Table of Contents


Prefacexi

Participant Listxiii


Part I. Talks

Section A. Space Missions and Observations
The Next Generation of High-energy Astrophysics Observatories (Invited) 5
S. S. Holt
Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (Invited) 15
R. P. Lin
Recent Observations of X-ray Emission from Galactic Binary Neutron
Stars (Invited) 27
J. Swank
Observation of Black Holes in X-ray Binaries (Invited)37
Y. Tanaka
X-ray Emission Characteristics of Pulsars (Invited)49
W. Becker
The Constellation X-ray Mission (Invited)61
N. E. White and H. Tananbaum
X-ray Emission as an Indicator of Cosmic-ray Acceleration in Supernova
Remnants (Invited) 69
R. Petre, G. E. Allen, U. Hwang, J. W. Keohane, and E. V. Gotthelf
Recent Satellite Observations of X-ray Emission from AGN (Invited) 77
H. Kunieda

Section B. High-Energy Phenomena in and Emission from
Astrophysical Plasmas
Neutron Stars in Supernova Remnants (Invited)91
F. Pacini
Multiwavelength Diagnostics of Pulsar Plasmas (Invited)95
R. W. Romani
Thermal Radiation from Isolated Neutron Stars (Invited)103
G. G. Pavlov and V. E. Zavlin
Jets from Compact Objects (Invited)113
H. C. Spruit
Gamma-rays from Solar Flares (Invited)123
R. Ramaty and N. Mandzhavidze
The Scaling of Solar Flare Hard X-ray Emission to Other Flaring Objects
in the Universe 133
P. C. H. Martens
High-energy Emission from Supernovae and Remnants (Invited) 135
R. A. Chevalier
X/gamma-rays from Active Galactic Nuclei (Invited)143
R. Svensson
Radiative Processes and Geometry of Spectral States of Black-hole
Binaries (Invited) 153
A. A. Zdziarski
Gamma-ray Emission from Pulsar Outer Magnetospheres (Invited) 171
K. Hirotani
Population Synthesis of Old Neutron Stars in the Galaxy (Invited) 181
S. B. Popov, M. Colpi, A. Treves, R. Turolla, V. M. Lipunov, and M. E.
Prokhorov
Properties of Nonthermal Emission in Plerions (Invited)189
R. Bandiera
The Impact of Cooling Flows in Clusters of Galaxies (Invited) 199
S. W. Allen
Ultrasoft Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies: An Extreme of Accretion onto
Supermassive Black Holes 207
W. N. Brandt

Section C. Effects of Magnetic Fields on Highly Energetic
Processes and Emission from Astrophysical Plasmas
Interaction of Gravitationally Contracting Gas Having Angular Momen-
tum with Magnetic Field, and the Acceleration and Collimation of
Astrophysical Jets (Invited) 213
Y. Uchida, M. Nakamura, T. Miyagoshi, T. Kobayashi, T. Mukawa, and
S. Hirose
A Three-dimensional Outer-magnetospheric Gap Model for Gamma-ray
Pulsars: I. The Crab Pulsar (Invited)223
K. Cheng, M. Ruderman, and L. Zhang
Accreting Plasmas in Black Hole Magnetospheres (Invited)233
M. Takahashi
Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Accretion Discs241
U. Torkelsson, A. Brandenburg, A. Nordlund, and R. F. Stein
Plasma Masers in Radio Pulsars243
M. Lyutikov, R. Blandford, and G. Machabeli
The Physics of Soft Gamma Repeaters (Invited)245
C. Thompson
The Magnetic Fields of the Universe and Their Origin (Invited) 255
S. A. Colgate and H. Li
Jets from Black Hole Magnetospheres (Invited)265
K. Shibata, S. Koide, T. Kudoh, and S. Aoki

Section D. Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Plasmas
Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares (Invited)277
J. A. Miller
Particle Acceleration at Astrophysical Shocks (Invited)291
A. Achterberg
Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic-ray Accelerators (Invited)303
A. V. Olinto
Electron Acceleration by Strong DC Electric Fields in Extragalactic Jets 311
Y. E. Litvinenko
Radio Evidence for Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in Normal Stars313
K. R. Lang
Wave-powered Relativistic Electron Generation in Nonuniform Magnetic
Fields 315
M. P. Leubner

Section E. Physical Processes in Relativistic Astrophysical
Plasmas
Collisionless Halos Around Black Holes (Invited)321
A. Gruzinov
Gamma-ray Bursts and Afterglow (Invited)329
R. Sari
Population Synthesis of GRB Progenitors: Problems With Kicks (Invited) 339
C. L. Fryer
Hypernovae: SNe 1997ef, 1998bw, and 1997cy (Invited)347
T. Nakamura, K. Maeda, K. Iwamoto, T. Suzuki, K. Nomoto, P. A.
Mazzali, M. Turatto, I. J. Danziger, and F. Patat
Compton Scattering, Pair Annihilation, and Pair Production in a Plasma
(Invited) 359
V. Krishan


