Astrophysics and general relativity, vol. 2: Brandeis summer institute 1968

Chretien M., Deser S., Goldstein J.(eds.) Astrophysics and general relativity, vol.1(Gordon-Breach, 1969)(ISBN 0677134908)(600dpi)(311p) ......Page 4
Copyright ......Page 5
Contents ix ......Page 9
Lecturers vi ......Page 6
Foreword vii  ......Page 7
D. LYNDEN-BELL Statistical Mechanics of Stellar Systems 1 ......Page 11
Are the Next Twenty Years Extragalactic? 5 ......Page 15
Remarks on Galaxy Formation and the Origin of the Elements 9 ......Page 19
A Problem of Statistical Mechanics? 14 ......Page 24
Statistical Mechanics of Star Pairs—Ionisation of Doubles 21 ......Page 31
Statistical Mechanics of Uncorrelated Stars in a Spherical Box 25 ......Page 35
The Gravothermal Catastrophe 39 ......Page 49
Relaxation Times—Numerical Fluctuations in the Steady-state Potential 42 ......Page 52
Statistical Mechanics without Individual Encounters 47 ......Page 57
G. B. FIELD The Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium 59 ......Page 69
Introduction 63 ......Page 73
Hi Regions 66 ......Page 76
Hu Regions 71 ......Page 81
Particles and Fields 82 ......Page 92
The Nature of Interstellar Clouds 88 ......Page 98
Intergalactic Medium—Hi 96 ......Page 106
Intergalactic Medium—Hii 102 ......Page 112
C. W. MISNER Gravitational Collapse 113 ......Page 123
Preliminaries: Survey of Differential Geometry 117 ......Page 127
Preliminaries: General Relativity 138 ......Page 148
Collapse Studied from the Exterior Schwarzschild Metric 147 ......Page 157
Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Some Static Solutions 168 ......Page 178
Relativistic Spherical Hydrodynamics 179 ......Page 189
Collapse and Cosmology 188 ......Page 198
A. T. MOFFET Extragalactic Radio Astronomy 217 ......Page 227
Historical Review 221 ......Page 231
Basic Concepts 223 ......Page 233
The Observed Characteristics of Radio Sources 228 ......Page 238
Identifications and Intrinsic Properties of Radio Sources 248 ......Page 258
Synchrotron Radiation 256 ......Page 266
Energetics of Radio Sources 286 ......Page 296
Theories of the Evolution of Radio Galaxies and Quasistellar Sources 291......Page 301
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