Eighteenth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology : "Texas in Chicago", Chicago, 15-20 December 1996 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The Texas Symposia offer a forum for forefront developments on a range of topics in relativistic astrophysics, from pulsars to string theory, from the birth of the universe to the death of stars.

Print Book, English, ©1998

Publisher: World Scientific, Singapore, ©1998

Genre:Congresses

Physical Description:xxvii, 782 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN:

9789810234874, 9810234872

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:38856201

Contents:

Plenary talks; AGNs, QSOs and jets; big bang nucleosynthesis; cosmic microwave background; cosmological parameters; dark matter; early universe; future projects and instruments; high energy cosmic and gamma rays; galaxy clusters; galaxy formation; gamma ray bursts; gravitational lensing; gravitational waves; large-scale structure; nuclear astrophysics; numerical relativity; pulsars and neutron stars; QSO absorption lines; quantum gravity and general relativity; solar neutrino; supernova session; X-ray binaries; X-ray and gamma-ray timing and broad-band; spectroscopy.