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Title: |
Frontiers of Astrophysics: A Celebration of NRAO's 50th Anniversary
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Volume: |
395
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Year: |
2008
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Editors: |
Bridle, Alan H.; Condon, James J.; Hunt, Gareth C.
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Synopsis: |
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the NRAO hosted a science symposium highlighting the most important questions that can be addressed by astronomers. The universe is a unique laboratory yielding historical data on the creation of the universe, the formation of the first stars and galaxies, the production of the elements, the assembly of molecules and the building blocks of life in interstellar space, how and where planets form, and possible changes in fundamental physical constants on cosmological time scales. This “laboratory” contains black holes, neutron stars, and gravitational radiation for studying extreme gravity and extremely dense matter. It is filled with the mysterious dark energy and dark matter that control the expansion and destiny of the universe, and whole nature is a critical unsolved problem for physics. This symposium brought together leading scientists to address the most important questions in these areas, the major contributions to astronomy enabled by NRAO instruments—past, present, and future—and to suggest future directions for research involving radio observations and techniques.
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978-1-58381-660-8
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Authors |
Cover |
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Volume 395 Cover |
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Bridle, A.H.; Condon, J.J.; Hunt, G.C. |
Front Matter |
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Volume 395 Front Matter |
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Bridle, A.H.; Condon, J.J.; Hunt, G.C. |
Conference Photograph |
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Conference Photograph |
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Bridle, A.H.; Condon, J.J.; Hunt, G.C. |
Part 1. Introduction |
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NRAO at 50! |
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Lo, K.Y. |
Part 2. Early Universe |
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Cosmic Microwave Background Observations in the Era of Precision Cosmology |
21 |
Readhead, A. |
The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination |
35 |
Sunyaev, R.A.; Chluba, J. |
First Light – Centimeter/Millimeter Observations |
49 |
Walter, F.; Carilli, C. |
The First Billion Years: Probing Reionization as well as the Inflationary Initial Conditions |
59 |
Loeb, A. |
Galaxies at High Redshift and Reionization |
73 |
Bunker, A.; Stanway, E.; Ellis, R.; Lacy, M.; McMahon, R.; Eyles, L.; Stark, D.; Chiu, K. |
Part 3. Galaxies, Star Formation, and the Local Universe |
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The Black Hole Accretion Disk in NGC4258: One of Nature’s Most Beautiful Dynamical Systems |
87 |
Moran, J. |
Investigating Dark Energy with Observations of H2O Megamasers |
103 |
Braatz, J.A.; Reid, M.J.; Greenhill, L.J.; Condon, J.J.; Lo, K.Y.; Henkel, C.; Gugliucci, N.E.; Hao, L. |
Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Luminous IR Galaxies and QSO Hosts |
113 |
Evans, A.S. |
HI Cosmology in the Local Universe with ALFALFA |
125 |
Haynes, M.P. |
Mapping Mass in the Local Universe |
137 |
Masters, K.L. |
Radio Continuum Surveys |
147 |
Fomalont, E.B. |
AGN and the Faint Radio Population |
157 |
Barger, A.J. |
Part 4. Milky Way — Stars, Interstellar Medium, and Planets |
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Extreme Neutron Stars |
171 |
Stairs, I.H. |
Discovering CO and Other Interstellar Molecules with the NRAO 36 Foot Antenna |
183 |
Wilson, R.W. |
Disks, Young Stars, and Radio Waves: The Quest for Forming Planetary Systems |
193 |
Chandler, C.J.; Shepherd, D.S. |
The Search for Rocky Planets Around the Nearest Stars |
203 |
Butler, R.P. |
SETI - The Early Days and Now |
213 |
Drake, F. |
Axes of Discovery: The Time Domain and the Radio Synoptic Survey Telescope |
225 |
Cordes, J.M. |
Part 5. Astrophysics |
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The New Science of Gravitational Waves |
239 |
Hogan, C.J. |
Strong-field Gravity with the Double Pulsar and in the Future |
249 |
Kramer, M. |
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy with a Pulsar Timing Array |
261 |
Backer, D.C.; Demorest, P.B. |
