Cosmological Aspects of X-Ray Clusters of Galaxies

ISBN-13: 9780792330585 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 502 str.

Waltraut C. Seitter; W. C. Seitter

Opis

The presentations of this NATO Advanced Study Institute centre around X-ray clusters of galaxies and their role in understanding the structure and evolution of the universe. Reminiscences of the beginning of the extra-solar X-ray astronomy some 30 years ago, of subsequent X-ray satellites which, among other discoveries, found galaxy clusters to be an important new class of intrinsically bright X-ray sources, and highlights from the most recent All Sky Survey by ROSAT serve as an introduction.

Spis treści

Preface. 1. The Present and the Past of X-Ray Astronomy. 2. X-Ray Clusters and Cluster Environments. 3. Cluster Masses and Dynamics. 4. Cooling Flows and Chemical Abundances. 5. Cluster Lensing and Sunyaev--Sel'dovich Effect. 6. Cluster Formation and Evolution. 7. Large-Scale Structure. 8. Structure and Cosmological Parameters. Author Index. Object Index. Subject Index.