Black holes : theory and observation : proceedings of the 179th W.E. Heraeus Seminar, held at Bad Honnef, Germany, 18-22 August 1997 /
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| Meeting name: | W.E. Heraeus Seminar (179th : 1997 : Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany) |
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| Imprint: | New York : Springer-Verlag, 1998. |
| Description: | xv, 519 p. : ill. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lecture notes in physics. 514 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3509006 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Black Holes: A General Introduction / Jean-Pierre Luminet
- 2. Evidence for Massive Black Holes in the Nuclei of Active Galaxies from Gamma-Ray Observations / Werner Collmar and Volker Schonfelder
- 3. First Conclusive Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way / Andreas Eckart and Reinhard Genzel
- 4. Broad Iron Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei: A Possible Test of the Kerr Metric? / Jorn Wilms, Roland Speith and Christopher S. Reynolds
- 5. Accretion and Winds Around Galactic and Extragalactic Black Holes / Sandip K. Chakrabarti
- 6. The Membrane Model of Black Holes and Applications / Norbert Straumann
- 7. Uniqueness Theorems for Black Hole Space-Times / Markus Heusler
- 8. Black Hole Hair: A Review / Dario Nunez, Hernando Quevedo and Daniel Sudarsky
- 9. Local Version of the Area Theorem (on a Question by G. 't Hooft) / Domenico Giulini
- 10. Black Holes as Exact Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations of Petrov Type D / Alberto Garcia and Alfredo Macias
- 11. On the Construction of Time-Symmetric Black Hole Initial Data / Domenico Giulini
- 12. Numerical Approach to Black Holes / Edward Seidel
- 13. Measurement Theory and General Relativity / Bahram Mashhoon
- 14. Boson Stars in the Centre of Galaxies? / Franz E. Schunck and Andrew R. Liddle
- 15. Black Holes in Two Dimensions / Yuri N. Obukhov and Friedrich W. Hehl
- 16. Black Hole Thermodynamics / Gernot Neugebauer
- 17. Gedanken Experiments in Black Hole Thermodynamics / Werner Israel
- 18. Internal Structure of Black Holes / Werner Israel
- 19. Quantum Fields near Black Holes / Andreas Wipf
- 20. Towards a Full Quantum Theory of Black Holes / Claus Kiefer
- 21. Quantum Information on the Black Hole Horizon / Gerard 't Hooft
- 22. Panel Discussion: The Definitive Proofs of the Existence of Black Holes / Werner Collmar, Norbert Straumann and Sandip K. Chakrabarti [et al.]
- 23. Exercises.
