as tr o - ph / 9 60 81 54 23 A ug 1 99 6 Liquid Mirror Telescopes : A progress report

as tr o - ph / 9 70 60 98 10 J un 1 99 7 1 Liquid Mirror Telescopes : A Review

I review the present status of liquid mirror telescopes. In a nutshell: LMTs do work and several have been built and used. Extensive interferometric tests of liquid mirrors (the largest one having a diameter of 2.5 meters ) show diffraction limited performance. A large quantity of astronomical data have been taken at the NASA 3-m LMT and are currently being analyzed. Finally, I shall address th...

as tr o - ph / 9 80 81 94 19 A ug 1 99 8 Magnetic Field Effects on the Structure of Radiatively

as tr o - ph / 9 90 12 55 19 J an 1 99 9 1 Floating Mirrors

We discuss a new technology that promises large inexpensive mirrors. We argue that it should be possible to tilt a rotating viscous liquid by perhaps as much as a few tens of degrees. The tilted liquid parabolic surface is used as the support for a thin reflecting metallic film. We demonstrate two critical steps: that a viscous liquid mirror can be tilted and that an optical quality metallic fi...

ar X iv : h ep - l at / 9 60 81 30 v 1 2 3 A ug 1 99 6 1 Pomerons and Lattices : a Progress Report

We report on some attempts to use lattice QCD to investigate topics in strong interaction phenomenology which are usually interpreted in terms of soft Pomeron exchange.

as tr o - ph / 9 60 80 03 1 A ug 1 99 6 UNDERSTANDING THE ELUSIVE DWARF CARBON STAR

Most stars in our Galaxy with photospheric C/O > 1 (carbon stars) are not giants but dwarfs. The newly-recognized class of dwarf carbon stars joins the growing family of stars with peculiar abundances that are now recognized as products of mass-transfer binary (MTB) evolution. The dozen examples now known span a wide range of evolutionary histories, ages, and abundances. These stars can already...