ASIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

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21st Century Astrophysics

CONTENTS

Preface

Section 1. Relativistic astrophysics

 

Dark matter: past, present, and future                                                                                                                                                                               1

Virginia Trimble

The cosmological constant as a unifying link                                                                                                                                                                   16

C Sivaram

 

Black hole accretion as black hole analogue                                                                                                                                                                     26

Tapas Kumar Das

 

Theory of the thermonuclear supernovae                                                                                                                                                                          51

Peter Hoflich

 

Section 2. Stellar and galactic astronomy

The coming of age of X-ray astronomy                                                                                                                                                                            70

K P Singh

 

X-ray studies of active galactic nuclei                                                                                                                                                                               90

Poshak Gandhi

 

Asymmetries in powerful extragalactic radio sources                                                                                                                                                      108

Gopal-Krishna and Paul J Willa

 

Spatio-kinematic studies of galactic planetary nebulae                                                                                                                                                    134

B G Anandarao

Recent results from the Be prototype star gamma Cassiopeiac                                                                                                                                        149

Ph Stee

Section 3. Sun and solar systems

Helioseismology                                                                                                                                                                                                               163

Eric Fossat

Intense magnetic fields in the atmosphere of the sun                                                                                                                                                       177

S S Hasan

Hall-magnetohydrodynamic turbulence                                                                                                                                                                           196

V Krishan and S M Mahajan

Magnetohydrodynamic waves in the solar corona                                                                                                                                                           213

A Saiya Narayanan and R Ramesh

Comets and scientific method                                                                                                                                                                                           224

Peter B Fellgett

Section 4. Observational techniques

From interferometers to hypertelescopes                                                                                                                                                                          228
Antoine Labeyrie

100 years of photon-counting: the quest for the perfect eye                                                                                                                                             237

Sebastien Morel and Swapan K Saha