High-Energy Astrophysics

During the past decade, the field of astrophysics has progressed at an impressive rate. This was reflected by the topics discussed at the workshop from which this book eminated. These topics include the inflationary universe; the large-scale structure of the universe; the diffuse X-ray background; gravitational lenses, quasars and active galactic nuclei; infrared galaxies; results from infrared astronomical satellites; supernova 1987A; millisecond radio pulsars; quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-ray flux of low-mass X-ray binaries; and gamma-ray bursts.Table of ContentsFRONT MATTERINSTABILITIES IN SN1987A AND OTHER SUPERNOVAEON THE EVOLUTION OF PULSARSTHE SPIN DOWN OF THE RADIO PULSARS BRAKING INDEXAXIALLY SYMMETRICAL SUPERNOVA REMNANTSNEUTRON STARQUAKE MODEL FOR GAMMA-RAY BURSTSTHE SHOCK BREAKOUT IN SN1987A MODELLED WITH THE TIME-DEPENDENT RADIATIVE TRANSFERMANIFESTATIONS OF DYNAMO DRIVEN LARGE-SCALE MAGNETIC FIELD IN ACCRETION DISKS OF COMPACT OBJECTSTURBULIZATION OF SHEAR FLOWS IN ASTROPHYSICSREGULAR VARIABILITY OF THE SHAPE OF THE PRIMARY MINIMUM OF THE ORBITAL LIGHT CURVE OF SS 433 WITH THE PHASE OF THE PRECESSIONAL PERIODCHAOTIC INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE AND THE ANISOTROPY OF THE LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURETHE CYCLOTRON ABSORPTION LINE AND ECLIPSE TRANSITION PHENOMENA OF 4U 1538-52RADIO TELESCOPES AS THE DETECTORS OF SUPER HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRIONSOPTICAL OBSERVATIONS OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEION TWO-DIMENSIONAL RELATIVISTIC STELLAR WINDSCLUSTER RESEARCH WITH X-RAY OBSERVATIONSOBSERVATIONS OS X-RAY PULSARS FROM THE KVANT MODULEGENERATION OF ULTRAHIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAYS IN ACCRETING X-RAY PULSARSCAN A MAN-MADE UNIVERSE BE ACHIEVED BY QUANTUM TUNNELING WITHOUT AN INITIAL SINGULARITY?ON THE ORIGIN OF THE DIFFUSE X-RAY BACKGROUNDGRAVITATIONAL LENSES: THE CURRENT SAMPLE, RECENT RESULTS, AND CONTINUING SEARCHESCOSMIC GAMMA-RAY BURSTSGEORGIAN SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAMON THE NATURE OF PULSAR RADIATIONOBSERVING SN 1987A WITH THE INTERNATIONAL ULTRAVIOLET EXPLORERQUASI-PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS IN LOW-MASS X-RAY BINARIESTHE EVOLUTION OF THE GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION FROM STELLAR COMPONENTS OF GALAXIESCLOSE BINARY STARS IN GLOBULAR CLUSTERSTHE LARGE-SCALE SURFACE BRIGHTNESS DISTRIBUTION OF THE X-RAY BACKGROUNDX-RAY EMISSION FROM ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEION THE OBSERVATIONAL APPEARANCES OF A FREELY PRECESSING NEUTRON STAR IN . . .THE PSR 2127+12 AS AN INDICATOR OF A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE IN THE CORE OF GLOBULAR CLUSTER M 15THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF DOMAIN WALLSA STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS DETECTED BY THE KONUS EXPERIMENT ON VENERA 11 and 12EXTRAGALACTIC X-RAY SOURCE COUNTSULTRALUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIESTHE PECULIAR VELOCITY FIELD PREDICTED FROM THE DISTRIBUTION OF IRAS GALAXIESX-RAY RADIATION FROM SUPERNOVA 1987A. THE RESULTS OF THE KVANT MODULE IN 1987-89BASIC PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY FROM PULSAR TIMING DATAGAS FLOW AND GENERATION OF X-RAY EMISSION IN WR+OB BINARIESHYDRODYNAMIC STUDY OF SUPERNOVA 1987A: THE PHASE OF A WAVE OF COOLING AND RECOMBINATIONAPPENDIX