X-ray astronomy : stellar endpoints, AGN, and the diffuse X-ray background : Bologna, Italy, 6-10 September 1999 / editors, Nicholas E. White, Giuseppe Malaguti, Giorgio G.C. Palumbo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, N. E. (Nicholas E.), 1952-

Malaguti, Giuseppe.

Palumbo, G. G. C.

Series:

AIP conference proceedings ; no. 599.

AIP conference proceedings, 0094-243X ; v. 599

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

X-ray astronomy--Congresses.

X-ray astronomy.

Active galactic nuclei--Congresses.

Active galactic nuclei.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 1041 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Stellar endpoints, AGN, and the diffuse X-ray background

Place of Publication:

Melville, NY : American Institute of Physics, [2001]

Contents:

X-ray Sources as Tracers of the Large-Scale Structure in the Universe / X. Barcons, F. J. Carrera, M. T. Ceballos, S. Mateos 3

An X-ray View of Millisecond Pulsars / W. Becker 13

Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies as an Extreme of Seyfert Activity / T. Boller 25

X-ray Transients Monitored by the All-Sky Monitor on RXTE: A Tabulation / H. Bradt, A. Levine, R. Remillard, D. A. Smith 35

X-ray Absorption in Radio-Quiet QSOs / W. N. Brandt, S. C. Gallagher, A. Laor, B. J. Wills 53

X-ray Transients in Quiescence / S. Campana 63

What's Wrong with AGN Models for the X-ray Background? / A. Comastri 73

Coronal Heating and Emission Mechanisms in AGN / T. Di Matteo 83

The Energy Output of the Universe / A. C. Fabian 93

Relativistic Jets from X-ray Binaries: Recent Advances / R. P. Fender 101

The BeppoSax Hellas Survey: On the Nature of Faint Hard X-ray Selected Sources / F. Fiore, L. A. Antonelli, P. Ciliegi, A. Comastri, P. Giommi, F. La Franca, R. Maiolino, G. Matt, S. Molendi, G. C. Perola, C. Vignali 111

Relativistic Flows in Blazars / G. Ghisellini 120

BeppoSax Observations of Bright Radio Galaxies / P. Grandi 130

Probing the Cosmic Dark Age in X-rays / Z. Haiman 140

High-Energy Emission from Isolated Pulsars / A. K. Harding 150

The 4 and One-Half (Plus or Minus One Half) Soft Gamma Repeaters in Review / K. Hurley 160

X-ray Properties of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIGS) / K. Iwasawa 169

Spectral Signatures of Kilohertz Quasiperiodic Oscillations from Accreting Neutron Stars / P. Kaaret 179

Deep ROSAT Surveys and the Contribution of AGNs to the Soft X-ray Background / I. Lehmann, G. Hasinger, M. Schmidt, J. E. Gunn, D. P. Schneider, R. Giacconi, M. McCaughrean, J. Trumper, G. Zamorani 189

Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei / R. Maiolino 199

The Broad Band Spectrum and Variability of Seyfert 1 / G. Matt 209

The Anomalous X-ray Pulsars / S. Mereghetti 219

Beat-Frequency Models of Kilohertz QPOs / M. Coleman Miller 229

Jets in Quasars, Microquasars, and Gamma-ray Bursts / I. F. Mirabel 239

Isolated Neutron Stars Discovered by ROSAT / C. Motch 244

Transient Be Star Binary Systems / F. Nagase 254

Iron K Line Emission in AGN: Observations / K. Nandra 264

Photoionized Gas in Starburst and Active Galaxies / H. Netzer 274

Hard X-ray Tails and Cyclotron Features in X-ray Pulsars / M. Orlandini, D. Dal Fiume 283

X-ray Afterglows of Gamma-ray Bursts / L. Piro 295

Time Lags in Compact Objects: Constraints on the Emission Models / J. Poutanen 310

