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The radio galaxy Messier 87 : proceedings of a workshop held at Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, 15-19 September, 1997 /

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This book gives both a comprehensive and detailed account of the current theoretical and observational investigations of the radio galaxy M87 in the Virgo cluster. A number of introductory chapters provide a general overview, which makes the book accessible also to non-specialists in the field. The...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Röser, H.-J. (Hermann-Josef), Meisenheimer, K. (Klaus)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, 1999.
Series:Lecture notes in physics ; 530.
Subjects:
M87 (Galaxy) > Congresses.
Messier 87.
Radio galaxie.
M87 (Galaxie) > Congrès.
Deep space > M87 (Galaxy)
Galaxies.
Virgo <A>.
Ringberg <Tegernsee, 1997>.
Electronic books.
Conference proceedings.
Kongress.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • From the Contents: Introducing M 87
  • The Virgo Cluster
  • Home of M 87
  • M 87 as a Galaxy
  • M 87 as a Younger Progenitor Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster
  • The Surface Brightness Fluctuations and Globular Cluster Populations of M 87 and Its Companions
  • The Large-Scale Structure of Virgo A
  • Spectral Analysis of the Large-Scale Radio Emission of M 87
  • The Structure of the Radio Halo
  • The Outer Radio Halo: Typical of Atypical Radio Sources?- The Intracluster Medium in the X-Ray Halo of M 87
  • ASCA Observation of M 87
  • The Large Scale X-Ray Emission from M 87
  • Cluster Turbulence
  • M 87 and Cooling Flows
  • The Inner Lobes of M 87
  • Magnetic Fields and Turbulence in the Center of M 87
  • Extended Emission-Line Gas in M 87
  • Radio Observations of the M 87 Jet
  • VLA 7mm Images of the M 87 Jet
  • High Frequency Observations and Spectrum of the Jet in M 87
  • HST Observations of the M 87 Jet
  • The Synchrotron Emission From the M 87 Jet.