Currents in High-Energy Astrophysics: Nato Science Series C:, cartea 458

I. Cosmic Gamma Rays, X-Rays, and Neutrinos.- The Sky as Viewed from the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory.- Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts.- Gamma-Ray Production in the Winds of Wolf-Rayet Stars.- Origin of High-Energy X-Ray Emission from NGC 253.- Spectral and Temporal Variability in Low-Mass X-Raybinaries.- Solar and Supernova Neutrinos.- Neutrino Masses in Astrophysics.- II. Cosmic Rays.- Source Composition of Cosmic Rays and Models of Origin.- Highlights of the 1993 ICRC on Composition and Propagation of Cosmic Rays; and on Neutrinos.- Recent Results from the Fly’s Eye Experiment.- The High Resolution (Hires) Fly’s Eye Detector.- The Hegra Experiment at La Palma.- The Extensive Air Shower Experiment in Tibet.- Production and Acceleration of Ultra High Energy Particles by Black Holes and Strings.- Cosmic Ray Nonlinear Effects in Space Plasma: 1. General Characteristics and Dynamic Galactic Halo.- 2. Dynamic Heliosphere.- III. Pulsars and Supernova Remnants.- Pulsars: Recent Results on Their Physics and Their Dynamics.- Synchrotron and Inverse Compton Radiation in Supernova Remnants.- IV. Cosmology.- The Big Bang and the Infrared Sky as Seen by Cobe.- Inflation, The Top and All that.- Formation of Galaxies in a Dark Matter Dominated Universe: A New Approach.- New Ways in Cosmology: I. Friedmann-Lemaitre Model Derived from the Lyman Alpha Forest in Quasar Spectra.- II. Alternative Models for the Very Early Universe.- Participants.- Author Index.