Beschreibung:
It is generally felt in the cosmology and particle astrophysics community that we have just entered an era which later can only be looked back upon as a golden age. Thanks to the rapid technical development, with powerful new telescopes and other detectors taken into operation at an impressive rate, and the accompanying advancement of theoretical ideas, the picture of the past, present and future Universe is getting ever clearer. Some of the most exciting new findings and expected future developments are discussed in this invaluable volume.
Cosmology with clusters of galaxies, N.A. Bahcall; radiochemical solar neutrino experiments and implications, T.A. Kirsten; evidence for neutrino oscillation observed in super-kamiokande, Y. Totsuka; high energy cosmic neutrinos, S.W. Barwick; discovery of the cosmic microwave background, D.T. Wilkinson and P.J.E. Peebles; starlight in the universe, P. Madau; acceleration of ultra high energy cosmic rays, R.D. Blandford; dark matter and dark energy in the Universe, M.S. Turner; dark matter tomography, J.A. Tyson; status of models for gamma ray bursts, M.J. Rees. (Part contents).