Exploring the Cosmic Frontier

Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century

By: A. Lobanov, Andrei Lobanov (Editor), J. a. Zensus (Editor)

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In the coming decades, astrophysical science will benefit enormously from the construction and operation of several major international ground- and space based facilities, such as ALMA, Herschel/Planck, and SKA in the far infrared to radio band, Extremely Large Telescopes, JWST and GAIA in the optical to near infrared regime, XEUS and Constellation-X in the X-ray, and GLAST in the Gamma-ray regime. These and other new instruments will have a major impact in a wide range of scientific topics including the cosmological epoch of reionization, galactic dynamics and nuclear activity, stellar astronomy, extra-solar planets, gamma-ray bursts, X-ray binaries, and many others.

On May 18-21, 2004, the Max-Planck-Society's Harnack-Haus in Dahlem, Berlin hosted the international symposium "Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century". The symposium in Berlin was dedicated to exploring the complementarity and synergies between different branches of astrophysical research, by presenting and discussing the fundamental scientific problems that will be addressed by major future astrophysical facilities in the next few decades.

This book contains 70 papers from the meeting and is intended to give a lasting account of a snapshot of an evolving scientific discourse and interaction throughout our field of research.

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"This collection of 70 papers is the proceedings of a symposium by the same name, hosted by the Max-Plank-Society in Berlin in May 2004. ... Many of the papers have good lists of references, including web sites. ... the assumed familiarity of the specific subjects and the technical level of the papers will confine readership to graduate students and researchers in astrophysical and related fields." (John A Kennewell, Australian Physics, Vol. 44 (2), 2007)

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Future Astrophysical Facilities
Radio Astronomy Facilities	p. 3
Future Optical and Near-Infrared Facilities	p. 19
The new 40-m Radiotelescope of OAN in Yebes	p. 35
Design of the Near-term Next Generation Space-VLBI Mission VSOP-2	p. 37
Synergies Between SKA and Other Future Telescopes	p. 39
The Korean VLBI Network Project	p. 41
Frequency Protection for the 21st Century	p. 43
SCUBA-2: A Large-Format CCD-Style Imager for Submillimeter Astronomy	p. 45
The Large Millimeter Telescope	p. 47
An Overview of the Submillimeter Array Telescope	p. 49
Tunable Heterodyne Receivers - A Promising Outlook for Future Mid-Infrared Interferometry	p. 51
ESPRIT - Exploratory Submillimeter sPace Radio Interferometric Telescope	p. 53
Fizeau Interferometry with the LBT Astronomy on the Way to ELTs	p. 55
MUSE: 3D Spectroscopy with Large Telescopes	p. 57
Layer-Oriented MCAO Projects for 8-m Class Telescopes and Possible Scientific Outcome	p. 59
Prospects for an Extremely Large Synthesis Array	p. 61
Interferometry in the Near-Infrared: 1 Mas Resulution at the Wavelength of 1 Micron	p. 63
Electrical and Geometrical Characterization of the Silicon Flight Sensors of the GLAST/LAT Tracking System	p. 65
Environmental Testing of the GLAST Tracker Subsystem	p. 67
The Potential of a Large Cherenkov Array for Supersymmetry and Cosmology	p. 69
MAGIC: First Observational Results and Perspectives for Future Developments	p. 71
LOBSTER - Astrophysics with Lobster Eye Telescopes	p. 73
Novel Light-Weight X-ray Optics for future X-ray Telescopes	p. 75
Science Prospects for the GLAST LAT	p. 77
Astrophysics with Astronomical Plate Archives	p. 79
Virtual Observatories and Access to Radio Interferometry Data	p. 81
Fundamental Physics and Cosmology
Fundamental Physics with the SKA: Strong-Field Tests of Gravity Using Pulsars and Black Holes	p. 87
Measuring Variations in the Fundamental Constants with the SKA	p. 91
ELT Observations of Supernovae at the Edge of the Universe	p. 95
SKA and the Magnetic Universe	p. 103
SSF as a Manifestation of Protoobjects in the Dark Ages Epoch: Theory and Experiment	p. 109
Cosmic Ray Astrophysics with AMS-02	p. 111
Studying the Nature of Dark Energy with Current and Future Instruments	p. 113
Project ASTRAL: All-sky Space Telescope to Record Afterglow Locations	p. 115
High-redshift Universe, Galaxies, Galaxy Evolution
Overview of the Science Case for a 50-100m Extremely Large Telescope	p. 121
Distant Galaxies and Extremely Large Telescopes	p. 125
Extragalactic Science with the Allen Telescope Array	p. 129
Spectral Aging in the Relic Radio Galaxy B2 0924+30	p. 133
Study of Extragalactic Sources with Extended Radio Emission	p. 135
The B3 VLA Sample at Low Frequencies: Results from a Survey at 74 MHz	p. 137
Modeling the Faint Radio Population: The NanoJY Radio Sky	p. 139
Radio View of Merging Clusters of Galaxies	p. 141
AGN and Compact Objects
Active Galactic Nuclei at the Crossroads of Astrophysics	p. 147
New Frontiers in AGN Astrophysics: The X-ray Perspective	p. 163
Deep Radio Source Surveys with the SKA	p. 167
e-VLBI...a Wide-field Imaging Instrument with Milliarcsecond Resolution & Microjy Sensitivity	p. 171
Results from Observations of AGNs with the H.E.S.S. Telescope System and Future Plans	p. 175
The Innermost Regions of AGN with Future mm-VLBI	p. 179
Probing the Gravitational Redshift Effect from the Relativistic Jets of Compact AGN	p. 181
VLBA Surveys and Preparation of the "RADIOASTRON" Mission	p. 183
The Radio Properties of Low Power BL Lacs	p. 185
Probes of Jet-Disk Coupling in AGN from Combined VLBI and X-Ray Observations	p. 187
Towards the Event Horizon: High Resolution VLBI Imaging of Nuclei of Active Galaxies	p. 189
Two-Component Model for the AGN Broad Line Region	p. 191
ISM and Formation and Evolution of Stars
The Physics and Chemistry of High Mass Star Formation	p. 197
Building Complex Molecules During Star- and Planet Formation	p. 201
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