online
http://astro.annualreviews.org/search.dtl
If someone wants to do this kind of 'search' for
galaxies going 'dark', I suggest to start with these reviews:
Chris Impey and Greg Bothun
LOW SURFACE BRIGHTNESS GALAXIES
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1997 , Vol. 35: 267-307. [Abstract]
[Full Text]
R. Sanders and Stacy McGaugh
Modified Newtonian Dynamics as an Alternative to Dark Matter
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys.; 10.1146/annurev.astro.40.060401.093923.
[Abstract]
Gibor Basri
OBSERVATIONS OF BROWN DWARFS
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 2000 , Vol. 38: 485-519. [Abstract]
[Full Text]
Bernard Carr
Baryonic Dark Matter
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1994 , Vol. 32: 531-590.
Jeremiah P Ostriker
Astronomical Tests of the Cold Dark Matter Scenario
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1993 , Vol. 31: 689-716.
V Trimble <------------- this should be excellent
Existence And Nature Of Dark Matter In The Universe
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1987 , Vol. 25: 425-472.
D. B. Sanders and I. F. Mirabel
LUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1996 , Vol. 34: 749-792. [Abstract]
[Full Text]
Yoshiaki Sofue and Vera Rubin
ROTATION CURVES OF SPIRAL GALAXIES
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 2001 , Vol. 39: 137-174. [Abstract]
[Full Text]
Fred Hamann and Gary Ferl
ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCES IN QUASISTELLAR OBJECTS: Star Formation and Galactic
Nuclear Evolution at High Redshifts
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1999 , Vol. 37: 487-531. [Abstract]
[Full Text]
Michael G. Hauser and Eli Dwek
THE COSMIC INFRARED BACKGROUND: Measurements and Implications
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 2001 , Vol. 39: 249-307. [Abstract]
[Full Text]
P. Teerikorpi
OBSERVATIONAL SELECTION BIAS AFFECTING THE DETERMINATION OF THE
EXTRAGALACTIC DISTANCE SCALE
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1997 , Vol. 35: 101-136. [Abstract]
[Full Text]
Mark Morris and Eugene Serabyn
THE GALACTIC CENTER ENVIRONMENT
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1996 , Vol. 34: 645-701. [Abstract]
[Full Text]
Olin J Eggen
Notes from a Life in the Dark
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1993 , Vol. 31: 1-11.
JJ Condon
Radio Emission from Normal Galaxies
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1992 , Vol. 30: 575-611.
R Giovanelli and MP Haynes
Redshift Surveys Of Galaxies
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1991 , Vol. 29: 499-541.
B Binggeli, A Sandage, and GA Tammann
The Luminosity Function Of Galaxies
Annu. Rev. Astron. Astophys. 1988 , Vol. 26: 509-560.
Another 'review' source:
Virginia Trimble, my prof and mentor 20 years ago at UC Irvine,
publishes in the first quarter of
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PASP/journal/
an "annual review" of astronomical discoveries during the previous year.
They are *full* reviews: typically 70 or 80 pages with 10 pages, double-col
of references in the back. She has written quite a lot regarding the
status of 'dark matter', in these reviews.
They are titled: "Astrophysics in 1997", "Astrophysics in 1998", etc.
This woman is brilliant. She's able to condense enormous quantities
of information, and put those together into a readable, smooth-flowing,
clever, interesting, and amusing text. You'd have to read one of these
to know what I mean.
(She even has a tongue-in-cheek: "Astrophysics in 2049":
Trimble, V.; Sciatti, H., The Observatory, Vol. 120, p. 7p-10p (2000))
She didn't write an "Astrophysics in 2000", though, and I'm hoping and
waiting for her "Astrophysics in 2001".
You also need an institute site licence to access the online articles.
In general, PASP articles are very well written, and they often
are written in a 'review' style. Some example topics:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PASP/journal/contents/v113n782.html
Amara
************************************************************************
Amara Graps, PhD | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik
Heidelberg Cosmic Dust Group | Saupfercheckweg 1
+49-6221-516-543 | 69117 Heidelberg, GERMANY
Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de * http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/dustgroup/~graps
************************************************************************
"We came whirling out of Nothingness scattering stars like dust." --Rumi
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 13:37:34 MST