X-ray astronomy 2000 : proceedings of a conference held in Mondello (Palermo), Italy, 4-9 September 2000 / edited by Riccardo Giacconi, Salvatore Serio and Luigi Stella.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giacconi, Riccardo.

Serio, Salvatore.

Stella, L. (Luigi), 1957-

Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Series:

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 234.

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 234

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

X-ray astronomy--Congresses.

X-ray astronomy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 678 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif., USA : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, [2001]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

X-ray Astronomy Facilities 2000 1

Chandra Overview / H. Tananbaum 3

Results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory using the ACIS instrument / G. Garmire 15

High Resolution Spectroscopy: Preliminary Results from the Grating Spectrometers on Chandra and XMM-Newton / A.C. Brinkman, Grating teams of Chandra and XMM-Newton 27

Solar and Stellar Coronae 39

The Solar Corona vs. Stellar Coronae / G. Peres 41

Stellar Coronae: The First 25 Years / J.J. Drake 53

Chandra Spectra of Three Very Active Stars: AB Dor, 44i Boo, and [sigma superscript 2] CrB / J.L. Linsky, S. Skinner, R. Osten, M. Gagne 65

Stellar Coronae with XMM-Newton RGS I. Coronal Structure / M. Gudel, M. Audard, A.J. den Boggende, A.C. Brinkman, J.W. den Herder, J.S. Kaastra, R. Mewe, A.J.J. Raassen, C. de Vries, E. Behar, J. Cottam, S.M. Kahn, F.B.S. Paerels, J.M. Peterson, A.P. Rasmussen, M. Sako, G. Branduardi-Raymont, I. Sakelliou, C. Erd 73

Stellar Coronae with XMM-Newton RGS II. X-ray Variability / M. Audard, M. Gudel, A.J. den Boggende, A.C. Brinkman, J.W. den Herder, J.S. Kaastra, R. Mewe, A.J.J. Raassen, C. de Vries, E. Behar, J. Cottam, S.M. Kahn, F.B.S. Paerels, J.M. Peterson, A.P. Rasmussen, M. Sako, G. Branduardi-Raymont, I. Sakelliou, C. Erd 79

Confronting atomic data with Fe L-shell spectra of stellar coronae / E. Behar, J. Cottam, J.R. Peterson, M. Sako, S. M. Kahn, A. Bar-Shalom, M. Klapisch, A.C. Brinkman 85

Cool Flares on HR 1099 (A Saga of Joint Observations with Chandra and HST) / T.R. Ayres 93

X-ray emission from the active star Gl 355 (LQ Hya) / S. Covino, M.R. Panzera, G. Tagliaferri, R. Pallavicini 101

The 5.52 Year Cycle of Eta Carinae: BeppoSAX Detection of Variable Hard (> 10 keV) X-Ray Emission / S. Rebecchi, R.F. Viotti, P. Grandi, L.A. Antonelli, M.F. Corcoran, A. Damineli, C. Rossi 107

Evidence for compact structuring in the corona of active stars / F. Favata 111

Helium-like ions as powerful X-ray plasma diagnostics / D. Porquet, R. Mewe, A.J.J. Raassen, J.S. Kaastra, J. Dubau 121

Star Forming Regions and Stellar Clusters 129

Chandra Studies of Star Forming Regions / E. D. Feigelson 131

X-ray Emission from Open Clusters / Giuseppina Micela 143

Results from the Chandra HRC Survey of the Orion Nebula Cluster Region / S. Sciortino, E. Flaccomio, G. Micela, F. Damiani, N. Pizzolato, F. R. Harnden, Jr., S. S. Murray, S. J. Wolk 155

X-ray Luminosity Functions of Young Stars in Taurus-Auriga-Perseus / B. Stelzer 165

SNR's and the Hot Interstellar Medium 171

High Resolution Spectroscopy of Two Oxygen-Rich SNRs with the Chandra HETG / C.R. Canizares, K.A. Flanagan, D.S. Davis, D. Dewey, J.C. Houck 173

