Exploring the universe a festschrift in honor of Riccardo Giacconi
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| Sprache: | English |
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World Scientific
c2000
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| Schriftenreihe: | Advanced series in astrophysics and cosmology
v. 13 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references Introduction -- 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 galaxies / A. Renzini -- The beginnings of stellar x-ray astronomy / R. Rosner -- Stellar coronal 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. Tramper -- X-ray imaging of crowded fields and grain scattered halos / G. W. Clark, J. W. Woo -- Iron Ka-line emission from neutral 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, L. Pentericci, H. Rottgering -- Probing the cosmic "dark age" with the VLT / M. J. Rees -- On the critical mass / R. Ruffin |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 383 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9789810244231 9789812792174 9810244231 9812792171 |