Low-Luminosity AGN and Normal Galaxies / A. Ptak 326

The USA X-ray Timing Experiment / P. S. Ray, K. S. Wood, G. Fritz, P. Hertz, M. Kowalski, W. N. Johnson, M. N. Lovellette, M. T. Wolff, D. Yentis, R. M. Bandyopadhyay, E. D. Bloom, B. Giebels, G. Godfrey, K. Reilly, P. Saz Parkinson, G. Shabad, P. Michelson, M. Roberts, D. A. Leahy, L. Cominsky, J. Scargle, J. Beall, D. Chakrabarty, Y. Kim 336

Observing the Effects of Strong Gravity with Future X-ray Missions / C. S. Reynolds 346

Radio-Loud AGNs: The X-ray Perspective / R. M. Sambruna, M. Eracleous 355

The Relativistic Precession Model for QPOs in Low Mass X-ray Binaries / L. Stella 365

Oscillations during Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts: A New Probe of Neutron Stars / T. E. Strohmayer 377

Early Results from the Chandra Observatory / H. Tananbaum 387

Results from X-ray Surveys with ASCA / Y. Ueda 396

Kilohertz Quasi-periodic Oscillations

Observational Overview / M. van der Klis 406

What Have We Learned about Gamma-ray Bursts from Afterglows? / M. Vietri 416

Keck K-Band Observations of Low Mass X-ray Binaries / P. J. Callanan, A. V. Filippenko, M. R. Garcia 433

Intensive HST/RXTE Monitoring of NGC 3516: Evidence against Thermal Reprocessing / R. Edelson 437

Synchrotron and Compton Components and Their Variability in BL Lac Objects / P. Giommi, G. Ghisellini, P. Padovani, G. Tagliaferri 441

A New Pulsar/SNR Pair: AX J1845-0258 in G29.6+0.1 / E. V. Gotthelf, G. Vasisht, K. Torii, B. M. Gaensler 445

The X-ray Source Populations of the Magellanic Clouds / F. Haberl 449

Discovery of Two High-Magnetic-Field Radio Pulsars / V. M. Kaspi, F. Camilo, A. G. Lyne, R. N. Manchester, J. F. Bell, N. D'Amico, N. P. F. McKay, F. Crawford 453

Evidence for Photon Bubble Oscillations (PBO) and Turbulence in Centaurus X-3 / R. I. Klein, J. G. Jernigan, J. Arons 457

ASCA Observations of the New Jet System XTE J1748-288 / T. Kotani, N. Kawai, F. Nagase, M. Namiki, M. Sakano, T. Takeshima, Y. Ueda, M. Matsuoka 462

A BeppoSAX Observation of Nova Velorum 1999: A Very Bright Classical Nova / M. Orio, A. N. Parmar, L. Amati, R. Benjamin, M. Della Valle, F. Frontera, J. Greiner, T. Mineo, H. Ogelman, S. Starrfield, E. Trussoni 466

A Self-consistent Test of Comptonization Models Using a Long BeppoSAX Observation of NGC 5548 / P. O. Petrucci, F. Haardt, L. Maraschi, P. Grandi, G. Matt, F. Nicastro, L. Piro, G. C. Perola, A. De Rosa 470

A Rosat Hri Survey of Bright Nearby Galaxies / T. P. Roberts, R. S. Warwick 474

A New Event Analysis Method for the X-ray Photon Count CCD / T. G. Tsuru, H. Awaki, K. Koyama, K. Hamaguchi, H. Murakami, M. Nishiuchi, M. Sakano, H. Tsunemi 478

Probing Dense Matter in the Cores of AGN: Observations with RXTE and ASCA / K. A. Weaver 482

Warm Comptonization in AGN: Effect on the Iron K[alpha] Line and the Lyman Edge / A. Abrassart, A. M. Dumont 489

Average Properties of Gamma-ray Bursts Spectra from 2 to 700 keV with BeppoSAX / L. Amati, F. Frontera, D. Dal Fiume, M. Orlandini, E. Palazzi, E. Costa, M. Feroci, P. Soffitta, M. N. Cinti, J. Heise, J. in't Zand, J. M. Muller, L. Nicastro, M. Tavani 493

