Download or read book Seventeenth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology written by Hans Böhringer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text, which results from aq major astrophysics convocations, treats such subjects as binary pulsars, clusters of galaxies, large-scale structures, recent highlights of HST, sources of gravitational radiation, X- and gamma-background, Machos and dark matter, the solar neutrino problem, quasar absorption lines, inflationary cosmology, particle physics and cosmology, recent highlights of GRO, galactic centers, COBE results, high redshift quasars, quantum gravity, recent highlights from ASCA and ROSAT, supernovae and cosmic rays at high energies.