Part II. Posters

A Model for the Spatial Distribution of Relativistic Electrons in the Crab
Nebula 371
E. Amato
General-Relativistic MHD Simulation of Jets from a Geometrically Thin
Accretion Disk Around a Schwarzschild Black Hole373
S. I. Aoki, S. Koide, K. Shibata, and T. Kudoh
Electron Trapping and Precipitation in Asymmetric Solar Flare Loops 375
M. J. Aschwanden, L. Fletcher, T. Sakao, T. Kosugi, and H. Hudson
Active Late-Type Stellar Coronae: Hints for Flare Heating?377
M. Audard, M. Gudel, J. J. Drake, V. Kashyap, and E. F. Guinan
Stochastic Acceleration and Nonthermal Radiation in Clusters of Galaxies 379
P. Blasi and A. Olinto
Relativistic Adiabatic Shocks in Accretion Flows381
D. M. Caditz and S. Tsuruta
Pulsar Geometrodynamics: Relativistic Radiative Plasma Theory and its
Associated Quantum Phenomena 385
A. A. da Costa
X-ray Emission from Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies and
Low Radiative-efficiency Accretion387
T. Di Matteo and S. W. Allen
Magnetic Helicity, Dynamo Action, Reconnection, and Particle Accelera-
tion 389
G. B. Field and E. G. Blackman
Starquakes in Neutron Stars 391
L. M. Franco, B. Link, and R. I. Epstein
Gyrosynchrotron Emission from Stellar Coronae393
M. Gudel and A. Zucker
X-ray Radiation from Flare-heated Coronal Plasma395
M. Gudel
Primordial Flares, Flux Tubes, and Gamma-ray Bursts397
K. M. Hiremath
Internal Rotation of AB Doradus399
K. M. Hiremath
Which Forces Accelerate Jets?401
S. X. Kato, T. Kudoh, and K. Shibata
Particle Acceleration and Radiation in Magnetospheres of Collapsing Stars 403
V. Kryvdyk
Collimation of Magnetically Driven Outflows from Accretion Disks407
T. Kudoh, R. Matsumoto, and K. Shibata
A Scaling Law for Magnetic Flux Tubes on an AGN Accretion Disk409
A. M. K. LeRoux, D. W. Longcope, and S. Tsuruta
Hidden Blazars In Radio Loud Quasars?411
F. Ma
Hard X-ray Spectrum of the Above-the-Looptop Source in Impulsive Solar
Flares 413
S. Masuda
Numerical Simulations of the Precessing Jets of SS433415
E. Muller and W. Brinkmann
Statistical Properties of Kerr BH Flywheel Model of QSOs/AGNs417
S. Nitta
Interaction of the SS433 Jet with the Interstellar Medium419
P. O'Neill, R. Sood, P. Durouchoux, and S. Safi-Harb
High-energy Radiation from a Model of Quasars, AGNs, and the Galactic
Center with Magnetic Monopoles421
Q.-H. Peng
NLTE Model Atmospheres for Extremely Hot Compact Stars423
T. Rauch, J. L. Deetjen, S. Dreizler, and K. Werner
Far-ultraviolet Emission from Supernova Remnant Shocks425
R. Sankrit, W. P. Blair, and the FUSE SNR Team
Self-organized Criticality with Data from MCG-6-30-15?427
R. Sivron, E. Goralski, A. LeRoux, S. Tsuruta, and H. Kunieda
Candidates for Optical Counterpart in the Field of PSR 1821-24 in M28 431
F. K. Sutaria
Magnetic Field Effects upon Neutron Star Cooling433
M. A. Teter, D. Rilett, and S. Tsuruta
The Isolated Neutron Star RX J185635-3754437
F. M. Walter, P. An, J. Lattimer, and M. Prakash
Reacceleration of Relativistic Electrons by Turbulent Alfven Waves in Ra-
dio Jets 439
D.-Y. Wang and Y. Ma
Statistical Properties of Magnetic Separators in Model Active Regions 443
B. T. Welsch and D. W. Longcope
Numerical Simulations of Solar Flares445
T. Yokoyama and K. Shibata
Summary of Posters on Solar Physics (Summary)447
M. J. Aschwanden


Part III. Panel Discussion and Symposium Summary

Section A. Panel Discussion on Common Physical Processes
and Mechanisms for High-Energy Emission from Astrophysical
Plasmas
Solar Flares, the Solar Corona, and Solar Physics455
E. N. Parker
Astrophysics in the New Millennium461
C. R. Canizares
Neutron Star Powered Accelerators463
M. Ruderman
Does the Magnetodynamic Model for the Formation of AGN Jets Survive
New Findings of High-energy Phenomena near the Central Objects? 473
Y. Uchida

Section B. Symposium Summary
Symposium Summary and Concluding Remarks485
G. B. Field


Author Index491