High-Energy Spectra of Seyfert 2 Galaxies / L. Bassani, G. Malaguti, A. Malizia, J. B. Stephen, E. Caroli, G. Di Cocco, F. Frontera, M. Trifoglio 497

New Results from the HRX BL Lac Sample / V. Beckmann, A. Wolter 502

RXTE Monitoring of Centaurus A / S. Benlloch, R. E. Rothschild, J. Wilms, C. S. Reynolds, W. A. Heindl, K. Pottschmidt, A. Orr, I. Kreykenbohm, R. Staubert 506

Electron Injection Break and Pair Content of Quasar Jets / M. Blazejowski, M. Sikora, R. Moderski, T. Bulik 510

Observing the Unobservable: Coronal Line Data from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1s as a Test of EUV Continuum Models / P. J. Bleackley, P. T. O'Brien 514

Low- and High-Frequency Quasi-periodic Oscillations in 4U1915-05: Relation with Source State / L. Boirin, D. Barret, J. F. Olive 518

Rosat Discovered Soft X-ray Intermediate Polars: UU Col and RX J0806.3+1527 / V. Burwitz, K. Reinsch 522

A New BL Lac Sample from the REX Survey / A. Caccianiga, T. Maccacaro, A. Wolter, R. Della Ceca, I. M. Gioia 526

On the Fate of Stars near a Supermassive Black Hole / A. Cadez, A. Gomboc 530

Deriving the Emissivity Law in Accretion Disks from X-ray Iron Emission Lines / A. Cadez, M. Calvani, C. Di Giacomo, P. Marziani 534

Variability of the Relativistic Iron K-Line in NGC 3516 / A. Cadez, M. Calvani 538

An EUVE Observation of the Globular Cluster NGC 1851 / P. J. Callanan, J. J. Drake, A. Fruscione, D. Christian 542

BeppoSAX Observations of Cen X-4 in Quiescence / S. Campana, L. Stella, S. Mereghetti, D. Cremonesi 546

Multiple BeppoSAX Observations of IC 4329A to Probe the Origin of the Compton Reflection Component in Seyfert 1 Galaxies / M. Cappi, G. Di Cocco, M. Dadina, G. Malaguti, M. Matsuoka, G. Matt, G. C. Perola, L. Piro 550

Hard Sources, Their Colours, and the X-ray Background / F. J. Carrera, J. P. D. Mittaz, M. J. Page 554

PKS 2155-304

A Source of Very High Energy Gamma Rays / P. M. Chadwick, K. Lyons, T. J. L. McComb, K. J. Orford, J. L. Osborne, S. M. Rayner, S. E. Shaw, K. E. Turver 558

BeppoSAX Observations of MKN 421: Clues on the Particle Acceleration? / G. Fossati, A. Celotti, M. Chiaberge, L. Chiappetti, Y. H. Zhang 562

Very High Energy Gamma Rays from Cen X-3 / P. M. Chadwick, K. Lyons, T. J. L. McComb, K. J. Orford, J. L. Osborne, S. M. Rayner, S. E. Shaw, K. E. Turver 566

Very High Energy Gamma-ray Observations of Southern Hemisphere AGNs / P. M. Chadwick, K. Lyons, T. J. L.

