Plasma Astrophysics and Cosmology - by IEEE International Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics and Cosmology (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Preface; A.L. Peratt. Introduction to plasma astrophysics and cosmology; A.L. Peratt. The redshift revisited; A.K.T. Assis, M.C.D. Neves. Redshift quantization - A review; W.G. Tifft. Determination of true velocity dispersion and the dark matter problem in clusters of galaxies; A. Ghosh. Low correlation between redshift and intrinsic brightness for quasars and galaxies in a De Sitter universe; J.B. Miller, T.E. Miller. Intergalactic radio absorption and the COBE data; E.J. Lerner. A window on the plasma universe: the very large array; K.R. Healy. Intergalactic plasma; G. Reber. Plasma and the universe: large scale dynamics, filamentation, and radiation; A.L. Peratt. The pillars of cosmology: a short history and assessment; J. Kanipe. Gravitation, global four-momentum conservation and the strong equivalence principle; D.F. Roscoe. A model cosmology based on gravity-electromagnetism unification; J.E. Brandenburg. On the problem of big bang nucleosynthesis; E.J. Lerner. Observational limits on intergalactic matter; B. Wszolek. Cluster-scale magnetic fields; T. Venturi, G. Giovannini. Rotation velocity and neutral hydrogen distribution dependency on magnetic field strength in spiral galaxies; C.M. Snell, A.L. Peratt. How can spirals persist? C.K. Whitney. Interstellar neutral hydrogen filaments at high galactic latitudes and the Bennett Pinch; G.L. Verschuur. Protostar formation under two current carrying gas filaments collision; B. Chargeishvili, J.-I. Sakai. Evolution of current loops in space; S.J. Goldstein, Jr. Radiation properties of pulsar magnetospheres: observation, theory, and experiment; K.R. Healy, A.L. Peratt. Titus-Bode series, galaxy group redshift differences calculated from roots of theBesel equation; D.R. Wells. Solar wind-magnetosphere interaction as simulated by a 3-D EM particle code; K.-I. Nishikawa, et al. Recollections of Max Born; E. Wolf.