Astrophysics and Space Science Vol. 282, No. 1, 2002, pp. 1-359

Special Issue:

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE: SKY SURVEYS, SPACE EXPLORATION, AND SPACE

TECHNOLOGIES

Proceedings of the Tenth United Nations / European Space Agency Workshop, Held in Reduit, Mauritius, 25-29 June 2001

Guest Editors:

HANS J. HAUBOLD and S.D.D.V. RUGHOOPUTH

Preface

Logo of the UN/ESA Workshops on Basic Space Science

Address List of Workshop Participants

Group Photo of Workshop Participants

1. N. UDAYA SHANKAR, K. GOLAP, S. SACHDEV, R. DODSON, M. KATWAROO and

Ch.V. SASTRY / Imaging With the Mauritius Radio Telescope: Challenges and Results

2. V.N. PANDEY, R. SOMANNAH and N.UDAYA SHANKAR / Full Resolution Images from the Mauritius Radio Telescope

3. N. OOZEER and N. UDAYA SHANKAR / Limitations of the Tangent Plane

Approximation for Wide-Field Imaging Using the Mauritius Radio Telescope

4. R. SOMANAH and N.UDAYA SHANKAR / Study of Extended Radio Galaxies at 151.6 MHz Using the Mauritius Radio Telescope

5. N.H. ISSUR / Low Frequency Observations of Pulsars at MRT: Results on a Few 'Normal' Pulsars and a 'Millisecond' Pulsar

6. N.H. ISSUR / The Pulsar Observing System and Data Analysis Procedure Used at MRT

7. U. CHUMMUM and G.K. BEEHARRY / A New Tracking System for the MRT

8. P. VIVEKANANDA RAO and P. RADHIKA / Long-Term Study of the Starspot Activity

on the Eclipsing Short-Period RS Canum Venaticorum Star UV Piscium

9. S. GODERYA / Doing Research on Eclipsing Binary Stars with Small Telescopes and PC Computers

10. L.W. KEBEDE / Relativistic Plasma Diffusion: A Possible Source for Neutron Star Magnetic Fields

11. E. MASSARO, R. NESCI and G. TOSTI / Optical Monitoring of Bright Blazars with Automatic Telescopes

12. R.K. MANCHANDA / Spectral Measurements of Galactic and Extragalactic Sources in the Hard X-ray Region of 20-200 keV Using Balloon Borne Telescope

13. R. SOMANAH, S.D.D.V. RUGHOOPUTH and H.C.S. RUGHOOPUTH/ Identification

and Classification of Galaxies Using a Biologically-Inspired Neural Network

14. V. DOMINGO / SOHO, YOHKOH, ULYSSES and TRACE: The Four Solar Missions in

Perspective, and Available Resources

15. K. WILHELM, I.E. DAMMASCH and D.M. HASSLER / Transition Region and Coronal

Plasmas: Instrumentation and Spectral Analysis

16. D. NANDY / Constraints on the Solar Internal Magnetic Field from a Buoyancy Driven Solar Dynamo

17. A.V. PODLAZOV and A.R. OSOKIN / Self-Organized Criticality Model of Solar Plasma Eruption Processes

18. D.P. SMITS / Observations of the 21 June 2001 Total Solar Eclipse

19. V. POPA, for the NOTTE Collaboration / Limits on Radiative Decays of Solar Neutrinos from Measurements During a Total Solar Eclipse

20. X.-S. YANG and Q.-S. WANG / Gravity Anomaly During the Mohe Total Solar Eclipse and New Constraint on Gravitational Shielding Parameter

21. R. VIRASAMI, K. GOLAP and S.D.D.V. RUGHOOPUTH / 1D Solar Image Synthesis:

A Multifrequency Analysis

22. A.M. MATHAI and H.J. HAUBOLD / Review of Mathematical Techniques Applicable in Astrophysical Reaction Rate Theory

23. R.K. SAXENA, A.M. MATHAI and H.J. HAUBOLD / On Fractional Kinetic Equations

24. M. MELEK / The Effect of Spin-Gravity Interaction on the Wave Lengths of Photons Moving in the Earth's Gravitational Field

25. G. EICHHORN, A. ACCOMAZZI, C.S. GRANT, M.J. KURTZ and S.S. MURRAY /

The NASA Astrophysics Data System: Free Access to the Astronomical Literature On-line and Through Email

26. H.J. HAUBOLD and W. WAMSTEKER / Report on the Tenth UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science: Exploring the Universe - Sky Surveys, Space Exploration, and Space Technologies

Author Index