Reflection Shocked Gas in the Eastern Region of the Cygnus Loop Supernova Remnant / E. Miyata, H. Tsunemi 181

Early Results from Chandra Observations of Supernova Remnants / D.N. Burrows, Y. Maeda, K.T. Lewis, G.P. Garmire, J.A. Nousek, E. Michael, R. McCray, U. Hwang, R. Petre, S. Holt, J.P. Hughes, C.E. Rakowski, P. Slane 189

Detecting X-ray Synchrotron Emission in Supernova Remnants: Implications for Abundances and Cosmic Rays / K.K. Dyer, S.P. Reynolds, K.J. Borkowski, R. Petre 197

The X-ray nebula of the filled center supernova remnant 3C58 and its interaction with the environment / F. Bocchino, D. Lumb, P. Marty, W. Becker, C. Pigot, R.S. Warwick 203

X-ray Binaries 211

Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Strong Field Gravity / L. Stella, M. Vietri 213

The Magnificent Seven: Close-by Cooling Neutron Stars? / A. Treves, S.B. Popov, M. Colpi, M.E. Prokhorov, R. Turolla 225

Chandra

ASCA

RXTE observations of the micro-quasar GRS 1915+105 / J.C. Lee, N.S. Schulz, C.S. Reynolds, A.C. Fabian, E.G. Blackman 231

A radio pulsar phase in accreting X-ray binaries: limited mass transfer and spin-up of the neutron star / L. Burderi, F. D'Antona, M.T. Menna, L. Stella, T. Di Salvo, R. Iaria, N.R. Robba, A. Possenti, N. d'Amico, M. Burgay 237

X-ray emission from supersoft X-ray binaries / K. Reinsch, K. Beuermann, B.T. Gansicke, A. van Teeseling, V. Burwitz 245

Observations of the Galactic Compact X-ray Binaries / M. Ishida 251

Broad P Cygni X-ray Lines from Circinus X-1 / N.S. Schulz, W.N. Brandt 263

The Chandra Observation of the First Resolved and Detected Classical Nova Shell in X-rays: The Shell of Nova Persei 1901 (GK Per) / S. Balman 269

Discovery of a Hard X-ray Component in the Horizontal Branch Spectrum of the Z source GX 17+2 / T. Di Salvo, N.R. Robba, R. Iaria, L. Stella, L. Burderi, G.L. Israel 275

Origin of the X-ray Activity of Be/X-Ray Binaries / A.T. Okazaki, I. Negueruela 281

New Chandra LETGS high Resolution X-ray Spectra of Compact Objects / V. Burwitz, K. Dennerl, F. Haberl, R. Neuhauser, P. Predehl, V.E. Zavlin, K. Reinsch, B. Gansicke 287

Galaxies 293

First Chandra Observations of Galaxies / G. Fabbiano 295

Chandra Observation of the X-ray Faint Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4697 / J.A. Irwin, C.L. Sarazin, J.N. Bregman 307

A spectroscopic survey of the XMM-Newton first light field in the LMC / F. Haberl, B. Aschenbach, K. Dennerl, G. Hasinger, J. Trumper 313

Diffuse X-ray emission from the Magellanic Clouds / M. Sasaki, F. Haberl, W. Pietsch 319

Origin of the scatter in the X-ray luminosity of early-type galaxies / K. Matsushita 325

In search of the oldest star forming regions in Holmberg II / J. Kerp, F. Walter 331

Clusters of Galaxies 337

Cosmological Studies with X-ray Clusters of Galaxies / H. Bohringer 339

X-ray spectroscopy of clusters of galaxies with XMM / J.S. Kaastra, A.J. den Boggende, A.C. Brinkman, C. Ferrigno, J.W. den Herder, R. Mewe, T. Tamura, C. de Vries, J. Cottam, S.M. Kahn, F.B.S. Paerels, J.M. Peterson, A.P. Rasmussen, G. Branduardi-Raymont, I. Sakelliou, M. Audard, M. Gudel, C. Erd 351

