Currents in High-Energy Astrophysics

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
The Sky as viewed from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory....Pages 1-20
Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 21-30
Gamma-Ray Production in the Winds of Wolf-Rayet Stars....Pages 31-38
Origin of High-Energy X-Ray Emission from NGC253....Pages 39-44
Spectral and Temporal Variability in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries....Pages 45-54
Solar and Supernova Neutrinos....Pages 55-67
Neutrino Masses in Astrophysics....Pages 69-86
Source Composition of Cosmic-Rays and Models of Origin....Pages 87-101
Highlights of the 1993 ICRC on Composition and Propagation of Cosmic Rays; and on Neutrinos....Pages 103-121
Recent Results from the Fly’s Eye Experiment....Pages 123-134
The High Resolution (HiRes) Fly’s Eye Detector....Pages 135-142
The HEGRA Experiment at La Palma....Pages 143-155
The Extensive Air Shower Experiment in Tibet....Pages 157-175
Production and Acceleration of Ultra High Energy Particles by Black Holes and Strings....Pages 177-182
Cosmic Ray Nonlinear Effects in Space Plasma, 1. General Characteristics and Dynamic Galactic Halo....Pages 183-191
Cosmic Ray Nonlinear Effects in Space Plasma, 2. Dynamic Heliosphere....Pages 193-208
Pulsars: Recent Results on Their Physics and Their Dynamics....Pages 209-224
Synchrotron and Inverse Compton Radiation in Supernova Remnants....Pages 225-234
The Big Bang and the Infrared Sky as seen by Cobe....Pages 235-254
Inflation, the Top and All that....Pages 255-280
Formation of Galaxies in a Dark Matter Dominated Universe - A New Approach....Pages 281-290
New Ways in Cosmology: Part I: Friedmann-Lemaitre Model Derived from the Lyman Alpha Forest in Quasar Spectra....Pages 291-300
New Ways in Cosmology: Part II: Alternative Models for the Very Early Universe....Pages 301-310
Back Matter....Pages 313-336