International School of Astrophysics "D Chalonge", 1st course, current topics in astrofundamental physics, Erice, Italy, 1-8 September 1991
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International School of Astrophysics "D Chalonge", 1st course, current topics in astrofundamental physics, Erice, Italy, 1-8 September 1991
（The science and culture series, . Astrophysics）
World Scientific, c1992
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Current topics in astrofundamental physics
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume provides an updated understanding of the progress and current problems in the interplay between fundamental physics, astrophysics and cosmology.In the last years, the cross section between these fields has been increasing, both at the theoretical and experimental levels: particle physics experiments, astronomical observations, space satellite data. Such interplay has fruitfully influenced research activity setting up Astrofundamental physics.Topics covered in this volume are: early universe, large scale structure of the universe, dark matter problem, cosmic microwave background radiation, gravitational wave astronomy and neutrino astrophysics. The inter-relation between these topics is important and a source of problems at the frontiers of present knowledge and experimental limits. Latest available data are constraining theory and models in these topics. The book reviews achievements, confronts theory and models with observations and provides information on the latest developments and discussions on future prospects.It also includes a section on stellar spectroscopy and spectrophotometry which covers Daniel Chalonge's work as well as present progress and future prospects in these fields.
Table of Contents
- Daniel Chalonge and the problem of the abundance of hydrogen, S.Chandrasekhar
- big bang nucleosynthesis - the current status, J.Audouze
- topology of the universe, L.Z.Fang
- qualitative cosmology, I.M.Khalatnikow
- cosmic strings, T.W.B.Kibble
- first-order inflation, M.S.Turner
- the search for baryonic dark matter, B.Carr
- searches for dark matter particles, B.Sadoulet
- the cosmic microwave background, J.Silk
- COBE and the early universe, G.Smoot
- large-scale structures and motions - linear theory and statistics, E.W.Bertschinger
- the distribution of galaxies and mass in the local universe, A.Dressler
- dark matter models for the formation of large scale structure, C.Frenk
- large scale structure from cosmic texture, N.Turok
- gravity-wage astronomy - some mathematical aspects, L.P. Grishchuk
- solar neutrinos - theoretical status, W.Haxton
- general relativity - a cornerstone of twentieth century physics, P.G.Bergmann
- from spectrophotometry to fundamental parameters - effective temperature, gravity and metallicity, R.Cayrel
- interplay between spectrophotometry, spectroscopy and astrometry for a better understanding of stellar populations, G.Cayrel
- the essential contribution of double star study to astrophysical understanding, F.van't Veer.
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