McComb, K. J. Orford, J. L. Osborne, S. M. Rayner, S. E. Shaw, K. E. Turver 570

Search for Interactions between Ejections of GRS 1915+105 and Its Environment / S. Chaty, L. F. Rodriguez, I. F. Mirabel 574

EUVE/ASCA/RXTE Observations of NGC 5548 / J. Chiang, C. Reynolds, O. Blaes, M. Nowak, N. Murray, G. Madejski, H. Marshall, P. Magdziarz 578

Super-agile

The X-ray Detector for the Gamma-ray Mission AGILE / E. Costa, L. Barbanera, M. Feroci, M. Frutti, I. Lapshov, B. Martino, M. Mastropietro, E. Morelli, M. Rapisarda, A. Rubini, P. Soffitta, M. Tavani, S. Mereghetti, S. Vercellone, P. Caraveo, F. Perotti, G. Barbiellini, G. Budini, F. Longo, M. Prest, E. Vallazza, A. Morselli, P. Picozza, V. Cocco, C. Pittori, G. Di Cocco, C. Labanti 582

New Extreme Synchrotron BL Lac Objects / L. Costamante, G. Ghisellini, P. Giommi, G. Tagliaferri, A. Celotti, M. Chiaberge, L. Chiappetti, G. Fossati, L. Maraschi, F. Tavecchio, A. Treves, A. Wolter 586

The Complex and Variable Absorption of NGC 3516 Observed by BeppoSAX / E. Costantini, C. Salvini, A. Comastri, A. Fruscione, S. Mathur, F. Nicastro, G. M. Stirpe, B. Wilkes 590

Erratic Variability of LMC X-1 in the 1.5-10 keV Range: Sporadic Presence of a QPO in a Black Hole Candidate / D. Dal Fiume, F. Haardt, M. R. Galli, A. Treves, L. Chiappetti 594

The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey: Preliminary Results / N. D'Amico, A. G. Lyne, R. N. Manchester, F. M. Camilo, V. M. Kaspi, J. Bell, I. H. Stairs, F. Crawford, D. Morris, A. Possenti 598

The ASCA Hard Serendipitous Survey (HSS): A Progress Update / R. Della Ceca, V. Braito, I. Cagnoni, T. Maccacaro 602

BeppoSAX Observations of Asynchronous Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables / D. de Martino, G. Matt, T. Belloni, K. Beuermann, B. T. Gansicke, F. Haberl, M. Mouchet, K. Mukai, J. M. Bonnet-Bidaud 606

The BeppoSAX Long Looks at the Seyfert 1 Galaxies NGC 5548 and NGC 3783 / A. De Rosa, L. Piro, F. Nicastro, P. Grandi, M. Dadina, F. Fiore, F. Haardt, J. Kaastra, L. Maraschi, G. Matt, T. Mineo, G. C. Perola, P. O. Petrucci, A. Treves 610

Discovery of Hard X-ray Emission from Type II Bursts of the Rapid Burster / F. Frontera, N. Masetti, M. Orlandini, L. Amati, E. Palazzi, D. Dal Fiume, S. Del Sordo, G. Cusumano, A. N. Parmar, G. Pareschi, I. Lapidus, L. Stella 614

X-ray Beaming in the High Magnetic Field Pulsar GX 1+4 / D. K. Galloway, K. Wu 618

Variable Fe-K[alpha] Line Profiles in Sy 1 Galaxies / J. Gelbord, K. A. Weaver 622

AGN X-ray Absorption vs. Optical Classification: Hints from the XRB Models / R. Gilli, G. Risaliti, M. Salvati 626

IBIS/INTEGRAL Galactic Plane Observations: X-ray Novae / P. Goldoni, A. Goldwurm, P. Laurent, F. Lebrun 630

RXTE Studies of the Starburst Galaxies M82 and NGC253 / D. E. Gruber, Y. Rephaeli 634

Comptonization in X-ray Bright Neutron Star Globular Cluster Systems / M. Guainazzi, A. N. Parmar, T. Oosterbroek 638

Transient Taxonomy / C. A. Haswell, A. R. King 642

The VSOP Mission and the Possible Future / H. Hirabayashi, Y. Murata, P. G. Edwards, H. Kobayashi 646

Digitized Astronomical Plates: Optical Data for X-ray Astronomy / R. Hudec 650

X-ray Astronomy 2000: Wide Field X-ray Monitoring with Lobster-Eye Telescopes / A. Inneman, R. Hudec, L. Pina, P. Gorenstein 654

