Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Large Structures in the Universe

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Primordial Inflation and Super-Cosmology....Pages 3-28
Remarks on the Quark-Hadron Transition in the Early Universe....Pages 29-53
Mass Bounds on a Dileptonic System from Cosmology....Pages 55-75
Cosmological Constant and Friedman Universes....Pages 77-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Dark Matter Shocked Pancakes....Pages 87-99
Pancakes, Hot Gas and Microwave Distortions....Pages 101-108
Spectrum of the Cosmic Background Radiation....Pages 109-115
Is the Universe Made of Massive Neutrinos?....Pages 117-123
The Pregalactic Universe and the Formation of Large Scale Structure....Pages 125-131
Large Scale Inhomogeneities and Galaxy Statistics....Pages 133-135
Clusters of Galaxies as Indicators of Galaxy Origin....Pages 137-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Are Massive Halos Baryonic?....Pages 149-162
What is the Dark Matter? Implications for Galaxy Formation and Particle Physics....Pages 163-183
Dark Matter, Galaxies and Globular Clusters....Pages 185-195
Cosmological Constraints on Neutrinos and other “Inos” and the “Missing Light” Problem....Pages 197-214
Black Halos and Dwarf Galaxies....Pages 215-225
Mass-To-Light Ratios of Spiral Galaxies....Pages 227-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
PregäLactic Activity, Galaxy Formation and Hidden Mass....Pages 239-252
On the Nature of the First Stars....Pages 253-258
On the Formation of Pop.II Stars Via Thermal Instability....Pages 259-266
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Possible Synthesis of Deuterium and Lithium by Pregalactic Massive Stars....Pages 267-270
Deuterium and Lithium from Population III Remnants....Pages 271-277
Chemical Evolution of the Light Elements and the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis....Pages 279-290
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Structure and Evolution of Triaxial Galaxies....Pages 293-313
Are N-Body Potentials of Eddington Form?....Pages 315-325
Secular Dynamical Evolution of Galaxies....Pages 327-336
A Galaxy Distribution Function?....Pages 337-341
The Thickness of Galactic Disks....Pages 343-349
Heating of Stellar Disks by Massive Objects....Pages 351-360
The Origin of Rotation in Galaxies and Clusters....Pages 361-377
Rotation, Dissipation and Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 379-387
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
Nucleosynthesis Constraints on Early Galactic Evolution....Pages 391-399
Stochastic Star Formation in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies....Pages 401-415
The Oxygen Anomaly in Metal Poor Stars....Pages 417-435
“Liners” and Abundances in Galactic Nuclei....Pages 437-444
Back Matter....Pages 445-453