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P. A. Shaver L. DiLella A. Gimenez (Eds.)
Astronomy,Cosmology andFundamental Physics
Proceedings of the ESO/CERN/ESASymposium Held in Garching, Germany,4-7 March 2002
Springer
Contents
Cosmic Microwave Background FluctuationsS. Masi, P.A.R. Ade, P. de Bernardis, J.J. Bock, J.R. Bond, J. Borrill,A. Boscaleri, K. Coble, C.R. Contaldi, B.P. Crill, G. De Troia,P. Ferreira, K. Ganga, M. Giacometti, E. Hivon, V. V. Hristov,A. Iacoangeli, A.H. Jaffe, W.C. Jones, A.E. Lange, L. Martinis,P. Mason, P.D. Mauskopf, A. Melchiorri, T. Montroy, F. Nati, P. Natoli,C.B. Netterfield, E. Pascale, F. Piacentini, D. Pogosyan, G. Polenta,F. Pongetti, S. Prunet, G. Romeo, J.E. Ruhl, F. Scaramuzzi 1
Evidence for an Accelerating Universe from Type la SupernovaeB. Leibundgut . 13
Cosmological Weak LensingY. Mellier, L. van Waerbeke, F. Bernardeau, I. Tereno 25
Constraining Cosmological Parameterswith Observations of Galaxy ClustersH. Bohringer, P. Schuecker, L. Guzzo, C.A. Collins 35
First Light and the Reionization of the UniverseP. Madau 39
The State of the Universe: Cosmological Parameters 2002L.M. Krauss 50
Cosmological Constant Problems and Their SolutionsA. Vilenkin 70
Searches for Dark MatterC. Too 79
Neutrino Masses and OscillationsP. Hernandez 91
The Standard Model of Particle Physics:Status and Low-Energy TestsA. Pich 105
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High-Energy Tests of the Standard Model and BeyondF. Gianotti 117
Astroparticle Physics with the L3+C DetectorP. Le Coultre and LS collaboration 139
Beyond the Standard ModelJ. Ellis 143
Alpha: A Constant That Is Not a Constant?G. Fiorentini, B. Ricci 165
Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Most Powerful Cosmic ExplosionsE.P.J. van den Heuvel 174
Astrophysics with High Energy Gamma RaysH.J. VSlk 194
Cosmic Rays at the Highest EnergiesA.A. Watson 216
High-Energy Neutrinos from Cosmic RaysF. Halzen 227
Unravelling the X-Ray BackgroundG. Hasinger , 243
What Do We Really Know About Neutron Stars?L. Woltjer 253
Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy CentersR. Bender, J. Kormendy 262
The Center of the Milky WayA. Eckart 267
Sources of Gravitational WavesB.F. Schutz 271
Status and Prospect of Laser-Interferometric Gravitational WaveAstronomyK. Danzmann, A. Rudiger 282
Fundamental Physics with Space ExperimentsS. Vitale 303
Astro Particle Physics from SpaceR. Battiston 316
Stars and Fundamental PhysicsG.G. Raffelt 334
Contents IX
First Science Results from the VLT InterferometerF. Paresce, A. Glindemann, P. Kervella, A. Richichi, M. Schoeller,M. Tarenghi, R. van Boekel, M. Wittkowski 343
Formation of Planetary SystemsE.F. van Dishoeck 347
Extrasolar Planetary SystemsM. Mayor, N. C. Santos 359
Towards the Detection of Earth-Like Extra-Solar PlanetsM.A.C. Perryman 371
Future Perspectives at CERNJ. Ellis 381
Future Perspectives at ESOC. Cesarsky 397
Poster Papers
Inflationary Perturbations from Non-Scale Invariant PotentialsJ. Adams, B. Cresswell 415
QSO Absorption Lines as a Cosmological Probe:Exploring the Lyman Forest with VLT/UVESS. Bianchi, S. Cristiani, T.-S. Kim, S. D'Odorico 417
Higher Order Corrections to Lensing Parametersfor Extended Gravitational LensesS. Capozziello, V. Re 419
Testing Cosmological Models with Negative PressureA. Cappi 421
Determination of the Hubble Constantfrom Quadruply Imaged Gravitational Lens SystemsV.F. Cardone, S. Capozziello, V. Re, E. Piedipalumbo 423
The Sky Polarization Observatory (SPOrt) ProgrammeE. Carretti, S. Cortiglioni, G. Bernardi, S. Cecchini, C. Macculi,C. Sbarra, J. Monari, A. Orfei, S. Poppi, G. Boella, S. Bonometto,M. Gervasi, G. Sironi, M. Zannoni, M. Tucci, M. Baralis, O.A. Peverini,R. Tascone, R. Fabbri, L. Nicastro, K.W. Ng, V.A. Razin, E.N. Vinyajkin,M. V. Sazhin, LA. Strukov '. 425
EUSO — Extreme Universe Space Observatory0. Catalano, M.C. Maccarone, A. Santangelo, L. Scarsi 427
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Hubble Constant or Hubble Variable H?:Why Is the "Exact" H Not Discovered?A. Chechelnitsky 429
