Exploring the Universe

Exploring the Universe
ISBN-10
9814492361
ISBN-13
9789814492362
Series
Exploring the Universe
Category
Science
Pages
396
Language
English
Published
2000-09-27
Publisher
World Scientific
Authors
H Gursky, R Ruffini, L Stella

Description

This volume is dedicated to Riccardo Giacconi for his sixty-fifth birthday, on the occasion of his being awarded a “Laurea Honoris Causa” in physics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. A meeting was held in his honor, and presentations were given that reflected the state-of-the-art of research on subjects related to Giacconi's scientific interests and achievements through the decades. This volume is based upon the papers presented at that meeting. It provides a tribute to Riccardo Giacconi for his outstanding contributions towards opening up the entire field of high energy astrophysics. Contents:X-Ray Astronomy: The First Decade (H Gursky)X-Ray Astronomy from Uhuru to Einstein (W H Tucker & H Tananbaum)Historical Development of X-Ray Optics for Astronomy (L P van Speybroeck)The Divergent Evolution of the X-Ray Telescope (P Gorenstein)From Starfish to EXOSAT — My Various Interactions with Riccardo Giacconi (K A Pounds)X-Ray Astronomical Spectroscopy (S Holt)The X-Ray Background and the ROSAT Deep Surveys (G Hasinger & G Zamorani)Musings About X-Ray Luminosity Functions and Source Counts (M Schmidt)The Brightest Extragalactic Radio Sources in the Sky as Observed at Radio, HST and X-Ray Wavelengths (M S Longair)Clusters of Galaxies in X-Rays (A Cavaliere)Hot Gas and Dark Matter in Galaxies and Clusters (W Forman & C Jones)Clusters of Galaxies: A Commentary (G Chincarini)Evolution of the Abundance of X-Ray Galaxy Clusters Out to z ~ 1 (P Rosati)Life and Times of the X-Ray Gas in Elliptical Galacies (A Renzini)The Beginnings of Stellar X-Ray Astronomy (R Rosner)Stellar Cornal Structures (S Serio)Understanding X-Ray Stars: The Discovery of Binary X-Ray Sources (E J Schreier & H Tananbaum)X-Ray Emission from Neutron Stars — Some Personal Reflections and Recent Developments (J Trümper)X-Ray Imaging of Crowded Fields and Grain Scattered Halos (G W Clark & J W Woo)Iron Kα-Line Emission from Neural Interstellar Gas (R Sunyaev)General Relativity with Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from Low Mass X-Ray Binaries (L Stella)Lessons from X-Ray Astronomy Applied to HST (E J Schreier & R Doxsey)HST Observations of Extragalactic Optical Jets (F D Macchetto)High Redshift Radio Galaxies: From HST to VLT — A Proto-Cluster at z=2.2? (G Miley et al.)Probing the Cosmic “Dark Age” with the VLT (M J Rees)On the Critical Mass (R Ruffini) Readership: Astrophysicists. Keywords:Universe;Astronomy;Astrophysics

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