X-Ray astronomy

Stellar Endpoints, AGN, and the Diffuse X-Ray Background

1040 pages, parution le 05/02/2002

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Résumé

This conference took place around the time of the launch of the new X-ray observatories Chandra and XMM-Newton. The meeting marked an opportunity to look back on a successful decade of results from the ROSAT, ASCA, RXTE and BeppoSAX missions. The two topics covered at the meeting were: (1) x-ray binaries and (2) AGN and the x-ray background. X-ray binaries provide a natural laboratory for probing the extreme environments of black holes and neutron stars. A substantial fraction of the x-ray background is the superposition of active galactic nuclei (AGN), which are powered by supermassive black holes. The meeting was organized jointly by ITESRE/CNR and NASA/GSFC, with support from ASI. The meeting itself proved to be very timely and gave an excellent summary of the past discoveries as well as the science challenges awaiting the new missions that would dominate the first decade of the 21st century. The first public presentation of the exciting results from the newly launched Chandra X-ray Observatory was a highlight.

Contents

Preface
Invited papers
Oral presentations
Posters

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	American Institute of Physics
Parution	05/02/2002
Nb. de pages	1040
Format	16,5 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1555g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780735400436
ISBN13	978-0-7354-0043-6