Spectral Evolution during Dipping in X 1624-490 from the BeppoSAX Observation / P. J. Humphrey, M. J. Church, M. Balucinska-Church, A. N. Parmar 658

Optical Observations of Supersoft Source 0925-47 / J. B. Hutchings, A. P. Cowley, D. Crampton, P. Schmidtke 662

X-ray Emission from Supernovae / S. Immler, W. Pietsch 666

Detection of Supernova Remnant and Black Hole Candidates in M83 with ROSAT / S. Immler, M. Ehle, W. Pietsch, A. Vogler 670

A Systematic Search for new X-ray Pulsators in Public ROSAT HRI and BeppoSAX SMC Fields / G. L. Israel, S. Campana, S. Covino, D. Dal Fiume, D. Lazzati, T. Oosterbroek, M. Orlandini, M. R. Panzera, A. N. Parmar, D. Ricci, G. Tagliaferri, L. Stella 674

The Relativistic Astrophysics Explorer: A New Mission for X-ray Timing / P. Kaaret, J. Grindlay, F. K. Lamb, E. H. Morgan, J. H. Swank, W. Zhang 678

Luminous Supersoft X-ray Emission from the Recurrent Nova U Scorpii / P. Kahabka 682

An Optical and X-ray Study of the Peculiar Narrow-Line Quasar QSO 0117-2837 / S. Komossa, D. Grupe, V. Burwitz, M. Janek 686

Simultaneous X-ray/Optical Brust from GS 1826-24 / A. Kong, L. Homer, E. Kuulkers, P. Charles, A. Smale 690

An X-ray/TeV Gamma-ray Study of Mkn 501 during Its Extraordinary Outburst of 1997 / H. Krawczynski, P. S. Coppi, T. Maccarone, F. A. Aharonian 694

Wind Accretion in HMXRB / I. Kreykenbohm, J. Wilms, P. Kretschmar, R. Staubert, R. E. Rothschild, W. A. Heindl, D. E. Gruber 698

Two Cyclotron Lines in Vela X-1? / I. Kreykenbohm, P. Kretschmar, J. Wilms, R. Staubert, W. A. Heindl, D. E. Gruber, R. E. Rothschild 702

Her X-1 X-ray Turn-On Monitored by RXTE / M. Kuster, J. Wilms, R. Staubert, D. E. Gruber, R. E. Rothschild, W. A. Heindl 706

RXTE Observations of Seyfert Galaxies: Evidence for Reflection from Disk and Torus / G. Lamer, P. Uttley, I. M. M[superscript c]Hardy 710

Ginga Observations of the Short High State in Her X-1 / D. Leahy 714

Two Photon Bremsstrahlung in Strong Magnetic Fields / D. Leahy, L. Semionova 718

A Series of Eclipses of Her X-1 Observed with RXTE / D. Leahy, D. M. Scott 722

The Optically Bright REX Sample / D. Lentini, R. Della Ceca, T. Maccacaro, A. Wolter, A. Caccianiga, I. M. Gioia 726

The REX Survey: The Catalog / T. Maccacaro, R. Della Ceca, A. Wolter, A. Caccianiga, I. M. Gioia 730

Measurements of Fluctuations in the Hard X-ray Background with RXTE / D. R. MacDonald, D. E. Gruber, E. A. Boldt 734

The Radio to Hard X-ray Spectral Energy Distribution of BeppoSAX Emission Line AGN / A. Malizia, F. Fiore 738

Time Dependent Comptonisation / J. Malzac, E. Jourdain 742

Spectral Features from X-ray Illuminated Accretion Discs as Diagnostics of the Black Hole Angular Momentum / A. Martocchia, G. Matt, V. Karas 746

EPIC/XMM Calibrations / P. Marty, J.-P. Bernard 750

BeppoSAX Spectra of Five Low Mass X-ray Binaries / N. Masetti, E. Pian, R. Frontera, E. Palazzi, L. Amati, M. Orlandini, D. Dal Fiume 754

