Research Catalog

Title

Radio astronomy at the fringe : proceedings of a conference in honor of Kenneth I. Kellermann on the occasion of his 65th birthday held in Green Bank, West Virginia, USA, 10-12 October 2002 / edited by J.A. Zensus, M.H. Cohen, E. Ros.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

• Cohen, Marshall H. (Marshall Harris), 1926-
• Ros, E. (Eduardo)
• Zensus, J. Anton.

Description

xvi, 352 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 300

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 300.

Subjects

• Very long baseline interferometry > Congresses
• Radio astronomy > Congresses
• Radio sources (Astronomy)
• Kellermann, Kenneth I., 1937-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography (p. 309-342) and indexes.

Contents

A Review of the History of VLBI / B. G. Clark -- Very Long Baseline Interferometry in the USSR / L. I. Matveyenko -- Early Work in Imaging / J. A. Hogbom -- CTD 93 - Spanning the Years / D. B. Shaffer -- The 2 cm VLBA Survey / J. A. Zensus, E. Ros, M. Kadler, K. I. Kellerman, M. L. Lister, D. C. Homan, M. H. Cohen and R. C. Vermeulen -- Jet Collimation: 3C 279 Caught in the Act / D. C. Homan -- Motion Statistics in the CJ Survey - The Status in October 2002 / R. C. Vermeulen, S. Britzen, G. B. Taylor, T. J. Pearson, A. C. S. Readhead, P. N. Wilkinson and I. W. A. Browne -- Studying Circular Polarization with the VBLA / D. C. Homan and J. F. C. Wardle -- What We've Learned from VSOP Polarization Observations / D. C. Gabuzda -- Compact Structures in Flat-Spectrum Extragalactic Radio Sources / Y. Y. Kovalev -- Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum Radio Sources / M. L. Lister -- Radio Source Evolution on Small Scales / C. Fanti and R. Fanti -- VLBI Properties of Gamma-Ray Blazars / S. G. Jorstad and A. P. Marscher -- VLBI Imaging of Seyfert Galaxies / J. S. Ulvestad -- Microquasars / V. Dhawan -- 3C 84 / R. C. Walker -- Ionised, Atomic, and Molecular Gas around the Twin Radio Jets of NGC 1052 / R. C. Vermeulen, E. Ros, J. A. Zensus, K. I. Kellerman, M. H. Cohen and H. J. van Langevelde -- Sagittarius A* as an AGN / W. M. Goss -- Relativistic jets in Blazars: Where the Action Is / A. P. Marscher -- Thermal Electrons in the Helical Magnetic Field of 3C 273 / M. Inoue, K. Asada and Y. Uchida -- Magnetic Field Structures in Parsec Scale Jets: Oblique Shocks / H. D. Aller, M. F. Aller and P. A. Hughes -- What Can We Learn about Extragalactic Radio Jets from X-Ray Data? / D. E. Harris -- Survey of Variability / M. F. Aller, H. D. Aller and P. A. Hughes -- Variability and Brightness Temperature / E. Valtaoja, T. Savolainen, K. Wiik and A. Lahteenmaki -- Variability and Velocity of Superluminal Sources / M. H. Cohen, M. A. Russo, D. C. Homan, K. I. Kellerman, M. L. Lister, R. C. Vermeulen, E. Ros and J. A. Zensus -- Variability, Brightness Temperature, Superluminal Motion, Doppler Boosting, and Related Issues / K. I. Kellermann -- Space VLBI and High Brightness Temperature Observations / H. Hirabayashi -- Interstellar Scintillation and Radio Intra-Day Variability / D. L. Jauncey, H. E. Bignall, J. E. J. Lovell, L. Kedziora-Chudczer, A. K. Tzioumis, J.-P. Macquart and B. J. Rickett -- Seeing the Cores of Active Galaxies in the Sharpest Detail / L. Kedziora-Chudczer, B. J. Rickett, H. E. Bignall, D. L. Jauncey, J. E. J. Lovell, A. K. Tzioumis and J.-P. Macquart -- The Energetics and Apparent Superluminal Motions of Extragalactic Radio Sources / G. Burbidge -- The KelPau Limit and Sources of Cosmic Rays / N. S. Kardashev -- Self-Stark Limit on Brightness Temperature in Cosmic Masers / V. I. Slysh -- The Space Distribution and Evolution of Radio Sources / J. J. Condon -- Cosmology from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey / J. V. Wall and C. A. Blake -- The Radio and Optical Morphologies of Micro-Jansky Radio Sources / E. B. Fomalont, K. I. Kellermann, L. L. Cowie, A. J. Berger, P. Capak, R. B. Partridge and R. A. Windhorst -- High-Redshift Radio-Loud QSOs: Unification and the Space Density Turnover / C. A. Jackson, J. V. Wall P. A. Shaver, K. I. Kellermann and I. M. Hook -- Observations at the Edge / P. A. Shaver -- Radio Galaxies as Probes of Distant Proto-clusters / G. Miley -- Milliarcsecond Radio Structures in AGN as Cosmological Probes / L. I. Gurvits -- Radio Galaxies and the Magnetization of the IGM / Gopal-Krishna / P. J. Wiita -- Astronomy at the Fringe / R. D. Ekers.

ISBN

1583811478

LCCN

2003107126

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries