Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology : Proceedings of the Mpa/Eso/Mpe/Usm Joint Astronomy ... Held in Garching, Germany, 6-10 August 2001 - Rilegato

Mpa/Eso/Mpe/Usm Joint Astronomy Conference

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 354043769X ISBN 13: 9783540437697

Casa editrice: Springer Verlag, 2002

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 354043769X
• ISBN 13: 9783540437697
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 618
• Redattore: Siuniaev R., Churazov E.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: CMN Printpool Inh. Mathis Neumann; https://www.also.com/ec/cms5/en_6000/6000/index.jsp; ; Friedrich-Karl-Str. 9; Hamburg; Germania