X-ray Evidence of an AGN in M82 / H. Matsumoto, T. G. Tsuru 758

Resolving the 10-40 keV Cosmic X-ray Background with Constellation-X / G. Matt, F. Pompilio, F. La Franca 762

Correlated Variability in LMC X-2 / K. E. McGowan, P. A. Charles, D. O'Donoghue, A. P. Smale 766

The Multicolour Disc Model Parameter for Black Hole Candidates: Can We Trust the Inner Disc Measurements? / A. Merloni, A. C. Fabian, R. R. Ross 770

Spatial Distribution of Spectral Characteristics of the Supernova Remnant Cas A / T. Mineo, M. C. Maccarone, A. Preite-Martinez, J. Vink, J. S. Kaastra 774

Variability of an Iron Line Profile and a Power-Law Continuum / K. Misaki, H. Kunieda, Y. Terashima 778

Why Do Broad Line AGN Show Up among Faint Hard X-ray Sources? / J. P. D. Mittaz, M. J. Page, F. J. Carrera 782

Hysteretic Behavior and Coherence of the Black Hole Candidate X-ray Binaries / S. Miyamoto, S. Kitamoto 786

An Extended Multi-zone Model for the MCG-6-30-15 Warm Absorber / R. Morales, A. C. Fabian, C. S. Reynolds 790

Dust Scattered X-ray Halo of 4U 1538-52 Observed with ASCA / F. Nagase, T. Dotani, T. Endo, H. Ozawa, S. Uno, T. Kotani, T. Mihara 794

Short-Term Spectral Variations during X-ray Flares in Black Hole Candidates and AGNs / H. Negoro 798

High-resolution Observations of X-ray Absorbers/Emitters / F. Nicastro, M. Elvis, F. Fiore, G. Matt, S. Savaglio 802

Intermediate Polar Spin Pulse Profiles / A. J. Norton 806

Resonant Truncation of Be Disks and Type I Outbursts in Be/X-ray Binaries / A. T. Okazaki, I. Negueruela 810

Time Lags in Low Mass X-ray Binaries / J.-F. Olive, D. Barret 814

The X-ray Spectra of AGN Accretion Disk Coronae: First Results / A. Orr, G. Torricelli-Ciamponi, P. Pietrini 818

A Survey for Hard Spectrum ROSAT Sources / M. J. Page, J. P. D. Mittaz, F. J. Carrera 822

Automatic Search for Periodic Sources in the ROSAT Database / S. Paltani, P. Bartholdi 826

The X-ray Spectrum of [OIII lambda]5007 Selected Seyfert 2 Galaxies / A. Pappa, I. Georgantopoulos, G. C. Stewart, A. L. Zezas 830

The 0.5-10 keV Spectra of Broad-Line Quasars and the X-ray Background / A. Pappa, G. C. Stewart, I. Georgantopoulos, R. E. Griffiths, B. J. Boyle, T. Shanks, O.

Almaini 834

BeppoSAX Observations of the Her X-1 Short-On and Anomalous Low-States / A. N. Parmar, T. Oosterbroek, D. Dal Fiume, M. Orlandini, A. Santangelo, S. Del Sordo, A. Segreto 838

XEUS

The X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy Mission / A. N. Parmar, T. Peacock, M. Bavdaz, G. Hasinger, M. Arnaud, X. Barcons, D. Barret, A. Blanchard, H. Bohringer, M. Cappi, A. Comastri, T. Courvoisier, A. C. Fabian, R. Griffiths, G. Malaguti, K. O. Mason, T. Ohashi, F. Paerels, L. Piro, J. Schmitt, M. van der Klis, M. Ward 842

Spectral Evolution of GRS 1915+105 during the Regular Flares / B. Paul, A. R. Rao 846

Detection of a Pulsating Soft Component in the X-ray Pulsar XTE J0111.2-7317 / B. Paul, J. Yokogawa, M. Ozaki, F. Nagase, D. Chakrabarty, T. Takeshima 850

