H. O. RUCKER – S. J. BAUER – A. Lecacheux (Eds.)
Planetary Radio Emissions IV
Helmut Rucker
ist Professor am Institut für Weltraumforschung der ÖAW und der Universität Graz
Siegfried Bauer
ist Professor der Meteorologie und Geophysik an der Universität Graz
A. Lecacheux
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… When we organized the first International Workshop on Planetary Radio Emissions in the
summer of 1984, following the 25th COSPAR meeting held at Graz, we hardly expected
this workshop to become somewhat of a tradition. The enthusiastic acceptance by the
relatively small but highly active community led us to hold the second one in September
1987 and the third workshop in 1991. The intimate size of the workshop with enough
time for discussions and social get-togethers formed a close bond among the members of
this community over the years.
There has been a continuing growth in subjects discussed at these workshops. Whereas
the first one concentrated on the first radio planet, Jupiter, it also dealt with Earth and
initial results of Saturn. By the second and third workshop Uranus and Neptune had
joined the radio planets in our solar system as the results of the Voyager 2 fly-by of these
planets. The most recent fourth workshop held in September 1996 expanded the themes
concerned with all five radio planets by adding new results from the Galileo und Ulysses
missions.
The proceedings of these workshops appeared in bookform under the title Planetary Radio
Emissions; the present one is the forth volume (PRE IV) appearing in the "Silver Series"
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Like the previous three volumes the present
one is also expected to become a "standard" in this discipline, containing the most-up-
to-date state of knowledge in theory and observation of planetary radio emissions.
We hope that this volume, as the previous ones, will become the compendium in this field
until new observations and ideas might urge us to convene another Graz-Workshop.
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