Distributions of the Temperature and Metal Abundance in the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies / R. Shibata, M. Ishida, N. Y. Yamasaki, T. Ohashi, K. Matsushita, H. Bohringer, K. Kikuchi, H. Matsumoto 357

The Most Distant RDCS Clusters / P. Rosati 363

Chandra observations of central galaxies in cooling flow clusters / K. Iwasawa, A.C. Fabian, S. Ettori 375

A Study of the Radial Metallicity Distributions for a Sample of Galaxy Clusters Observed with BeppoSAX / S. De Grandi, S. Molendi 381

BeppoSAX observations of very hot cooling-flow clusters of galaxies / S. Ettori, S.W. Allen, A.C. Fabian 387

The BMW Deep X-ray Cluster Survey / A. Moretti, L. Guzzo, S. Campana, S. Covino, D. Lazzati, M. Longhetti, E. Molinari, M.R. Panzera, G. Tagliaferri, I. Dell'Antonio 393

The soft-excess phenomenon in clusters of galaxies / M. Bonamente, R. Lieu, J.P.D. Mittaz 399

Cosmological Constraints from the Galaxy Cluster Mass Function / T.H. Reiprich, H. Bohringer, P. Schuecker 405

The RASSCALS: An X-ray and Optical Study of 260 Galaxy Groups / A. Mahdavi, H. Bohringer, M.J. Geller, M. Ramella 411

Intra-Cluster Gas in Merging Galaxy Clusters: Turbulence, Temperature, and Magnetic Fields / I. Goldman 417

Active Galactic Nuclei 423

Spectra and power of blazar jets / G. Ghisellini 425

Probing the physics of relativistic jets through X-ray observations / L. Maraschi, F. Tavecchio 437

Testing Comptonization models using Beppo-SAX observations of Seyfert 1 galaxies / P.O. Petrucci, F. Haardt, L. Maraschi, P. Grandi, J. Malzac, G. Matt, F. Nicastro, L. Piro, G.C. Perola, A. De Rosa 445

Overview of the BeppoSAX 2000 Observations of Mkn 421 / G. Fossati 453

Properties of the circumnuclear medium in Active Galactic Nuclei / R. Gilli, G. Risaliti, P. Severgnini, R. Maiolino, A. Marconi, M. Salvati 459

Inverse Compton Radiation from the Cosmic Microwave Background in the X-Ray Jet of PKS 0637-752 / F. Tavecchio, L. Maraschi, R.M. Sambruna, C.M. Urry 465

SHEEP: the ASCA 5-10 keV survey / I. Georgantopoulos, K. Nandra, A. Ptak 471

XMM-Newton RGS observations of MCG -6-30-15 and Mrk 766: evidence for emission lines from a relativistic accretion disk / G. Branduardi-Raymont, M.J. Page, I. Sakelliou, S. Zane, A.J. den Boggende, A.C. Brinkman, J.W. den Herder, J.S. Kaastra, R. Mewe, C. de Vries, E. Behar, J. Cottam, S.M.

Kahn, F.B. Paerels, J. Peterson, A. Rasmussen, M. Sako, A.M. Audard, M. Gudel, M. Kuster, J. Wilms, C. Erd 477

New insights on Radio-Galaxy X-ray Emission Components from Chandra / D.M. Worrall, M. Birkinshaw, M.J. Hardcastle 485

Chandra Observations of the PKS 0637-752 X-ray Jet / D.A. Schwartz, M. Elvis, D.E. Harris, E.J. Hooper, W.H. Tucker, S. Virani, B. Wilkes, H.L. Marshall, J.E.J. Lovell, S.J. Tingay, D.L. Jauncey, B.G. Piner, R.A. Preston, M. Birkinshaw, D.M. Worrall, G. Chartas, E.D. Feigelson, K.K. Ghosh, H. Hirabayashi, K.M. Lanzetta, S. Mathur 493

