Description - High-Energy Astrophysics by National Academy of Sciences
During the past decade, the field of astrophysics has progressed at an impressive rate. This was reflected by the topics discussed at the workshop from which this book eminated. These topics include the inflationary universe; the large-scale structure of the universe; the diffuse X-ray background; gravitational lenses, quasars and active galactic nuclei; infrared galaxies; results from infrared astronomical satellites; supernova 1987A; millisecond radio pulsars; quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-ray flux of low-mass X-ray binaries; and gamma-ray bursts.
Table of Contents
- FRONT MATTER
- INSTABILITIES IN SN1987A AND OTHER SUPERNOVAE
- ON THE EVOLUTION OF PULSARS
- THE SPIN DOWN OF THE RADIO PULSARS BRAKING INDEX
- AXIALLY SYMMETRICAL SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
- NEUTRON STARQUAKE MODEL FOR GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
- THE SHOCK BREAKOUT IN SN1987A MODELLED WITH THE TIME-DEPENDENT
RADIATIVE TRANSFER
- MANIFESTATIONS OF DYNAMO DRIVEN LARGE-SCALE MAGNETIC FIELD IN
ACCRETION DISKS OF COMPACT OBJECTS
- TURBULIZATION OF SHEAR FLOWS IN ASTROPHYSICS
- REGULAR VARIABILITY OF THE SHAPE OF THE PRIMARY MINIMUM OF THE
ORBITAL LIGHT CURVE OF SS 433 WITH THE PHASE OF THE PRECESSIONAL
PERIOD
- CHAOTIC INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE AND THE ANISOTROPY OF THE LARGE-SCALE
STRUCTURE
- THE CYCLOTRON ABSORPTION LINE AND ECLIPSE TRANSITION PHENOMENA OF
4U 1538-52
- RADIO TELESCOPES AS THE DETECTORS OF SUPER HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRIONS
- OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
- ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL RELATIVISTIC STELLAR WINDS
- CLUSTER RESEARCH WITH X-RAY OBSERVATIONS
- OBSERVATIONS OS X-RAY PULSARS FROM THE KVANT MODULE
- GENERATION OF ULTRAHIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAYS IN ACCRETING X-RAY
PULSARS
- CAN A MAN-MADE UNIVERSE BE ACHIEVED BY QUANTUM TUNNELING WITHOUT AN
INITIAL SINGULARITY?
- ON THE ORIGIN OF THE DIFFUSE X-RAY BACKGROUND
- GRAVITATIONAL LENSES: THE CURRENT SAMPLE, RECENT RESULTS, AND
CONTINUING SEARCHES
- COSMIC GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
- GEORGIAN SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM
- ON THE NATURE OF PULSAR RADIATION
- OBSERVING SN 1987A WITH THE INTERNATIONAL ULTRAVIOLET EXPLORER
- QUASI-PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS IN LOW-MASS X-RAY BINARIES
- THE EVOLUTION OF THE GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION FROM STELLAR
COMPONENTS OF GALAXIES
- CLOSE BINARY STARS IN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS
- THE LARGE-SCALE SURFACE BRIGHTNESS DISTRIBUTION OF THE X-RAY
BACKGROUND
- X-RAY EMISSION FROM ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
- ON THE OBSERVATIONAL APPEARANCES OF A FREELY PRECESSING NEUTRON
STAR IN . . .
- THE PSR 2127+12 AS AN INDICATOR OF A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE IN THE CORE
OF GLOBULAR CLUSTER M 15
- THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF DOMAIN WALLS
- A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS DETECTED BY THE KONUS
EXPERIMENT ON VENERA 11 and 12
- EXTRAGALACTIC X-RAY SOURCE COUNTS
- ULTRALUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES
- THE PECULIAR VELOCITY FIELD PREDICTED FROM THE DISTRIBUTION OF IRAS
GALAXIES
- X-RAY RADIATION FROM SUPERNOVA 1987A. THE RESULTS OF THE KVANT
MODULE IN 1987-89
- BASIC PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY FROM PULSAR TIMING DATA
- GAS FLOW AND GENERATION OF X-RAY EMISSION IN WR+OB BINARIES
- HYDRODYNAMIC STUDY OF SUPERNOVA 1987A: THE PHASE OF A WAVE OF
COOLING AND RECOMBINATION
- APPENDIX
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