The Many Scales in the Universe JENAM 2004 Astrophysics Reviews
The book gathers the invited talks to the XIII JENAM conference, organized this time by the European Astronomical Society (EAS) and the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), and hosted by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC). All branches of ast
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Edited by J.C. del Toro Iniesta, E.J. Alfaro, J.G. Gorgas, E. Salvador-Solé and H. Butcher
THE MANY SCALES IN THE UNIVERSE
The Many Scales in the Universe JENAM 2004 Astrophysics Reviews
Edited by
J.C. DEL TORO INIESTA Instituto de Astrof ísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Spain
E.J. ALFARO Instituto de Astrof ísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Spain
J.G. GORGAS Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
E. SALVADOR-SOLÉ Universitat de Barcelona, Spain and
H. BUTCHER ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
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Contents
Preface
xi
Committees
xv 1
The Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies: Open Problems Enrique Martínez-González and Patricio Vielva 1 Introduction 2 CMB temperature anisotropies 3 Polarization 4 Cosmological parameters 5 Cosmological constraints 6 Open problems Acknowledgments
2 4 8 9 11 17 20
References
21
The Gravitational Lensing Effect in Cosmology Genevieve Soucail 1 Basics of gravitational lensing 2 Strong lensing in clusters of galaxies 3 From weak lensing to masses 4 The cosmic shear or lensing by large scale structures 5 Conclusions
25 25 27 30 32 33
References
34
The PLANCK Mission J.A. Tauber 1 Introduction 2 Payload 3 Programmatic aspects 4 Scientific performance 5 Mission profile 6 Operations and data processing
35
Acknowledgments
42
References
43
35 36 36 38 40 42
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THE MANY SCALES IN THE UNIVERSE
Surveys of Extragalactic Sources with Planck G. De Zotti, C. Burigana, M. Negrello, S. Tinti, R. Ricci, L. Silva, J González-Nuevo. and L. Toffolatti 1 Introduction 2 Power spectra of foreground emissions 3 30 GHz counts 4 350 GHz counts 5 Conclusions Acknowledgments
45
References
53
New Physics in Clusters of Galaxies M. Douspis 1 Introduction 2 The concordance model 3 Dark matter 4 The amplitude of fluctuations 5 Summary
55 55 56 60 61 67
Acknowledgments
68
References
68
Emission Line Galaxies in Clusters Bianca M. Poggianti 1 Introduction 2 High redshift 3 Physical processes 4 Low redshift 5 Trends with galaxy mass and downsizing effect 6 Conclusions and speculations
71 71 72 76 77 80 80
Acknowledgments
83
References
84
Active Galactic Nuclei and Surveys: the View from the New X-ray Observatories X. Barcons 1 Introduction 2 The inner disk: Fe line diagnostics 3 The circumnuclear en
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