First EPIC results on AGN from XMM-Newton / J.N. Reeves, K.A. Pounds, M.J.L. Turner, P.T. O'Brien 501

The Chandra High Resolution Spectra of Mkn 421 / F. Nicastro, A. Fruscione, M. Elvis, A. Siemiginowska, F. Fiore, S. Bianchi 511

Chandra Constraints on the Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 6166 / T. Di Matteo, R.M. Johnstone, S.W. Allen, A.C. Fabian 517

Deep Sky Objects and X-ray Background 523

The Chandra Deep Field South: Preliminary X-ray and Optical Results / R. Giacconi, P. Rosati, P. Tozzi, M. Nonino, G. Hasinger, C. Norman, J. Bergeron, S. Borgani, R. Gilli, R. Gilmozzi, W. Zheng 525

AGN Population at 10[superscript -13] erg s[superscript -1] cm[superscript -2]: Results from Optical Identification of ASCA Surveys / M. Akiyama 539

Deep Sky Objects and the X-ray Background / A.C. Fabian 545

First HST Observations of the Chandra Deep Field South: Resolving AGN Host Galaxies / E.J. Schreier, A. Koekemoer, N. Grogin, R. Giacconi, G. Hasinger, R. Maiolino, A. Marconi, C. Norman, P. Rosati, M. Salvati 553

The EMSS cluster selection function: X-ray cluster luminosity function / C. Adami, M.P. Ulmer, A. Blanchard, P. Henry 561

Constraints on the composition of the soft extragalactic X-ray background from 0.25 keV shadowing experiments / T.P. Roberts, R.S. Warwick 569

The autocorrelation function of the soft X-ray background / A.M. Soltan, M.J. Freyberg 575

Next Generation Missions 579

XEUS - The X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy Mission / A.N. Parmar, M. Bavdaz, T. Peacock 581

XEUS - the X-ray mirrors and X-ray detectors / R. Willingale 589

The Constellation X-ray Mission / N. E. White, J.A. Bookbinder, H. Tananbaum 597

Japanese X-ray Programmes in the 21st Century / H. Kunieda 611

The Maxim Pathfinder Mission: X-ray Imaging at 100 Micro Arcseconds / W. Cash, N. White, M. Joy 619

An All-sky Advanced X-ray Monitor (AXM) Mission / H. Bradt, R.A. Remillard 627

B-MINE: Balloon-borne Microcalorimeter Nuclear Line Explorer / H. Schnopper, E. Silver, S. Murray, C. Jones, W. Forman, S. Bandler, S. Romaine, P. Slane, J. Grindlay, N. Madden, J. Beeman, E. Haller, D. Smith, M. Barbera, A. Collura, F. Christensen, B. Ramsey, S. Woosley, R. Diehl, G. Tucker, J. Fabregat, V. Reglero, A. Gimenez 633

Laboratory Astrophysics Using a Microcalorimeter on an Electron Beam Ion Trap / E. Silver, H. Schnopper, S. Bandler, N. Brickhouse, S. Murray, M. Barbera, E. Takacs, J.D. Gillaspy, J.V. Porto, I. Kink, R. Deslattes, L. Hudson, J.M. Laming 647

Generation-X: a Large Aperture, High Angular Resolution X-ray Observatory for the 2010's / W. Zhang, R. Petre, N.E. White 657

Development of Hard X-Ray Telescope Using Multilayer Supermirror / K. Tamura, K. Yamashita, Y. Tawara, Y. Ogasaka, K. Haga, T. Okajima, S. Ichimaru, S. Takahashi, H. Kito, A. Goto, K. Nomoto, H. Satake, S. Kato, Y.H. Kunieda, P.J. Serlemitsos, J. Tueller 663

Swift, a satellite for multiwavelength study of GRBs / G. Tagliaferri, on behalf of the Swift consortium 669.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1583810714

OCLC:

48934861