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Black Holes in Binaries and Galactic Nuclei: Diagnostics, Demography and Formation

Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 6–8 September 1999, in Honour of Riccardo Giacconi

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  1. Lex Kaper
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  2. Edward P. J. van den Heuvel
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Table of contents (77 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Black Hole Research Past and Future

    • Riccardo Giacconi
    Pages 3-15

  3. Overview: Black Holes in the Universe

    • Mitchell C. Begelman
    Pages 16-24

  4. Black Holes in X-Ray Binaries

    • Phil Charles
    Pages 27-38

  5. Neutron Star Mass Determinations

    • M. H. van Kerkwijk
    Pages 39-44

  6. On the Limiting Mass of Neutron Stars

    • G. Srinivasan
    Pages 45-52

  7. Keck Observations of Black Hole X-Ray Transients

    • Emilios T. Harlaftis, Alexei V. Filippenko
    Pages 53-56

  8. Measuring the Mass of the Black Hole in GS2000+25 Using IR Ellipsoidal Variations

    • Dawn M. Leeber, Thomas E. Harrison, Bernard J. McNamara
    Pages 57-58

  9. YALO Observations of 4U 1543-47

    • Jerome A. Orosz, Charles D. Bailyn, Raj K. Jain, Jenny Greene
    Pages 59-60

  10. Optical Spectroscopic Observations of Black-Hole Candidates

    • Michelle Buxton, Stephane Vennes
    Pages 61-62

  11. The Center of the Galaxy: Evidence for a Massive Black Hole

    • Andreas Eckart, Thomas Ott, Reinhard Genzel
    Pages 63-71

  15. Black-Hole Results from STIS

    • Rob P. Olling, D. Merritt, C. L. Joseph, M. Valluri
    Pages 91-94

  17. Molecular Gas in Nuclei of the Seyfert Galaxies NGC3227 and NGC1068

    • Eva Schinnerer, Andreas Eckart, Linda Tacconi
    Pages 99-100

  18. Centaurus A: The Supermassive Black Hole in the Nearest AGN

    • Ethan J. Schreier, Alessandro Marconi
    Pages 101-106

  19. SINFONI - Galaxy Dynamics at \(0^{\prime\prime}\hspace{-0.2cm}.05\) Resolution with the VLT

    • Niranjan Thatte, Frank Eisenhauer, Matthias Tecza, Sabine Mengel, Reinhard Genzel, Guy Monnet et al.
    Pages 107-110
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The observational evidence for the existence of black holes has grown significantly over recent decades. Stellar-mass black holes are detected as X-ray sources in binary systems, while supermassive black holes, with masses more than a million times the mass of the Sun, lurk in the nuclei of galaxies. These proceedings provide a useful and up-to-date overview of the observations of black holes in binaries, in the center of the Milky Way, and in the nuclei of galaxies, presented by leading expert astronomers. Special attention is given to the formation (including the recent evidence from gamma-ray bursts), physical properties, and demographics of black holes.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Black Holes in Binaries and Galactic Nuclei: Diagnostics, Demography and Formation

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 6–8 September 1999, in Honour of Riccardo Giacconi

  • Editors: Lex Kaper, Edward P. J. van den Heuvel, Patrick A. Woudt

  • Series Title: ESO Astrophysics Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b75143

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-41581-7Published: 26 February 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-30799-1Published: 23 August 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-44562-3Published: 13 February 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1431-2433

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-6143

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 379

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

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