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Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology

Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference, Held in Garching, Germany, 6-10 August 2001

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  1. Marat Gilfanov
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  2. Rashid Sunyeav
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  3. Eugene Churazov
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Table of contents (95 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Tales within Tales and Cutoffs within Cutoffs: What Sets the Mass Scale for Galaxies?

    • Paul L. Schechter
    Pages 3-11

  3. Galaxy Clusters: Cosmic High-Energy Laboratories to Study the Structure of Our Universe

    • Hans Böhringer
    Pages 12-23

  4. Cooling Flows in Clusters of Galaxies

    • Andrew C. Fabian
    Pages 24-36

  5. Bobble-Heated Cooling Flows

    • Eugene Churazov, Hans Böhringer, Marcus Brüggen, William Forman, Christine Jones, Christian Kaiser et al.
    Pages 37-43

  6. Cooling and Heating the ICM with High-Resolution Simulations

    • Stefano Borgani, Fabio Govemato
    Pages 44-50

  7. Chandra Observations of the Components of Clusters, Groups, and Galaxies and Their Interactions

    • William Forman, Christine Jones, Maxim Markevitch, Alexey Vikhlinin, Eugene Churazov
    Pages 51-62

  8. XMM-Newton Observation of M87 and Its X-Ray Halo

    • Kyoko Matsushita, Alexis Finoguenov, Hans Böhringer
    Pages 63-68

  9. First Results from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey

    • Douglas Clowe, Luc Simard
    Pages 69-74

  10. A 400 Square Degrees Serendipitous ROSAT PSPC Cluster Survey.

    • Rodion Burenin, Alexey Vikhlinin, Mikhail Pavlinsky, Nail Sakhibullin, Ilfan Bikmaev, Zeki Aslan et al.
    Pages 75-77

  11. Magnetic Fields in Clusters of Galaxies

    • Federica Govoni, Luigina Feretti, Gabriele Giovannini, Daniele Dallacasa, Gregory B. Taylor
    Pages 78-80

  12. X-Ray Statistical Properties of the Central Cool Component in Clusters of Galaxies

    • Yasushi Ikebe
    Pages 81-83

  13. Constraining Cosmological Models with the Brightest Galaxy Clusters in the X-Ray Sky

    • Thomas H. Reiprich, Hans Böhringer
    Pages 84-93

  14. Far-Infrared and Submillimetre Lighthouses

    • Malcolm Longair, Andrew Blain
    Pages 97-107

  15. The Most Luminous Galaxies

    • I. Félix Mirabel
    Pages 108-118

  16. Resolving the Cosmic Infrared Background with ISOCAM

    • Catherine Cesarsky, David Elbaz, Herve Aussel, Dario Fadda, Alberto Franceschini, Hector Flores et al.
    Pages 119-122

  17. The Environment of Optically Very Luminous Galaxies

    • Alberto Cappi, Christophe Benoist, Luiz N. da Costa, Sophie Maurogordato
    Pages 123-124

  18. What Triggers Radio Galaxies?

    • Maria José Cruz, Katherine M. Blundell
    Pages 125-127

  19. Evolution and Clustering of Giant Elliptical Galaxies

    • Steven Phillipps, Nathan Horleston
    Pages 128-134

  20. Novel Ways to Probe the Universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts and Quasars

    • Abraham Loeb
    Pages 137-156
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About this book

The book reviews the present status of understanding the nature of the most luminous objects in the Universe, connected with supermassive black holes and supermassive stars, clusters of galaxies and ultraluminous galaxies, sources of gamma-ray bursts and relativistic jets. Leading experts give overviews of essential physical mechanisms involved, discuss formation and evolution of these objects as well as prospects for their use in cosmology, as probes of the intergalactic medium at high redshifts and as a tool to study the end of dark ages. The theoretical models are complemented by new exciting results from orbital and ground-based observatories such as Chandra, XMM-Newton, HST, SDSS, VLT, Keck, and many others.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference, Held in Garching, Germany, 6-10 August 2001

  • Editors: Marat Gilfanov, Rashid Sunyeav, Eugene Churazov

  • Series Title: ESO Astrophysics Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b88624

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-43769-7Published: 06 August 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07846-0Published: 07 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-48014-3Published: 11 February 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1431-2433

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-6143

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 618

  • Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

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