Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology Einsteins Legacy: Proceedings of the MPE/USM/MPA/ESO Joint Astronomy Conference Held in Munich, Germany, 7-11 November 2005

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Structure Formation in a Variable Dark Energy Model and Observational Constraints....Pages 3-7
Effect of the Rotation of the Universe on the Energy Levels of Hydrogen Atoms....Pages 8-10
Modified Chaplygin Gas and Accelerated Universe....Pages 11-15
Spherically Symmetric, Static Spacetimes in a Tensor-Vector-Scalar Theory....Pages 16-20
Type Ia Supernovae and Cosmology....Pages 21-28
Path and Path Deviation Equations in Kaluza-Klein Type Theories: A Brief Introduction....Pages 29-31
Studying Dark Energy with Galaxy Clusters....Pages 32-37
Astrophysical Tests of Fundamental Physics....Pages 38-42
Slow-roll Corrections to Inflation Fluctuations on a Brane....Pages 43-45
Statistical Mechanics of the SDSS Galaxy Distribution....Pages 46-49
The Second-Order Cosmological Perturbation and the Large Scale Structure Formation....Pages 50-52
Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies....Pages 53-55
Lagrangian Description for the Cosmic Fluid....Pages 56-58
Mach’s Principle and a Variable Speed of Light....Pages 59-63
A Century of Cosmology....Pages 64-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
The Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Cold Dark Matter Halos....Pages 75-78
Gravitational Wave from Realistic Stellar Collapse : Odd Parity Perturbation....Pages 79-81
Finding the Electromagnetic Counterparts of Standard Sirens....Pages 82-86
Strong-Field Tests of Gravity with the Double Pulsar....Pages 87-91
The Relativistic Time Delay of the Pulsar Radiation in the Non-Stationary Gravitational Field of the Globular Clusters....Pages 92-94
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Relativistic Bose-Einstein Condensation Model for Dark Matter and Dark Energy....Pages 95-97
Equilibrium Configurations of Degenerate Fermionic Dark Matter and the Black Hole Mass Hierarchy....Pages 98-100
Hardening in a Stellar Time-Evolving Background: Prospects for LISA ....Pages 101-105
Gravitational Waves for Odd Parity from a Collapsing Dust Ball....Pages 106-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
The Supermassive Black-Hole Mass Estimation in the Sy1.9 Galaxy SBS 0748+499....Pages 111-114
Accretion of Stellar Winds in the Galactic Centre....Pages 115-119
Winds Driven by Line Opacity near Neutron Stars and Black Holes....Pages 120-124
Inspiral of Double Black Holes in Gaseous Nuclear Disks....Pages 125-128
The Cosmogony of Super-Massive Black Holes....Pages 129-133
The Flare Activity of Sagittarius A....Pages 134-137
Mass Function of Remnant Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies....Pages 138-140
Tidal Capture by a Black Hole and Flares in Galactic Centres....Pages 141-143
Low-Rate Accretion onto Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Holes....Pages 144-148
Clumps of material orbiting a black hole and the QPOs....Pages 149-151
Multi-Scale Simulations of Merging Galaxies with Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 152-157
The Parallel Lives of Supermassive Black Holes and~their Host Galaxies....Pages 158-162
The Polarization Properties of Sgr A∗ at Submillimeter Wavelengths....Pages 163-169
Highlights of XMM-Newton Observations of Black Holes....Pages 170-173
Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 174-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
AGN and XRB Variability: Propagating-Fluctuation Models....Pages 185-188
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
The Source of Variable Optical Emission is Localized in the Jet of the Radio Galaxy 3C 390.3....Pages 189-191
XMM-Newton RGS Spectra in Type 2 Seyfert Galaxies....Pages 192-194
First Results from the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South (E-CDF-S) Survey....Pages 195-196
The Optical and X-ray Properties of AGN in COSMOS....Pages 197-201
Relativistic Iron Lines at High Redshifts....Pages 202-206
An Explanation for the Soft X-Ray Excess in Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 207-211
Extended Inverse-Compton Emission from Distant, Powerful Radio Galaxies....Pages 212-214
The Most Distant Radio Quasar as seen with the Highest Resolution....Pages 215-217
Investigating Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 with X-Ray Spectral Complexity....Pages 218-220
A Survey of Gaussian Flares in AGN....Pages 221-223
A Simple Model for Quasar Density Evolution....Pages 224-226
The Dispersion of the MIR – Hard X-ray Correlation in AGN....Pages 227-229
Gamma-Ray Probe of the QSO’s Obscured Evolution....Pages 230-232
Optical Observations of SBS1520+530 at TUG....Pages 233-235
Less is More? Are Radiogalaxies below the Fanaroff-Riley Break More Polarised on Pc-Scales?....Pages 236-238
Relativistic Effects on the Observed AGN Luminosity Distribution and Spectral Shape of Seyfert Galaxies....Pages 239-241
Nuclear Activity in Galaxies driven by Binary Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 242-246
