GCNEWS
A Newsletter for Galactic Center Research
This Volume was edited by Sera Markoff, Loránt Sjouwerman, Joseph Lazio, Cornelia Lang, Rainer Schödel & Robin Herrnstein
email: gcnews@aoc.nrao.edu
GCNEWS
The intention of this book is to provide the reader with a concise summary of some central aspects of the rapidly developing field of Galactic Center research. It provides a review of a selection of fundamental instrumental techniques, observational findings, and astrophysical results that are relevant for the Galactic Center. Overall, the book concentrates on aspects that deal with the nuclear stellar cluster in the central parsec and the compact radio source Sagittarius A* at its center rather than the more extended components and large scale phenomena. For further details the reader is referred to the actual scientific articles and reviews in the corresponding sections.
Most prominently, the book highlights observational techniques and especially image processing aspects. We have also put a high weight on a detailed presentation of the most recent work carried out in the near-infrared wavelength regime. All of these aspects had not yet been discussed in a unified manner in any available reference. A list of abbreviations, a number of useful quantities, a bibliography comprising of more than 400 publications up to the editorial deadline in July 2004, and maps of the Galactic Center stellar cluster ``for daily use'' are included in this book.
Fur further information, please see http://www.ph1.uni-koeln.de/~gcbook