Alain Mazure

Vincent Le Brun

For over ten years, the dark side of the universe has been headline news. Detailed studies of the rotation of spiral galaxies, and 'mirages' created by clusters of galaxies bending the light from very remote objects, have convinced astronomers of the presence of large quantities of dark (unseen) matter in the cosmos. The most striking fact is that they seem to compromise about 95% of the matter/energy content of the universe. As for ordinary matter, although we are immersed in a sea of dark particles, including primordial neutrinos and photons from fossil cosmological radiation, both we and our environment are made of ordinary, 'baryonic' matter. Authors Mazure and Le Brun present the inventory of matter, baryonic and exotic, and investigating the nature and fate of matter's twin, anti-matter. They show how technological progress has been a result of basic research, in tandem with the evolution of new ideas, and how the combined effect of these advances might help lift the cosmic veil.

In Search of the Hidden Universe

Matter, Dark Matter, and Anti-Matter

Olivier Le Fèvre

Annotation Astronomers, astrophysicists, and other scientists and researchers from laboratories, observatories, and universities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East present 60 contributions addressing clustering from low to high redshift; clustering measurements in surveys; IR and sub-mm surveys; theory and models; high-redshift clusters of galaxies; QSO absorption lines; primordial galaxies; clustering around QSOs and radio galaxies; and the physics of the intra-cluster medium. Approximately 40 poster sessions are also presented. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Vincent Le Brun

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