X-Ray Astronomy with the Einstein Satellite

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Non-Degenerate Stellar X-ray Sources and Stellar Coronae

   1. The Einstein/CFA Stellar Survey: Overview of the Data and Interpretation of Results

      • G. S. Vaiana

      Pages 1-18

   2. Theory of Stellar Coronae: An Interpretation of X-Ray Emission From Non-Degenerate Stellar Sources

      • Jeffrey L. Linsky

      Pages 19-38

3. Supernova Remnants

   1. X-Ray Imaging: Supernova Remnants

      • David J. Helfand

      Pages 39-49

   2. X-Ray Spectra of Supernova Remnants

      • Barham W. Smith

      Pages 51-60

4. Bursters, Globular Clusters and galactic X-ray Sources

   1. Observations of X-Ray Bursts by the “Hakucho” Satellite

      • Minoru Oda

      Pages 61-78

   2. X-Ray Sources in Globular Clusters

      • Jonathan E. Grindlay

      Pages 79-109

   3. Models for Galactic X-Ray Sources

      • Paul C. Joss

      Pages 111-122

   4. Binary X-Ray Pulsars

      • Saul Rappaport, Paul C. Joss

      Pages 123-152

5. Normal Galaxies

   1. X-Ray Emission from Normal Galaxies

      • L. Van Speybroeck, J. Bechtold

      Pages 153-172

6. Active Galaxies and QSO’s (I)

   1. Spectroscopy of Compact Extragalactic X-Ray Sources

      • Stephen S. Holt

      Pages 173-185

7. Clusters of Galaxies

   1. Einstein Imaging Observations of Clusters of Galaxies

      • W. Forman, J. Bechtold, W. Blair, C. Jones

      Pages 187-213

   2. X-Ray Spectra of Clusters of Galaxies

      • Claude R. Canizares

      Pages 215-226

   3. Theoretical Models of X-Ray Emission from Rich Clusters of Galaxies

      • Lennox L. Cowie

      Pages 227-240

   4. Extragalactic Radio Sources and X-Ray Astronomy

      • M. S. Longair

      Pages 241-259

8. Active Galaxies and QSO’ (II)

   1. X-Ray Imaging Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars

      • J. Patrick Henry

      Pages 261-278

   2. Optical Counts and Space Distribution of Quasars

      • Maarten Schmidt

      Pages 279-280

9. Surverys and Cosmology

   1. The Number-Intensity Distribution for Extragalactic X-Ray Sources

      • S. S. Murray

      Pages 281-295

   2. X-Ray Observations and the Cosmic Distance Scale

      • Paul E. Boynton

      Pages 297-309

   3. Galaxy Formation in a Violent Universe

      • Jeremiah P. Ostriker

      Pages 311-323

The meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society, held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 28- 30, 1980, marks the coming of age of X-ray astronomy. In the 18 years since the discovery of the first extrasolar X-ray source, Sco X-l, the field has experienced an extremely rapid instrumentation development culminating with the launch on November 13, 1978 of the Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2) which first introduced the use of high resolution imaging telescopes to the study of galactic and extragalactic X-ray sources. The Einstein Observatory instruments can detect sources as faint as 10-7 Sco X-lor about 17 magnitudes fainter. The technological developments in the field have been paralleled by a host of new discoveries: in the early 1960's the detection of 9 "X-ray stars", objects 10 times more luminous in X-rays than the Sun and among the brightest stellar objects at all wavelengths; in the late 1960's and early 1970's the discovery of the natureof such systems which were identified as collapsed stars (neutron stars and black holes) in mass exchange binary systems, and the detection of the first few extragalactic sources.

• Corona
• astronomy
• astrophysics
• cosmology
• galaxy
• quasar

• Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA

  Riccardo Giacconi

Riccardo Giacconi, Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Nobel Laureate in Physics in 2002 "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"

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