Ebook: Quasars, AGNs and Related Research Across 2000: Conference on the Occasion of L. Woltjer’s 70th Birthday Held at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, 3-5 May 2000

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+.

---

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+.

---

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+.
Content:
The Astrophysics and Cosmology of the 21st Century - Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 1-13
The X-Ray Background and the Space Distribution of QSOs....Pages 14-25
Relativistic Outflow in Quasars and AGN....Pages 26-34
The Circumnuclear Environment and Early Evolution of AGN....Pages 35-42
Advances in the Study of the IGM at High Redshifts with the VLT High-Resolution Spectrograph UVES....Pages 43-49
The Evolution of Quasars and Their Relation to Galaxies....Pages 50-55
Why We Need Larger Radiotelescopes: The Atacama Large Millimeter Array....Pages 56-65
AGN’s Central Machine Physics from Space VLBI....Pages 66-76
Non-cosmological Redshifts....Pages 77-95
Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 96-115
Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei....Pages 116-130
X-Ray Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 131-142
The Role of Ground-Based Infrared Astronomy....Pages 143-154
What May We Learn from Multi-Wavelength Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 155-164
The Relationship Between Supernova Remnants and Neutron Stars....Pages 165-170
The Future of Ground-Based Optical Interferometry....Pages 171-183
Science and Technology of a 100-m Telescope: The OWL Concept....Pages 184-192
The Next Generation Space Telescope....Pages 193-204
The Essential Role of Space Astronomy....Pages 205-216
After-Dinner Speech in Honour of Lodewijk Woltjer....Pages 217-220