Three-dimensional Nanosecond Radio Imaging of Cosmic Rays and Other Things |
271 |
Falcke, H. |
M31 and a Brief History of Dark Matter |
283 |
Roberts, M.S. |
The Search for Axions: Non-Conventional Radio Astronomy |
289 |
Bradley, R.F. |
Probing Fundamental-Constant Evolution with Radio Spectroscopy |
297 |
Kanekar, N. |
Part 6. NRAO: Origins, History, and Future |
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The Origins and Early History of the NRAO |
311 |
Heeschen, D.S. |
ZAPPED! . . . by Hostile Space Aliens! |
323 |
Condon, J.J. |
Technology for the Next Fifty Years |
335 |
Weinreb, S. |
NRAO: The Next Fifty Years |
347 |
Blandford, R. |
Part 7. Abstracts of Posters |
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Coordinated Science with the VLBA and the VLTI |
361 |
Boboltz, D.A.; Wittkowski, M. |
CARMA: Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy |
362 |
Bock, D.C.-J.; Carpenter, J.M. |
Resonance Rings in Early SB Galaxies: Estimating Bar Strength, Disk Star-Formation, Mass Density and M/L |
363 |
Byrd, G.; Freeman, T.; Buta, R. |
VIVA (VLA Imaging of Virgo in Atomic gas): HI Stripping in Virgo Galaxies |
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Chung, A.; van Gorkom, J.H.; Crowl, H.; Kenney, J.D.P.; Vollmer, B. |
ASTE and APEX CO(J = 3 → 2) Detection in the Southern Interacting Pair NGC1326A–B |
365 |
Cortés, J.R.; Cortés, P.C.; Hardy, E. |
The Proper Motion of 4C 39.25 Revisited |
366 |
Fey, A.L.; Boboltz, D.A.; Ojha, R. |
Radio Properties of the Merging Cluster Complex A3128/A3125 |
367 |
Fleenor, M.C.; Johnston-Hollitt, M.; Rose, J.A.; Christiansen, W.A.; Hunstead, R.W. |
Towards the Long Wavelength Array |
368 |
Kassim, N.E.; Erickson, W.C. |
HI Observations of the Virgo Cluster: Catalog Statistics, Optically Inert Detections, and HI Streams |
369 |
Kent, B.R. |
The VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS) |
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Lane, W.M.; Cohen, A.S.; Cotton, W.D.; Perley, R.A.; Condon, J.J.; Lazio, T.J.W.; Kassim, N.E.; Erickson, W.C. |
Past, Present, and Future NRAO Spacecraft Tracking |
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Langston, G.; MIT/Lincoln Laboratory Collaboration |
Milliarcsecond Observations of Microarcsecond AGN |
372 |
Lazio, J.; Ojha, R.; Fey, A.L.; Kedziora-Chudczer, L.; Cordes, J.M.; Jauncey, D.L.; Lovell, J.E. |
A Search for the Polarization of Spinning Dust in the Dark Cloud LDN 1622 |
373 |
Mason, B.; Robishaw, T.; Finkbeiner, D. |
First Light with MUSTANG: A 90 GHz Bolometer Array for the Green Bank Telescope |
374 |
Mason, B.; Dicker, S.; Korngut, P.; Benford, D.; Chervenak, J.; Devlin, M.; Figueroa, E.; Forgione, J.; Irwin, K.; Mello, M.; Maher, S.; Moseley, H.; Norrod, R.; Staghun, J.; White, S. |
Redshift Studies of Scintillating and Non-scintillating Extragalactic Radio Sources: Direct Detection of the Ionized Intergalactic Medium? |
375 |
Ojha, R.; Pursimo, T.; Jauncey, D.L.; Lovell, J.E.; Macquart, J.-P.; Dutka, M.S. |
Star-Formation History and ISM Feedback in Nearby Galaxies: A VLA Large Project |
376 |
Ott, J.; Skillman, E.; Dalcanton, J.; Walter, F.; West, A.; Koribalski, B. |
Observations and Chemical Modelling of Edge Cloud 2 |
377 |
Ruffle, P.M.E.; Millar, T.J.; Roberts, H.; Lubowich, D.A.; Henkel, C.; Pasachoff, J.M.; Brammer, G. |
From Molecular Oxygen to Primordial Molecules with the Odin Satellite |
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Persson, C.; Encrenaz, P.; Hjalmarson, Å .; Sandqvist, Aa.; Odin Team |
On the Existence of an Observable Intrinsic Magnetic Moment Inside the Central Compact Object Within the Quasar Q0957+561 |
379 |
Schild, R.E.; Leiter, D.J.; Robertson, S.L. |
WHIM Environment of Giant Radio Galaxies |
380 |
Subrahmanyan, R.; Saripalli, L.; Safouris, V.; Hunstead, R.W. |
Radio Source Counts at 30 GHz |
381 |
Weintraub, L.; Mason, B.; Sievers, J.; Pearson, T.J.; Readhead, A.C.S. |
Observing the Future: Simulating Next-Generation Radio Telescopes with MeqTrees |
382 |
Willis, A.G. |
Theoretical Modeling and Observations of FIR/submm/mm Line Emission of Nearby Starburst Galaxies |
383 |
Yao, L.; Seaquist, E.R. |
The SMA Observations of CO Line Emission from Arp 220: Super Clusters of Giant Molecular Clouds in the Merging Nuclei |
384 |
Zhao, J.-H.; An, T. |
Back Matter |
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Volume 395 Back Matter |
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Bridle, A.H.; Condon, J.J.; Hunt, G.C. |
Photographs |
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Volume 395 Photographs |
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Bridle, A.H.; Condon, J.J.; Hunt, G.C. |
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