OPC Categories

A - COSMOLOGY

A1 Surveys of AGNs and high-z galaxies
A2 Identification studies of extragalactic surveys
A3 Large scale structure and evolution
A4 Distance scale
A5 Groups and clusters of galaxies
A6 Gravitational lensing
A7 Intervening absorption line systems
A8 High redshift galaxies (star formation and ISM)

B - GALAXIES AND GALACTIC NUCLEI

B1 Morphology and galactic structure
B2 Stellar populations: unresolved and resolved
B3 Chemical evolution
B4 Galaxy dynamics
B5 Peculiar/interacting galaxies
B6 Non-thermal processes in galactic nuclei (incl. QSRs, QSOs, blazars, Seyfert galaxies, BALs, radio galaxies, and LINERS)
B7 Thermal processes in galactic nuclei and starburst galaxies (incl. ultraluminous IR galaxies, outflows, emission lines, and spectral energy distributions)
B8 Central supermassive objects
B9 AGN host galaxies

C - INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM, STAR FORMATION and PLANETARY SYSTEMS

C1 Gas and dust, giant molecular clouds, cool and hot gas, diffuse and translucent clouds
C2 Chemical processes in the interstellar medium
C3 Star forming regions, globules, protostars, HII regions
C4 Pre-main-sequence stars (massive PMS stars, Herbig Ae/Be stars and T Tauri stars)
C5 Outflows, stellar jets, HH objects
C6 Main-sequence stars with circumstellar matter, early evolution
C7 Young binaries, brown dwarfs, exosolar planet searches
C8 Solar system (planets, comets, small bodies)

D - STELLAR EVOLUTION

D1 Main-sequence stars
D2 Post-main-sequence stars, giants, supergiants, AGB stars, post-AGB stars
D3 Pulsating stars and stellar activity
D4 Mass loss and winds
D5 Supernovae, pulsars
D6 Planetary nebulae, nova remnants and supernova remnants
D7 Pre-white dwarfs and white dwarfs, neutron stars
D8 Evolved binaries, black-hole candidates, novae, X-ray binaries, CVs
D9 Gamma-ray and X-ray bursters
D10 OB associations, open and globular clusters, extragalactic star clusters
D11 Individual stars in external galaxies, resolved stellar populations
D12 Distance Scale - stars

 


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