Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference Held in Garching, Germany, 6-10 August 2001

Tales within Tales and Cutoffs within Cutoffs: What Sets the Mass Scale for Galaxies?....Pages 3-11
Galaxy Clusters: Cosmic High-Energy Laboratories to Study the Structure of Our Universe....Pages 12-23
Cooling Flows in Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 24-36
Bobble-Heated Cooling Flows....Pages 37-43
Cooling and Heating the ICM with High-Resolution Simulations....Pages 44-50
Chandra Observations of the Components of Clusters, Groups, and Galaxies and Their Interactions....Pages 51-62
XMM-Newton Observation of M87 and Its X-Ray Halo....Pages 63-68
First Results from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey....Pages 69-74
A 400 Square Degrees Serendipitous ROSAT PSPC Cluster Survey.....Pages 75-77
Magnetic Fields in Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 78-80
X-Ray Statistical Properties of the Central Cool Component in Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 81-83
Constraining Cosmological Models with the Brightest Galaxy Clusters in the X-Ray Sky....Pages 84-93
Far-Infrared and Submillimetre Lighthouses....Pages 97-107
The Most Luminous Galaxies....Pages 108-118
Resolving the Cosmic Infrared Background with ISOCAM....Pages 119-122
The Environment of Optically Very Luminous Galaxies....Pages 123-124
What Triggers Radio Galaxies?....Pages 125-127
Evolution and Clustering of Giant Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 128-134
Novel Ways to Probe the Universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts and Quasars....Pages 137-156
Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of Cosmology....Pages 157-163
Observational Tests of the Electro-Magnetic Black Hole Theory in Gamma Ray Bursts....Pages 164-180
Effect of the Pair-Annihilation on the Break Energy of GRB Spectra....Pages 181-183
The Thermal Precursors of Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 184-186
The Optical Afterglow and Host Galaxy of GRB 000926....Pages 187-190
Peak Luminosity-Spectral Lag Relation Caused by the Viewing Angle of the Collimated Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 191-193
High Frequencies in Power Spectrum of Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 194-196
The Nature of the Host Galaxy of GRB 010222....Pages 197-200
On the Power Spectrum of Gamma Ray Bursts....Pages 201-203
Lighthouses of Gravitational Wave Astronomy....Pages 207-224
Mimicking the Most Luminous Objects with Gravitational Lensing....Pages 225-238
Observing z > 4 Galaxies Through a Cosmic Lens....Pages 239-244
Numerical Study of the Lensing Deflection Angle Due to the Large-Scale Structures....Pages 245-247
Detection of Lighthouses by Gravitational Waves - on Earth and in Space....Pages 248-250
XMM-Newton AGN Science Highlights from PV and GT Observations....Pages 253-262
Where Are the Lighthouses?....Pages 263-272
X-Rays from the Jet in 3C 273: Clues from the Radio-Optical Spectra....Pages 273-273
The Size of Blazar Radio Cores from Intraday Variability....Pages 274-276
The Luminosity Function of the Host Galaxies of QSOs and BL Lac Objects....Pages 277-279
AGN at MeV Gamma-Ray Energies....Pages 280-282
A New Analysis of the BeppoSAX Observation of NGC 5548....Pages 283-285
Study of the BL Lac Object Markarian 501....Pages 286-288
Nonlinear Analysis of AGN Light Curves....Pages 289-291
X-Ray Transient Galaxies and AGN....Pages 292-294
Do Quasars Cluster on Small Scales ( $\lesssim 15h^{-1}$ Mpc)?....Pages 295-297
XMM-Newton Study of the ULIRG NGC 6240....Pages 298-300
High Energy Properties of the $\gamma$ -Ray Blazars PKS 1622-297, 3C 454.3 and CTA 102....Pages 301-303
X-Ray Variability of Blazar PKS 2155-304: Probing the Dynamics of the Jet....Pages 304-306
 $z \sim 6$ Quasars from the SDSS: Probing the End of the Dark Ages....Pages 309-315
From Darkness to Light: The First Stars in the Universe....Pages 316-322
Search for the First Quasars and Supernovae....Pages 323-328
Quasar Evolution and Star Formation History....Pages 329-331
Results from the Mount Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search....Pages 332-334
The Stellar Population of High Redshift Galaxies....Pages 335-338
Formation of First Stars and First Luminous Objects....Pages 339-342
Formation and Growth of Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 345-356
Supermassive Stars: Fact or Fiction?....Pages 357-368
Evolution and Explosion of Very Massive Primordial Stars....Pages 369-375
Super-Massive Stars: Dense Star-Gas Systems....Pages 376-378
To the Lighthouse....Pages 381-404
Why Do AGN Lighthouses Switch Off?....Pages 405-427
The Power of Jets: New Clues from Radio Circular Polarization and X-Rays....Pages 428-435
X-Ray Evidence for Supermassive Black Holes in Non-Active Galaxies:....Pages 436-442
Chandra and the Black Hole in M87....Pages 443-449
Intergalactic Magnetic Fields from Quasar Outflows....Pages 450-452
Simple Scaling and the Non-Linear Mass-Luminosity Relation in Radio Sources....Pages 453-455
Simulation of Jet Formation from Magnetized Accretion Disk Around Kerr Black Hole....Pages 456-458
Coexistence of Corona and Disk in AGN?....Pages 459-461
Radiative Effects in Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 462-464
Accretion Scenarios and Evolution of AGN....Pages 465-470
Spectral Transition for ULXs - Super-Eddington Luminosity from Rapidly Spinning Moderate Mass BHs?....Pages 473-475
X-Ray Spectral Variability of Cygnus X-1 and Simulated MHD Flow....Pages 476-478
Evaporation of the Inner Disk in Black Hole Candidates....Pages 479-481
Slim Disk Model for Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources....Pages 482-484
Luminous Hot Accretion Disks....Pages 485-487
Exploring the Intergalactic Medium with VLT/UVES....Pages 491-496
Tracing the Remnants of Powerful Quasars to Probe the IGM....Pages 497-502
Testing Models of the Ly $\alpha$ Forest....Pages 503-509
Detecting Filaments at z $\approx 3$ ....Pages 510-516
Distant Radio Galaxies in Their Environment with the 3D Spectroscopy OASIS/CFHT....Pages 517-523
Spatial Distribution of Quasars in the 2QZ 10K Release and the SDSS Early Data Release....Pages 524-530
Galaxy Distributions in Tsallis and Levy-Stable Statistical Mechanics....Pages 531-533
Cold Dark Matter Halos Must Burn....Pages 534-537
Can X-Ray Jets Be Cosmic Beacons?....Pages 538-540
Cosmic Acceleration From Effective Forces?....Pages 541-543
STIS Spectroscopy of the Ly $\alpha$ Forest Toward 3C 273 and PKS 0405-123....Pages 544-546
Cosmological Constraint from QSO Spatial Power Spectrum....Pages 547-549
Constraining Dark Matter with the Long-Term Variability of Quasars....Pages 550-552
Evolution of X-Ray Sources at High Redshift....Pages 555-567
Resolving the X-ray Spectral Paradox: XMM-Newton Spectra of Faint Sources in the Lockman Hole....Pages 568-572
Resolving the Hard X-Ray Background in the Chandra Deep Field South....Pages 573-579
Distribution of the Brightest X-Ray Sources....Pages 580-586
Mining the EIS Fields: Quasar Candidates in CDF-S Point-Source Catalogue....Pages 587-589
A Faint Quasar Survey in the Marano Field....Pages 590-592
The BTC40 Survey for High- z Quasars....Pages 593-596
The Contribution of AGN to the Far Infrared Background....Pages 597-599