High Energy Astrophysics

The second workshop on High Energy Astrophysics of the Ma..x-Planck-Society and the Academia Sinica was held at Ringberg Castle near Tegernsee during the week July 12-July 17, 1987. It is the purpose of these workshops to en courage the exchange of ideas between German and Chinese astrophysicists (scientists from other countries are also welcome, of course), and the pleas ant atmosphere and surroundings of Ringberg Castle certainly helped the development of relaxed and stimulating discussions. In addition, we seemed to have picked out the one week of perfect weather during a rainy summer. Thanks are due to Mr. Hormann and his staff for creating a perfect infra structure. The proceedings have required a considerable amount of editing, and I hope that all the papers are comprehensible. Thanks are due to Miss Petra Berkemeyer and Miss Hannelore Muller, who patiently retyped several manu scripts and helped with other editing jobs. I did not feel that a sharp refer eeing procedure should be done, although I do not agree with all the papers in this volume. The interested reader will find that this book gives a fair account of the present status of Chinese activities in the field of high energy astrophysics, i.e. in supernova physics, accretion onto compact objects, active galaxies, and cosmology.

Autorentext
Gerhard Börner ist Professor für Physik an der Universität München und Mitarbeiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Garching.Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zur Relativistischen Astrophysik und Kosmologie.

Klappentext

The contributions in this book give an up-to-date survey of the current activities in the People's Republic of China in high energy astrophysics, and especially a thorough discussion of supernovae theory. Among other papers the reader will find a Chinese study on the historical novae and supernovae never before published in English. The reader will find articles on cosmology, the formation of galaxies, radiation transport in strong magnetic fields, active galaxies, and a particularly nice exposition on cosmic strings. All papers are carefully edited and address researchers and graduate students in astronomy and astrophysics.

Inhalt
I Supernovae and Their Remnants.- A Recent Study on the Historical Novae and Supernovae 2.- Models of Type II Supernova and SN 1987A: Observations Versus Theoretical Predictions.- Theoretical Model of SN 1987A and Presupernova Evolution of Massive Stars.- Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis Implications of Supernova 1987A.- X-Ray Observations of Supernova Remnants The State of the Art .- Supernova Explosions Inside Pre-existing Wind-Driven Cavities: Spherically Symmetric Models.- Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) Plays an Important Role in Pulsar Emission.- Line Emission from Magnetized Neutron Stars and Electron Cyclotron Maser Instability.- Radiation Processes in Strong Magnetic Fields.- Radiation Dominated Shocks in a One-Dimensional Plasma Flow.- II Active Galaxies.- Quasar Models.- Accretion Disks in the Centers of Galaxies.- Synchrotron Emission from Shock Waves in Active Galactic Nuclei.- The Masses of Active Galactic Nuclei.- The Study of X-ray Radiation from AGNs.- The Starburst Model for AGNs.- Starburst Galaxies as Recently Formed Companions.- Collision of Giant Molecular Clouds.- III Cosmology.- Cosmic Strings and Galaxy Formation.- The Correlation Strength of Clusters in the Cosmic String Model.- Fractals in the Distribution of Galaxies.- Fractal Turbulence and Origin of Large Scale Structure.- The Two-Point Correlation Function of Groups in CFA Survey.- Large Scale Distribution of Galaxies with Different Luminosity.- The Large Scale Distribution of Abell Clusters.- A Study of the Cosmic Constant H0 with SN1.- The Large Scale Inhomogeneous Distribution of Ly-Alpha Absorption Lines in the Spectra of Quasars.- Clustering of Quasars and Its Evolution.- Evolution in Quasar Clustering Properties.- The Observational Status of Super Clusters at HighRedshifts.- Exact Solutions of the Nonlinear Equations for Self-Gravitating.