New century of X-ray astronomy: proceedings of a symposium held in Yokohama, Japan, 6-8 March 2001Annotation These proceedings from the March 2001 conference in Yokohama, Japan feature 47 papers and 181 posters. Papers address the status of new missions, our galaxy and others, accretion and outflow in compact objects, evolution of clusters and distant universes, and future programs. Posters discuss these topics and plasma diagnostics of stellar corona and SNR. Black and white graphs, diagrams, and other images support the findings. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) |
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Contents
A General Description and Current Status of the Chandra Xray | 4 |
Discovery of Xrays from Class 0 Protostar Candidates | 18 |
Supernova Remnants the past the present and the future Invited | 32 |
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absorption abundance accretion disk analysis ASCA ASP Conference Series Astro-E Astrophysics black hole bright cD galaxy Center Chandra clusters of galaxies component Constellation-X cooling core density detected detector distribution effective area electrons emission lines energy band energy resolution erg s_1 evolution Figure flares Galactic gamma-ray hard X-ray hypernova Inoue and H ionization ISAS ISBN Japan Japan Abstract keV band Koyama Kunieda Kyoto light curves magnetic field Makishima mass measured mirror mission MNRAS neutron star Observatory obtained optical orbit parameters PASJ photon pixel plasma power-law pulsar quasars radio radius ratio redshift region ROSAT RXTE Sagamihara Seyfert shows simulation soft spatial spectroscopy spectrum stellar structure supernova survey temperature thermal Tokyo University variability X-ray astronomy X-ray binary X-ray emission X-ray imaging X-ray luminosity X-ray sources X-ray spectra X-ray telescope XEUS XMM-Newton
Bibliographic information
| Title | New century of X-ray astronomy: proceedings of a symposium held in Yokohama, Japan, 6-8 March 2001 Volume 251 of Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series, Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
| Editors | Hajime Inoue, Hideyo Kunieda |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 9, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1583810919, 9781583810910 |
| Length | 609 pages |
| Subjects | › Astronomy Electronic books Science / Astronomy X-ray astronomy |
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