Overview
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G. O. Abell
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University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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G. Chincarini
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University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Munchen, Germany
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Table of contents (111 chapters)
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- T. Maccacaro, I. M. Gioia
Pages 7-18
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- Demosthenes Kazanas, Richard A. Shafer
Pages 19-22
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- Roger G. Clowes, John A. Cooke, Steven M. Beard
Pages 31-31
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- L. Maraschi, D. Maccagni, E. G. Tanzi, M. Tarenghi, A. Treves
Pages 39-40
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- John E. Beckman, Mark R. Kidger
Pages 41-41
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- C. R. Subrahmanya, V. K. Kapahi
Pages 47-48
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- P. A. Wehinger, S. Wyckoff, T. Gehren, H. Spinrad
Pages 49-50
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- Jeno M. Barnothy, Madeleine F. Barnothy
Pages 55-55
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- Ann Savage, Bruce A. Peterson
Pages 57-64
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- Harry van der Laan, Peter Katgert, Rogier Windhorst, Marc Oort
Pages 73-79
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- E. B. Fomalont, K. I. Kellermann, J. V. Wall
Pages 81-81
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- Rogier A. Windhorst, Sterrewacht Leiden, Jeffrey J. Puschell, Trinh X. Thuan
Pages 83-84
About this book
Since the last International Astronomical Union Symposium that dealt with matters cosmological, there have been dramatic advances, both on the observational and theoretical fronts. Modern high-efficiency detectors have made possible extensive magnitude-limited redshift surveys, which have permitted observational cosmologists to construct three-dimensional maps of large regions of space. What seems to emerge is a distribution of matter in extensive, flat, but probably filamentary, and possibly interconnected, superclusters, serving as interstices between vast voids in space. Meanwhile, theoretical ideas that were highly speculative a few years ago have begun to be taken seriously as possibly describing conditions in the very early universe. And brand new ideas, such as that of the inflationary universe, hold promise of solving outstanding observational, theoretical, and philosophical problems in cosmology. A new look at grand unified theories and concepts of supersymmetry have brought observational and theoretical cosmologists to a common meeting ground with modern particle physicists.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of California, Los Angeles, USA
G. O. Abell
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University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
G. Chincarini
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European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Munchen, Germany
G. Chincarini