Quasars, AGNs and Related Research Across 2000

Conference on the Occasion of L. Woltjer’s 70th Birthday Held at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, 3-5 May 2000

  • Editors
  • Giancarlo Setti
  • Jean-Pierre Swings
Conference proceedings

Part of the ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA book series (ESO)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. The Astrophysics and Cosmology of the 21st Century - Active Galactic Nuclei
    Malcolm S. Longair
    Pages 1-13
  3. The X-Ray Background and the Space Distribution of QSOs
    Günther Hasinger
    Pages 14-25
  4. Relativistic Outflow in Quasars and AGN
    K. I. Kellermann
    Pages 26-34
  5. The Circumnuclear Environment and Early Evolution of AGN
    Lodewijk Woltjer
    Pages 35-42
  6. Advances in the Study of the IGM at High Redshifts with the VLT High-Resolution Spectrograph UVES
    Sandro D’Odorico
    Pages 43-49
  7. The Evolution of Quasars and Their Relation to Galaxies
    Patrick S. Osmer
    Pages 50-55
  8. Why We Need Larger Radiotelescopes: The Atacama Large Millimeter Array
    P. A. Shaver
    Pages 56-65
  9. AGN’s Central Machine Physics from Space VLBI
    Nikolay S. Kardashev
    Pages 66-76
  10. Non-cosmological Redshifts
    G. Burbidge
    Pages 77-95
  11. Supermassive Black Holes
    F. D. Macchetto
    Pages 96-115
  12. Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
    A. Cavaliere
    Pages 116-130
  13. X-Ray Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei
    Yasuo Tanaka
    Pages 131-142
  14. The Role of Ground-Based Infrared Astronomy
    Alan Moorwood
    Pages 143-154
  15. What May We Learn from Multi-Wavelength Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei
    Thierry J.-L. Courvoisier
    Pages 155-164
  16. The Relationship Between Supernova Remnants and Neutron Stars
    Franco Pacini
    Pages 165-170
  17. The Future of Ground-Based Optical Interferometry
    Pierre Léna
    Pages 171-183
  18. Science and Technology of a 100-m Telescope: The OWL Concept
    Roberto Gilmozzi, Philippe Dierickx, Guy Monnet
    Pages 184-192
  19. The Next Generation Space Telescope
    Steven V. W. Beckwith
    Pages 193-204
  20. The Essential Role of Space Astronomy
    R. M. Bonnet
    Pages 205-216

About these proceedings

Introduction

The proceedings of the international conference held in honor or Lodewijk Woltjer, focus on the physics, origin and space distribution of AGNs and quasars and their relationship to the environment, a very wide subject which has attracted much of Lodewijk Wolter's research interest. A number of lectures were also dedicated to reviewing the recent observational advances and those that may be attained by the introduction of new and powerful astronomical instrumentation both from the ground and from space, in recognition of the central role played by L. Woltjer in the promotion of the ESO VLT and of his involvement in shaping ESA's space programme Horizon 2000+.

Keywords

Black Hole Cosmology Galactic Nuclei Neutron Star Quasar Supernova Remnant astronomy astrophysics black hole cosmology galaxy neutron neutron star physics quasar Redshift star Supernova telescope X-ray

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/b75050
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag 2001
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-3-540-42191-7
  • Online ISBN 978-3-540-45326-0
  • Series Print ISSN 1431-2433
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-6143
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