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