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Exploring the universe : a festschrift in honor of Riccardo Giacconi /
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-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. :
World Scientific,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Advanced series in astrophysics and cosmology ;
v. 13. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.