Luis C. Ho

Jian-Min Wang

Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, 16-21 October, 2006

The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei

Thomas J. Maccarone

Robert P. Fender

This volume brings together contributions from many of the world's leading authorities on black hole accretion. The papers within represent part of a new movement to make use of the relative advantages of studying stellar mass and supermassive black holes, and to bring together the knowledge gained from the two approaches. The topics discussed include black hole observational and theoretical work-variability, spectroscopy, disk-jet connections, and multi-wavelength campaigns on black holes.

From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Holes on All Mass Scales

Andrew McWilliam

Michael Rauch

This Carnegie volume discusses the origin and evolution of elements in our galaxy and others.

Origin and Evolution of the Elements: Volume 4, Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series

This book was originally published in 2004. Black holes are among the most mysterious objects in the Universe. Weighing up to several billion Suns, massive black holes have long been suspected to be the central powerhouses of energetic phenomena such as quasars. Advances in astronomy have not only provided spectacular proof of this long-standing paradigm, but have revealed the unexpected result that far from being rare, exotic beasts, they inhabit the center of virtually all large galaxies. Candidate black holes have been identified in increasingly large numbers of galaxies, both inactive and active, to the point where statistical studies are possible. Fresh work has highlighted the close connection between the formation, growth, and evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. This volume contains the invited lectures from an international symposium that was held to explore this exciting theme, and is a valuable review for professional astronomers and graduate students.

Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies: Volume 1, Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series

Alan Dressler

Augustus Oemler

John S. Mulchaey

Clusters of galaxies are the largest and most massive collapsed systems in the Universe, and as such they are valuable probes of cosmological structure and galaxy evolution. The advent of extensive galaxy surveys, large ground-based facilities, space-based missions such as HST, Chandra and XMM-Newton and detailed numerical simulations makes a particularly exciting time to be involved in this field. The review papers in this volume span a comprehensive range of research in this area, including theoretical expectations for the growth of structure, survey techniques to identify clusters, metal production and the intracluster medium, galaxy evolution in the cluster environment and group-cluster connections. With contributions from leading authorities in the field, this volume is appropriate both as an introduction to this topic for physics and astronomy graduate students, and as a reference source for professional research astronomers.

Probes of Cosmological Structure and Galaxy

Clusters of Galaxies: Volume 3, Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series

Luis C. Ho

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