Research Catalog

Title

Astronomy, cosmology and fundamental physics : proceedings of the ESO/CERN/ESA Symposium held in Garching, Germany, 4-7 March 2002 / P.A. Shaver, L. DiLella, A. Giménez (eds.).

Author

ESO/CERN/ESA Symposium (2002 : Garching bei München, Germany)

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2003.

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Additional Authors

• Shaver, P. A. (Peter Albert), 1943-
• DiLella, L. (Luigi)
• Giménez, Alvaro.

Description

xxi, 501 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

ESO astrophysics symposia

Uniform Title

ESO astrophysics symposia.

Subject

• Astronomy > Congresses
• Cosmology > Congresses
• Nuclear physics > Congresses
• Particles (Nuclear physics) > Congresses
• Astronomie > Congrès
• Cosmologie > Congrès
• Physique nucléaire > Congrès
• Particules (Physique nucléaire) > Congrès
• Astronomy
• Cosmology
• Nuclear physics
• Particles (Nuclear physics)
• Astrophysik
• Kosmologie

Genre/Form

• Congresses.
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Garching (München, 2002)
• Kongress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations / S. Masi, P. A. R. Ade, P. de Bernardis, J. J. Bock, J. R. Bond, J. Borrill, A. Boscaleri, K. Coble, C. R. Contaldi, B. P. Crill, G. De Troia, P. Ferreira, K. Ganga, M. Giacometti, E. Hivon, V. V. Histov, A. Iacoangeli, A. H. Jafee, W. C. Jones, A. E. Lange, L. Martinis, P. Mason, P. D. Mauskopf, A. Melchiorri, T. Montroy, F. Nati, P. Natoli, C. B. Netterfield, E. Pascale, F. Piacentini, D. Pogosyan, G. Polenta, F. Pongetti, S. Prunet, G. Romeo, J. E. Ruhl and F. Scaramuzzi -- Evidence for an Accelerating Universe from Type Ia Supernovae / B. Leibundgut -- Cosmological Weak Lensing / Y. Mellier, L. van Waerbeke, F. Bernardeau and I. Tereno -- Constraining Cosmological Parameters with Observations of Galaxy Clusters / H. Bohringer, P. Schuecker, L. Guzzo and C. A. Collins -- First Light and the Reionization of the Universe / P. Madau -- State of the Universe: Cosmological Parameters 2002 / L. M. Krauss -- Cosmological Constant Problems and Their Solutions / A. Vilenkin -- Searches for Dark Matter / C. Tao -- Neutrino Masses and Oscillations / P. Hernandez -- Standard Model of Particle Physics: Status and Low-Energy Tests / A. Pich -- High-Energy Tests of the Standard Model and Beyond / F. Gianotti -- Astroparticle Physics with the L3 + C Detector / P. Le Coultre / L3 Collaboration -- Beyond the Standard Model / J. Ellis -- Alpha: A Constant That Is Not a Constant? / G. Fiorentini and B. Ricci -- Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Most Powerful Cosmic Explosions / E. P. J. van den Heuvel -- Astrophysics with High Energy Gamma Rays / H. J. Volk -- Cosmic Rays at the Highest Energies / A. A. Watson -- High-Energy Neutrinos from Cosmic Rays / F. Halzen -- Unravelling the X-Ray Background / G. Hasinger -- What Do We Really Know About Neutron Stars? / L. Woltjer -- Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Centers / R. Bender and J. Kormendy
• Center of the Milky Way / A. Eckart -- Sources of Gravitational Waves / B. F. Schutz -- Status and Prospect of Laser-Interferometric Gravitational Wave Astronomy / K. Danzmann and A. Rudiger -- Fundamental Physics with Space Experiments / S. Vitale -- Astro Particle Physics from Space / R. Battiston -- Stars and Fundamental Physics / G. G. Raffelt -- First Science Results from the VLT Interferometer / F. Paresce, A. Glindemann, P. Kervella, A. Richichi, M. Schoeller, M. Tarenghi, R. van Boekel and M. Wittkowski -- Formation of Planetary Systems / E. F. van Dishoeck -- Extrasolar Planetary Systems / M. Mayor and N. C. Santos -- Towards the Detection of Earth-Like Extra-Solar Planets / M. A. C. Perryman -- Future Perspectives at CERN / J. Ellis -- Future Perspectives at ESO / C. Cesarsky -- Inflationary Perturbations from Non-Scale Invariant Potentials / J. Adams and B. Cresswell -- ^