Extragalactic Photon Background above GeV Energies: High Peaked BL Lacertae Objects or Dark Matter?....Pages 247-253
Resolving the Dust Tori in AGN with the VLT Interferometer....Pages 253-260
Iron K Lines of AGN in the X–Ray Background....Pages 261-263
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Black Hole Mass and Growth Rate and Metal Enrichment at Low and High Redshift....Pages 264-271
Is the Light Bending Effect at Work in the Core of NGC 4051?....Pages 272-275
Jet Activity in Supermassive Binary Black Holes....Pages 276-278
Statistics of Local Hard X-Ray Selected AGN: Contribution of Obscured Accretion Onto Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 279-282
3D-Models of Clumpy Tori in Seyfert Galaxies....Pages 283-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Cosmological Tests with Galaxy Clusters....Pages 289-294
Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies: Switching from Very Bright to Very Dim....Pages 295-299
Metal Enrichment of the ICM due to Ram-Pressure Stripping of Cluster Galaxies....Pages 300-302
Radio Bubbles in Clusters: Relativistic Particle Content....Pages 303-306
The XMM-Newton Distant Cluster Project....Pages 307-309
Tracing the Mass–Assembly History of Galaxies with Deep Surveys....Pages 310-313
Outbursts from Supermassive Black Holes and their Impacts on the Hot Gas in Early-Type Galaxies, Groups and Clusters....Pages 314-319
Tracing Gas Motions in the Centaurus Cluster....Pages 320-322
Simulations of Galactic Winds and Starbursts in Galaxy Clusters....Pages 323-325
The ARCRAIDER Project: A Unique Sample of X-Ray Bright, Massive Gravitational Lensing Galaxy Clusters....Pages 326-330
APEX-SZ: A Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Galaxy Cluster Survey....Pages 331-333
Detecting Virialization Shocks Around Galaxy Clusters Through the SZ Effect....Pages 334-336
Numerical Simulations of Metal Enrichment and Mergers in Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 337-339
Turbulence in Galaxy Clusters: Impact ontheAbundance Profiles....Pages 340-343
Studying the Nature of Dark Energy with Galaxy Clusters....Pages 344-348
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Hydrodynamical Simulations of Cluster Formation withCentral AGN Heating....Pages 349-352
Metal Enrichment Processes in the Intra-Cluster Medium....Pages 353-357
Ultraviolet-Bright, High-Redshift ULIRGS....Pages 358-362
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
The Correlation between νFν Peak Energy and radiated Energy in Gamma–Ray Bursts....Pages 365-370
Particle Acceleration and Radiative Losses at Relativistic Shocks....Pages 371-374
The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission: First Results....Pages 375-383
The Afterglow of the Gamma-Ray Burst 050502a: First Case of an Early (<1hr) Multi–Colour Detection....Pages 384-387
Kinetic Plasma Simulations of GRB Fireball Collisions: Synchrotron Features....Pages 388-390
Relativistic Jet Propagation in the Progenitor of GRBs....Pages 391-393
Gravitational Collapse and Neutrino Emission of Population III Massive Stars....Pages 394-398
Theoretical Interpretation of GRB 031203 and URCA-3....Pages 399-401
Baryonic Loading and e + e - Rate Equation in GRB Sources....Pages 402-406
Gamma-ray Bursts from X-ray Binaries....Pages 407-410
Front Matter....Pages 411-411
Accretion and Relativistic Jets in Galactic Microquasars....Pages 413-417
Spectral and Variability Properties of LS 5039 from Radio to very High-Energy Gamma-Rays....Pages 418-421
30 Years Blandford-Znajek Process – Are Black Hole Jets Driven by the Ergosphere ?....Pages 422-427
Radiative Acceleration and Collimation of Jets from TCAF Discs....Pages 428-430
Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei: Importance of Magnetic Fields....Pages 431-433
String Mechanism for Relativistic Jet Formation....Pages 434-436
Shock Location in Funnel Flows onto Magnetized Neutron Stars....Pages 437-440
Front Matter....Pages 411-411
General Relativistic Simulation of Jet Formation in Kerr Black Hole Magnetosphere....Pages 441-444
Radio Jets as Decelerating Relativistic Flows....Pages 445-448
Extragalactic Relativistic Jets and Nuclear Regions in Galaxies....Pages 449-453
Modeling the Relativistic Jets in SS 433 Using Chandra X-ray Spectroscopy....Pages 454-458
General Relativistic MHD Simulations of Relativistic Jets from a Rotating Black Hole Magnetosphere....Pages 459-461
Particle Acceleration with Weibel Instability....Pages 462-464
Analytical and Numerical Studies of Fluid Instabilities in Relativistic Jets....Pages 465-467
Forced Oscillations in Relativistic Accretion Disks and QPOs....Pages 468-470
QPOs: Einstein’s Gravity Non-Linear Resonances....Pages 471-476
Cosmic-Ray Acceleration and Viscosity....Pages 477-479
Gamma-Ray Emission from Microquasars: Leptonic vs. Hadronic Models....Pages 480-482
Magnetized Supernovae and Pulsar Recoils....Pages 483-486
Jet Deceleration: the Case of PKS 1136-135....Pages 487-489
Some Conclusions on The Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars in Atoll and Z Sources....Pages 490-492
Front Matter....Pages 493-493
Einstein’s Legacy: a Summary....Pages 495-499
Back Matter....Pages 501-504