UC Irvine UC Irvine Previously Published Works Title Astrophysics in 2000 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5272z5d3 Journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 113(787) ISSN 0004-6280 Authors Trimble, V Aschwanden, MJ Publication Date 2001-09-01 DOI 10.1086/322844 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 4.0 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 113:1025–1114, 2001 September ᭧ 2001. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Invited Review Astrophysics in 2000 Virginia Trimble Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 and Markus J. Aschwanden Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Department L9-41, Building 252, 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304;
[email protected] Received 2001 April 13; accepted 2001 April 13 ABSTRACT. It was a year in which some topics selected themselves as important through the sheer numbers of papers published. These include the connection(s) between galaxies with active central engines and galaxies with starbursts, the transition from asymptotic giant branch stars to white dwarfs, gamma-ray bursters, solar data from three major satellite missions, and the cosmological parameters, including dark matter and very large scale structure. Several sections are oriented around processes—accretion, collimation, mergers, and disruptions—shared by a number of kinds of stars and galaxies. And, of course, there are the usual frivolities of errors, omissions, exceptions, and inventories.