The book reviews the present status of understanding the nature of the most luminous objects in the Universe, connected with supermassive black holes and supermassive stars, clusters of galaxies and ultraluminous galaxies, sources of gamma-ray bursts and relativistic jets. Leading experts give overviews of essential physical mechanisms involved, discuss formation and evolution of these objects as well as prospects for their use in cosmology, as probes of the intergalactic medium at high redshifts and as a tool to study the end of dark ages. The theoretical models are complemented by new exciting results from orbital and ground-based observatories such as Chandra, XMM-Newton, HST, SDSS, VLT, Keck, and many others.
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The book reviews the present status of understanding the nature of the most luminous objects in the Universe, connected with supermassive black holes and supermassive stars, clusters of galaxies and ultraluminous galaxies, sources of gamma-ray bursts and relativistic jets. Leading experts give overviews of essential physical mechanisms involved, discuss formation and evolution of these objects as well as prospects for their use in cosmology, as probes of the intergalactic medium at high redshifts and as a tool to study the end of dark ages. The theoretical models are complemented by new exciting results from orbital and ground-based observatories such as Chandra, XMM-Newton, HST, SDSS, VLT, Keck, and many others.
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central cool component, suhmm sources, cooling flow region, cooling flow model, epsilon mechanism, soft lag, intergalactic shocks, spectral lag, ultrarelativistic outflows, decreasing redshift, coolest gas, excursion angle, flare state, quasar candidates, weak lensing effects, radio plasma, accretion radius, tidal dwarfs, magnetic rotator, reflection hump, supermassive holes, giant luminous arcs, cooling flow clusters, metal absorption lines, column density distribution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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central cool component, suhmm sources, cooling flow region, cooling flow model, epsilon mechanism, soft lag, intergalactic shocks, spectral lag, ultrarelativistic outflows, decreasing redshift, coolest gas, excursion angle, flare state, quasar candidates, weak lensing effects, radio plasma, accretion radius, tidal dwarfs, magnetic rotator, reflection hump, supermassive holes, giant luminous arcs, cooling flow clusters, metal absorption lines, column density distribution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics: Proceedings of the ESO/CERN/ESA Symposium Held at Garching, Germany, 4-7 March 2002 (ESO Astrophysics Symposia) by Peter A. Shaver in Back Matter
- Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies: Volume 1, Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series (Carnegie Observatories and Astrophysics Series) (v. 1) by Luis C. Ho on page 66
- From Twilight to Highlight: The Physics of Supernovae: Proceedings of the ESO/MPA/MPE Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 29-31 July 2002 (ESO Astrophysics Symposia) by Wolfgang Hillebrandt in Back Matter
- Toward an International Virtual Observatory by Peter J. Quinn in Back Matter
- Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference Held at Garching, Germany, 21-25 June 2004 (ESO Astrophysics Symposia) by Andrea Merloni in Back Matter
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