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Klappentext This timely volume presents specially written articles by world experts at an international conference at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The goal of the meeting was to assemble physicists and astronomers working on all aspects of dark matter and theories of gravity. Topics covered include Nucleosynthesis! Hot Gas in Clusters! MACHOs! WIMPs! Rotation Curves! Gravitational Lensing Neutrinos! Large Scale Flows! Dwarf Spheroidals! Cosmological Parameters from Supernovae! the Cosmic Microwave Background! the Cosmological Constant! and Theories of Gravity. Zusammenfassung This volume presents especially written articles by a host of world experts working on all aspects of dark matter and theories of gravity. This is an indispensable collection of review articles for researchers and graduate students. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A brief history of dark matter Vera Rubin; 2. Microlensing towards the Magellanic Clouds Kailash Sahu; 3. Searching for galactic dark matter Harvey Richer; 4. Hot gas in clusters of galaxies and Omega Megan Donahue; 5. Tracking the Baryon density from the Big Bang to the present Gary Steigman; 6. Modified Newtonian dynamics and its implications Bob Sanders; 7. Cosmological parameters and quintessence from radio galaxies Ruth Daly and Eric Guerra; 8. The mass density of the Universe Neta Bahcall; 9. Growth of structure in the Universe John Peacock; 10. Cosmological implications of the most distant supernova (known) Adam Riess; 11. Dynamical probes of the Halo mass function Chris Kochanek; 12. Detection of gravitational waves from inflation Marc Kamionkowski and Andrew Jaffe; 13. Cosmological constant problems and their solution Alex Vilenkin; 14. Dark Matter and dark energy: a physicist's perspective Michael Dine.
