Quasars, AGNs and Related Research Across 2000

The proceedings of the international conference held in honor of Lodewijk Woltjer, focus on the physics, origin and space distribution of AGNs and quasars and their relationship to the environment, a very wide subject which has attracted much of Lodewijk Wolter's research interest. A number of lectures were also dedicated to reviewing the recent observational advances and those that may be attained by the introduction of new and powerful astronomical instrumentation both from the ground and from space, in recognition of the central role played by L. Woltjer in the promotion of the ESO VLT and of his involvement in shaping ESA's space programme Horizon 2000+.

Klappentext
The proceedings of the international conference held in honor or Lodewijk Woltjer, focus on the physics, origin and space distribution of AGNs and quasars and their relationship to the environment, a very wide subject which has attracted much of Lodewijk Wolter's research interest. A number of lectures were also dedicated to reviewing the recent observational advances and those that may be attained by the introduction of new and powerful astronomical instrumentation both from the ground and from space, in recognition of the central role played by L. Woltjer in the promotion of the ESO VLT and of his involvement in shaping ESA's space programme Horizon 2000+.

Inhalt
The Astrophysics and Cosmology of the 21st Century -- Active Galactic Nuclei.- The X-Ray Background and the Space Distribution of QSOs.- Relativistic Outflow in Quasars and AGN.- The Circumnuclear Environment and Early Evolution of AGN.- Advances in the Study of the IGM at High Redshifts with the VLT High Resolution Spectrograph UVES.- The Evolution of Quasars and Their Relation to Galaxies-. Why We Need Larger Radiotelescopes: The Atacama Large Millimeter Array.- AGN's Central Machine Physics from Space VLBI-. Non-Cosmological Redshifts.- Supermassive Black Holes.- Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei.- X-Ray Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei.- The Role of Ground-Based Infrared Astronomy.- What May We Learn from Multi-Wavelength Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei.- The Relationship Between Supernova Remnants and Neutron Stars.- The Future of Ground-Based Optical Interferometry.- Science and Technology of a 100m Telescope: the OWL Concept.- The Next Generation Space Telescope.- etc