Texas in Tuscany : XXI Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Florence, Italy, 9-13 December 2002 / editors, R. Bandiera, R. Maiolino, F. Mannucci.

Includes bibliographical references and author index.

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String-inspired alternatives to standard inflation / G. Veneziano -- Cosmic microwave background anisotropies: recent measurements and their interpretation / A.N. Lasenby -- The dawn of galaxies / P. Madau and M. Kuhlen -- Results on CMB anisotropies with the archeops balloon experiment / F.-X. Désert -- First stars and their initial mass function / A. Ferrara -- Redshift of reionization: are we there yet? / N.Y. Gnedin -- LOFAR: a new radio telescope for low frequency radio observations: science and project status / H. Röttgering [and others] -- Developments in general relativity: black hole singularity and beyond / I.D. Novikov -- LISA and the gravitational wave universe / B.F. Schutz -- First results from kamLAND / A. Suzuki -- Multi-messenger astronomy: cosmic rays, gamma-rays and neutrinos / F. Halzen -- Developments in gamma-ray astronomy: a report on the non-thermal universe / P.F. Michelson -- The gamma ray large area space telescope: an astro-particle mission to explore the high energy gamma ray sky / R. Bellazzini and G. Spandre -- Ground-based large interferometers for the detection of gravitational waves / A. Brillet -- Status and perspectives of direct dark matter searches / G. Chardin -- ALMA and extragalactic astronomy / P.A. Shaver -- Gamma-ray astrophysics with AGILE / M. Tavani -- X-rays from clusters of galaxies / A.C. Fabian and S.W. Allen -- Non-thermal phenomena in galaxy clusters / L. Feretti -- The galactic center black hole / R. Genzel [and others] -- Black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei / A. Marconi -- Jets in supermassive and stellar-mass black holes / I.F. Mirabel -- The circumnuclear region of Active Galactic Nuclei / R. Maiolino -- Supernovae: ground zero and the aftermath / V. Trimble -- Evidence for an accelerating universe from type Ia supernovae / B. Leibundgut -- Shocks, outflows and bubbles: new views on pulsars and their winds / B.M. Gaensler -- Radio pulsar surveys -- wide and deep / R.N. Manchester -- Recent progress in the observations of anomalous X-ray pulsars / S. Mereghetti, G.L. Israel and L. Stella -- Thermal radiation from cooling neutron stars / G.G. Pavlov and V.E. Zavlin -- Particle dark matter: candidates and detection methods / L. Bergström -- Neutrinos in physics and astrophysics / G.G. Raffelt -- Messengers of the extreme universe / A.V. Olinto -- Very high energy gamma ray sources / F.A. Aharonian -- SuperGZK neutrinos: testing physics beyond the standard model / V. Berezinsky -- Theoretical aspects of ultra high energy cosmic rays / P. Blasi -- Unidentified EGRET sources in the galaxy / I.A. Grenier -- Recent observational results on ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays / M. Nagano.

This invaluable proceedings contains contributions from leading scientists in astrophysics, cosmology and related fields such as gravitation and elementary particles physics. It provides a general review of the status and the prospects of research in these fields for an audience of astrophysicists and physicists. The book includes both in depth reviews of various fields of relativistic astrophysics and shorter contributions on the latest results and developments in more specific areas. Some of the topics discussed are: physics of the early universe, cosmological parameters, formation of galaxies, black holes and compact objects, gravitational waves, cosmic rays, high energy radiation, dark matter, cosmic background, active galactic nuclei, supernovae and gravitational lensing.

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