High-Energy Astrophysics

Walter H. G. Lewin, George W. Clark, Rashid A. Sunyaev, with KathleenKearney Trivers and David M. Abramson, Editors; National Academy of Sciences

• 1 FRONT MATTER; 2 INSTABILITIES IN SN1987A AND OTHER SUPERNOVAE; 3 ON THE EVOLUTION OF PULSARS; 4 THE SPIN DOWN OF THE RADIO PULSARS BRAKING INDEX; 5 AXIALLY SYMMETRICAL SUPERNOVA REMNANTS; 6 NEUTRON STARQUAKE MODEL FOR GAMMA-RAY BURSTS; 7 THE SHOCK BREAKOUT IN SN1987A MODELLED WITH THE TIME-DEPENDENT RADIATIVE TRANSFER; 8 MANIFESTATIONS OF DYNAMO DRIVEN LARGE-SCALE MAGNETIC FIELD IN ACCRETION DISKS OF COMPACT OBJECTS; 9 TURBULIZATION OF SHEAR FLOWS IN ASTROPHYSICS; 10 REGULAR VARIABILITY OF THE SHAPE OF THE PRIMARY MINIMUM OF THE ORBITAL LIGHT CURVE OF SS 433 WITH THE PHASE OF THE PRECESSIONAL PERIOD; 11 CHAOTIC INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE AND THE ANISOTROPY OF THE LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE; 12 THE CYCLOTRON ABSORPTION LINE AND ECLIPSE TRANSITION PHENOMENA OF 4U 1538-52; 13 RADIO TELESCOPES AS THE DETECTORS OF SUPER HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRIONS; 14 OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; 15 ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL RELATIVISTIC STELLAR WINDS; 16 CLUSTER RESEARCH WITH X-RAY OBSERVATIONS; 17 OBSERVATIONS OS X-RAY PULSARS FROM THE KVANT MODULE; 18 GENERATION OF ULTRAHIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAYS IN ACCRETING X-RAY PULSARS; 19 CAN A MAN-MADE UNIVERSE BE ACHIEVED BY QUANTUM TUNNELING WITHOUT AN INITIAL SINGULARITY?; 20 ON THE ORIGIN OF THE DIFFUSE X-RAY BACKGROUND; 21 GRAVITATIONAL LENSES: THE CURRENT SAMPLE, RECENT RESULTS, AND CONTINUING SEARCHES; 22 COSMIC GAMMA-RAY BURSTS; 23 GEORGIAN SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM; 24 ON THE NATURE OF PULSAR RADIATION; 25 OBSERVING SN 1987A WITH THE INTERNATIONAL ULTRAVIOLET EXPLORER; 26 QUASI-PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS IN LOW-MASS X-RAY BINARIES; 27 THE EVOLUTION OF THE GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION FROM STELLAR COMPONENTS OF GALAXIES; 28 CLOSE BINARY STARS IN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS; 29 THE LARGE-SCALE SURFACE BRIGHTNESS DISTRIBUTION OF THE X-RAY BACKGROUND; 30 X-RAY EMISSION FROM ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; 31 ON THE OBSERVATIONAL APPEARANCES OF A FREELY PRECESSING NEUTRON STAR IN ..; 32 THE PSR 2127+12 AS AN INDICATOR OF A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE IN THE CORE OF GLOBULAR CLUSTER M 15; 33 THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF DOMAIN WALLS; 34 A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS DETECTED BY THE KONUS EXPERIMENT ON VENERA 11 and 12; 35 EXTRAGALACTIC X-RAY SOURCE COUNTS; 36 ULTRALUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES; 37 THE PECULIAR VELOCITY FIELD PREDICTED FROM THE DISTRIBUTION OF IRAS GALAXIES; 38 X-RAY RADIATION FROM SUPERNOVA 1987A. THE RESULTS OF THE KVANT MODULE IN 1987-89; 39 BASIC PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY FROM PULSAR TIMING DATA; 40 GAS FLOW AND GENERATION OF X-RAY EMISSION IN WR+OB BINARIES; 41 HYDRODYNAMIC STUDY OF SUPERNOVA 1987A: THE PHASE OF A WAVE OF COOLING AND RECOMBINATION; 42 APPENDIX