The NASA - MIDEX Swift MissionG. Chincarini, for the Swift Team 432
The Latest on the Database of Galaxies at High RedshiftsD. de Mello, E.P.G. Johansson, P. Markstrom 434
Serendipitous Detection of Radio Pulses from Evaporating BlackHoles, GRBs and Extragalactic Supernova Using SETI@homeP. Demorest, A. Golden, E. Korpela, D. Werthimer, R. Ekers 436
High Energy Photon Flux Predictionfrom Neutralino Annihilation in M 31A. Falvard, E. Giraud, A. Jacholkowska, K. Jedamzik, J. Lavalle,G. Moultaka, E. Nuss, F. Piron, P. Salati, M. Sapinski, R. Taillet 438
A New Unifying Field Spacetime StructureB. Feigler, M. Joseph 441
Visualization of Gravitational LensesF. Frutos-Alfaro 444
Evolution of Density Fluctuations in a UniverseDominated by sw(2)-Valued Yang-Mills FieldsA. Fuzfa, D. Lambert 446
High Energy Photon Flux Prediction from NeutralinoAnnihilation in the Globular Cluster Palomar 13E. Giraud, G. Meylan, M. Sapinski, A. Falvard, A. Jacholkowska,K. Jedamzik, J. Lavalle, E. Nuss, G. Moultaka, F. Piron, P. Salati,R. Taillet 448
Connections Between Quantum Theory and Cosmology:An Unconventional ViewT. Gornitz 450
The Prototype Synchrotron Radiation DetectorO. Grimm 453
Cosmic Shear from STIS Pure Parallels - II. AnalysisH. Hammerle, J.-M. Miralles, P. Schneider, T. Erben, R.A.E. Fosbury,W. Freudling, N. Pirzkal, S.D.M. White 455
Radio Ice Cherenkov ExperimentP. Harris for the RICE Collaboration 457
Contents XI
First High-Resolution Observations of the Lyman a Forestat 0.9 < z < 1.7E. Janknecht, R. Baade, D. Reimers 459
Finding Atmospheres of Extra-Solar Planetsin High-Dispersion Near-Infrared SpectraH. U. Kaufl 461
A New X-Ray Probe for Supermassive Black Holesin Non-Active GalaxiesS. Komossa, D. Xu, J. Wei 463
EUSO: From Raw Data to Scientific ResultsM.C. Maccarone, 0. Catalano, A. Santangelo, L. Scarsi 465
Cosmic Alignment Towards the Radio Einstein RingPKS 1830-211G. Meylan, F. Courbin, J.-P. Kneib, C. Lidman 467
Gauge-Ready Formulation of the Cosmological Kinetic Theoryand CMBR AnisotropyH. Noh 469
APPLES: A Parallel Slitless Imaging Survey for ACSA. Pasquali, N. Pirzkal, J.R. Walsh, J.E. Rhoads, S. Malhotra,Z. Tsvetanov, and the APPLES Team 471
Radiative Effects in the Modelling of Accretiononto Stellar MagnetospheresN. Pogorelov, I. Kryukov, U. Anzer, G. Bisnovatyi-Kogan, G. Borner . . . . 473
The Dynamic Steady State Universe:A Qualitative Unification ModelC. Ranzan 475
ARCHEOPS: A Large Sky Coverage Balloon-Borne Experimentfor Mapping the Cosmic Microwave BackgroundC. Renault, for the Archeops collaboration 477
The European Ultra-High Precision Stellar PhotometryRoad Map for Asteroseismology and Planet Finding/. Roxburgh, F. Favata, A. Baglin, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard 479
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BaR-SPOrt: Balloon-Borne Radiometersfor Sky Polarization ObservationsC. Sbarra, S. Cortiglioni, G. Bernardi, E. Carretti, S. Cecchini,C. Macculi, G. Ventura, M. Baralis, O. Peverini, R. Tascone, G. Boella,S. Bonometto, M. Gervasi, G. Sironi, M. Tucci, M. Zannoni, V. Natale,R. Nesti, R. Fabbri, J. Monari, S. Poppi, L. Nicastro, R. Di Raffaele,A. Boscaleri, E. Pascale, P. de Bernardis, M. De Petris, S. Masi,M. V. Sazhin, E.N. Vinyajkin 481
Effects of Gravitational Lensing on the Hubble Diagramin Quintessence CosmologyM. Sereno 483
Problems of Cosmological Darwinian Selectionand the Origin of Habitable UniversesR. Vaas 485
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis of Lithium-7and the Baryon Density of the UniverseE. Vangioni-Flam, A. Coc, M. Casse 487
Introducing Astronomical Topicsat the University of Cooperative EducationH. Weghorn 489
Photometric Redshifts Using Submm WavelengthsT. Wiklind 491
Practical Problems with the Light Curves of GRB AfterglowsA. Zeh, S. Klose 493
Dark Matter in Dwarf Elliptical GalaxiesW. W. Zeilinger, H. Dejonghe, S. De Rijcke, G.K.T. Hau 495
Cosmological Test of Brane ModelsH. Ziaeepour 497
Author Index 499