• NASA -- MIDEX Swift Mission / G. Chincarini -- Latest on the Database of Galaxies at High Redshifts / D. de Mello, E. P. G. Johansson and P. Markstrom -- Serendipitous Detection of Radio Pulses from Evaporating Black Holes, GRBs and Extragalactic Supernova Using SETI@home / P. Demorest, A. Golden, E. Korpela, D. Werthimer and R. Ekers -- High Energy Photon Flux Prediction from Neutralino Annihilation in M 31 / A. Falvard, E. Giraud, A. Jacholkowska, K. Jedamzik, J. Lavalle, G. Moultaka, E. Nuss, F. Piron, P. Salati, M. Sapinski and R. Taillet -- New Unifying Field Spacetime Structure / B. Feigler and M. Joseph -- Visualization of Gravitational Lenses / F. Frutos-Alfaro -- Evolution of Density Fluctuations in a Universe Dominated by su(2)-Valued Yang-Mills Fields / A. Fuzfa and D. Lambert -- High Energy Photon Flux Prediction from Neutralino Annihilation in the Globular Cluster Palomar 13 / E. Giraud, G. Meylan, M. Sapinski, A. Falvard, A. Jacholkowska, K. Jedamzik, J. Lavalle, E. Nuss, G. Moultaka, F. Piron, P. Salati and R. Taillet -- Connections Between Quantum Theory and Cosmology: An Unconventional View / T. Gornitz -- Prototype Synchrotron Radiation Detector / O. Grimm -- Cosmic Shear from STIS Pure Parallels -- II. Analysis / H. Hammerle, J.-M. Miralles, P. Schneider, T. Erben, R. A. E. Fosbury, W. Freudling, N. Pirzkal and S. D. M. White -- Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment / P. Harris -- First High-Resolution Observations of the Lyman [alpha] Forest at 0.9 < z < 1.7 / E. Janknecht, R. Baade and D. Reimers -- Finding Atmospheres of Extra-Solar Planets in High-Dispersion Near-Infrared Spectra / H. U. Kaufl -- New X-Ray Probe for Supermassive Black Holes in Non-Active Galaxies / S. Komossa, D. Xu and J. Wei -- EUSO: From Raw Data to Scientific Results / M. C. Maccarone, O. Catalano, A. Santangelo and L. Scarsi
• Cosmic Alignment Towards the Radio Einstein Ring PKS 1830-211 / G. Meylan, F. Courbin, J.-P. Kneib and C. Lidman -- Gauge-Ready Formulation of the Cosmological Kinetic Theory and CMBR Anisotropy / H. Noh -- APPLES: A Parallel Slitless Imaging Survey for ACS / A. Pasquali, N. Pirzkal, J. R. Walsh, J. E. Rhoads, S. Malhotra and Z. Tsvetanov / APPLES Team -- Radiative Effects in the Modelling of Accretion onto Stellar Magnetospheres / N. Pogorelov, I. Kryukov, U. Anzer, G. Bisnovatyi-Kogan and G. Borner -- Dynamic Steady State Universe: A Qualitative Unification Model / C. Ranzan -- ARCHEOPS: A Large Sky Coverage Balloon-Borne Experiment for Mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background / C. Renault -- European Ultra-High Precision Stellar Photometry Road Map for Asteroseismology and Planet Finding / I. Roxburgh, F. Favata, A. Baglin and J. Christensen-Dalsgaard -- BaR-SPOrt: Balloon-Borne Radiometers for Sky Polarization Observations / C. Sbarra, S. Cortiglioni, G. Bernardi, E. Carretti, S. Cecchini, C. Macculi, G. Ventura, M. Baralis, O. Peverini, R. Tascone, G. Boella, S. Bonometto, M. Gervasi, G. Sironi, M. Tucci, M. Zannoni, V. Natale, R. Nesti, R. Fabbri, J. Monari, S. Poppi, L. Nicastro, R. Di Raffaele, A. Boscaleri, E. Pascale, P. de Bernardis, M. De Petris, S. Masi, M. V. Sazhin and E. N. Vinyajkin -- Effects of Gravitational Lensing on the Hubble Diagram in Quintessence Cosmology / M. Sereno -- Problems of Cosmological Darwinian Selection and the Origin of Habitable Universes / R. Vaas -- Big Bang Nucleosynthesis of Lithium-7 and the Baryon Density of the Universe / E. Vangioni-Flam, A. Coe and M. Casse -- Introducing Astronomical Topics at the University of Cooperative Education / H. Weghorn -- Photometric Redshifts Using Submm Wavelengths / T. Wiklind -- Practical Problems with the Light Curves of GRB Afterglows / A. Zeh and S. Klose
• Dark Matter in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies / W. W. Zeilinger, H. Dejonghe, S. De Rijcke and G. K. T. Hau -- Cosmological Test of Brane Models / H. Ziaeepour.

ISBN

• 3540401792
• 9783540401797

LCCN

2003050683

OCLC

• ocm52182611
• 52182611
• SCSB-8912435

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library