BeppoSAX Detection of Highly Ionized Emission and Absorption Features in M81 / S. Pellegrini, M. Cappi, L. Bassani, G. Malaguti, G. G. C. Palumbo, M. Persic 854

The BeppoSAX GRATIS Survey / M. Perri, P. Giommi, F. Fiore, M. Capalbi 858

Pair Creation at Shocks: A Possible Origin of the High-Energy Variability of AGNs / P. O. Petrucci, G. Henri, G. Pelletier 862

BeppoSAX Observations of Markarian 501 in June 1999 / E. Pian, L. Chiappetti, P. Giommi, F. Tavecchio, L. Maraschi, E. Palazzi, F. Aharonian, M. Catanese, A. Celotti, B. Degrange, A. Djannati-Atai, G. Fossati, G. Ghisellini, H. Krawczynski, C. M. Raiteri, R. M. Sambruna, D. Smith, G. Tagliaferri, G. Tosti, A. Treves, C. M. Urry, M. Villata 866

Accretion Disk Boundary Layers in Low-Mass X-ray Binaries / R. Popham, R. Sunyaev 870

Weighing the Black Hole in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy, RE J1034+396 / E. M. Puchnarewicz, K. O. Mason, A. Siemiginowska, I. Cagnoni, A. Comastri, F. Fiore, A. Fruscione 874

Spectral Signatures of Reprocessing on Hercules X-1/Hz Herculis / H. Quaintrell, M. D. Still, S. D. Vrtilek, B. Boroson, P. Roche 878

X-rays from the Seyfert Galaxy IC 4329A, Its Neighbours, and Its Galaxy Group / A. M. Read, W. Pietsch 886

Nature of "Passive" Elliptical Galaxies / T. A. Rector, J. T. Stocke 890

PDS 456: An Extreme Accretion Rate Quasar? / J. Reeves, P. O'Brien, S. Vaughan, D. Law-Green, M. Ward, C. Simpson, K. Pounds, R. Edelson 894

The X-ray Properties of Luminous Infrared Galaxies / G. Risaliti, R. Gilli, R. Maiolino, M. Salvati 898

The Orbital Light Curve of Aquila X-1 / E. L. Robinson, W. F. Welsh, P. Young 902

Magnetic Field Limit on SGR 1900+14 / R. E. Rothschild, D. Marsden, R. E. Lingenfelter 906

X-ray Iron Line Variability for the Model of an Orbiting Flare above a Black Hole Accretion Disc / M. Ruszkowski 910

The Influence of Resonant Absorption on the Fe Emission Line Profiles from Accreting Black Holes / M. Ruszkowski, A. C. Fabian 914

Morphological Analysis of a Statistically Complete X-ray Selected Sample of Seyfert Galaxies / M. Salvato, P. Bohm, J.-U. Fischer, G. Hasinger, I. Lehmann, P. Rafanelli 918

Irradiation of the Secondary Star in X-ray Nova Scorpii 1994 (=GRO J1655-40) / T. Shahbaz, P. Groot, S. N. Phillips, J. Casares, P. A. Charles, J. van Paradijs 922

Faint-Source Contributions to the Extragalactic X-ray Background in an XMM Deep Field / R. Shirey, F. Cordova, J. Kennea, D. Pandel, T. Sasseen, J. West 927

BeppoSAX Observations of the Galactic Center Region: Soft X-rays from the Radio Halo of SGRA East / L. Sidoli, S. Mereghetti, A. Treves, L. Chiappetti, G. L. Israel, M. Orlandini 931

On Pair Content of Quasar Jets / M. Sikora, G. Madejski 935

CCD Photometry of Outbursts in GK Per / V. Simon, Z. Velic 939

Color Variations during Activity States of the Binary V SGE / V. Simon, S. Shugarov 943

