Current Topics in Astrofundamental Physics

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface
• I. THE EARLY UNIVERSE
  • Cosmological Electroweak Phase Transition
  • Gravitational Repulsion Causes the Expansion of the Universe
  • Status of the Inflationary Scenario After Detection of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy
  • Experimentally Testing the Big Bang
  • Dynamics of Topological Defects in the Early Universe
  • The Classical and Quantum Cosmology with the Complex Scalar Field
  • A Non-Singular Universe?
• II. COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION
  • The Small Scale Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: Primary Fluctuations and Secondary Fluctuations
  • COBE DMR Results: Cosmic Background Anisotropies
  • Spectral Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background
  • Comparison Between COBE Preliminary Results and ULISSE Observations
  • COBE Data, Microwave Background Anisotropy on Scales 10′–2°, and Acoustic Modes of Perturbations
  • Ground-Based Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Anistropy
  • CDM Model: COBE and RATAN-600 Experiments
• III. LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE
  • Light, Gravity and Large Scale Structure
  • QSO Absorbers: Protogalactic and Intergalactic Clouds
  • The Large Scale Structure of the Universe
  • Topological Defect Models of Structure Formation after the COBE Discovery of CMB Anisotropies
  • Cosmological Dynamics from Peculiar Velocities
  • The Extragalactic Distance Scale and the Hubble Constant
  • IRAS Studies of Large-Scale Structure
• IV. GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMY
  • Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
  • Coincidence Experiments with Gravitational Wave Detectors
• V. SPECIAL LECTURES
  • Large-Scale Star-Formation. Dynamically Triggered Starbursts
  • The Gas Component in Galaxies: Atomic and Molecular Gas Distributions
  • The Internal Constitution of Black Holes
• VI. NEUTRINOS IN ASTROPHYSICS
  • Neutrinos as Fundamental Probes
  • High-Energy Neutrino Astrophysics – Candidate Sources and Modes of Detection – (Summary)
• VII. GAMMA-RAY ASTROPHYSICS
  • Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts by the BATSE Experiment on the Compton Observatory
  • A Survey of Results from the First Year of EGRET Operation
  • First Gamma-Ray Astronomy at MeV–Energies – Results from COMPTEL
  • Some Implications of γ-Ray Spectroscopy near 0.5 MeV
  • Low Energy Gamma Ray Observations with the SIGMA Telescope Aboard the Russian GRANAT Mission
  • Sources of TeV Gamma Rays
• List of Participants
• Plates of the Conference