Activity of the Dwarf Nova CH Uma / V. Simon 947

ROSAT Reveals the Large Scale Distribution of Matter / A. Soltan, M. Freyberg, G. Hasinger, T. Miyaji, M. Treyer, J. Trumper 951

The IBIS Data Handling System / M. Stuhlinger, E. Goehler, C. Dreischer, R. Volkmer, R. Staubert, E. Kendziorra, N. v.Krusenstiern, P. Risse, R. Weiss 955

The Population of Faint X-ray Sources in the Galaxy and Their Contribution to the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission / M. Sugizaki, K. Matsuzaki, H. Kaneda, S. Yamauchi, K. Mitsuda, the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey Team 959

An H-R Diagram for AGN? / J. W. Sulentic, P. Marziani, M. Calvani 963

On the Modelling of Time-Dependent Phenomena around Black Holes / E. Szuszkiewicz, J. C. Miller 967

Flaring Blazars with BeppoSAX / G. Tagliaferri, G. Ghisellini, P. Giommi, L. Chiappetti, L. Maraschi, A. Celotti, M. Chiaberge, A. Comastri, L. Costarnante, G. Fossati, E. Massaro, R. Nesci, E. Pian, C. M. Raiteri, M. Ravasio, F. Tavecchio, G. Tosti, A. Treves, M. Villata, A. Wolter 971

Gamma-Loud Quasars: A View with BeppoSAX / F. Tavecchio, L. Maraschi, G. Ghisellini, A. Celotti, L. Chiappetti, A. Comastri, G. Fossati, P. Grandi, F. Haardt, E. Pian, G. Tagliaferri, A. Treves, C. M. Raiteri, R. Sambruna, M. Villata 975

Constraints to the SSC Model for MKN 501 / F. Tavecchio, L. Maraschi 979

Variability of the Iron Line in the Low-Luminosity AGN NGC 4579 / Y. Terashima, T. Yaqoob, P. J. Serlemitsos, H. Kunieda, K. Misaki, A. F. Ptak, L. C. Ho 983

X-ray Properties of FR I Radio Galaxies / E. Trussoni, L. Feretti, A. Capetti, A. Celotti, M. Chiaberge 987

Tartarus

An ASCA AGN Database / T. J. Turner, K. Nandra, D. Turcan, I. M. George 991

X-ray Spectral Complexity in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies / S. Vaughan, J. Reeves, R. Warwick, R. Edelson, K. Pounds 995

ASCA View on High-Redshift Radio-Quiet Quasars / C. Vignali, A. Comastri, M. Cappi, G. G. C. Palumbo, M. Matsuoka 999

The Warm Scattering Medium in NGC 4151 / R. S. Warwick, R. G. Griffiths 1003

The X-ray Spectra of Symbiotic Stars / P. J. Wheatley 1007

Hard Synchrotron BL Lacs: The Case of 1ES 1101-232 / A. Wolter, G. Ghisellini, G. Tagliaferri, F. Tavecchio, A. Caccianiga 1011

ASCA/ROSAT Observations of PKS 2316-423: Spectral Properties of a Low Luminosity Intermediate-Type BL Lac Object / S.-J. Xue, Y.-H. Zhang 1015

Energy Dependent X-ray Variability of the TeV Blazars PKS 2155-304 and MKN 421 / Y. H. Zhang, A. Celotti, A. Treves, G. Fossati, L. Maraschi, E. Pian, S. Paltani, F. Tavecchio, L. Chiappetti, G. Ghisellini, G. Tagliaferri, M. Chiaberge 1019

Structure of the Circumnuclear Region of Seyfert 2 Galaxies

Clues from RXTE Observations of NGC 4945 / P. Zycki, G. Madejski, C. Done 1023

The Constellation X-ray Mission / N. E. White, H. Tananbaum 1027.

Notes:

"... This meeting was a successor to ... the 23rd ESLAB Symposium on 'Two Topics in X-ray Astronomy' ..."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0735400431

OCLC:

249335482