The Radio Galaxy Messier 87: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, 15-19 September 1997 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

This book gives both a comprehensive and detailed account of the current theoretical and observational investigations of the radio galaxy M87 in the Virgo cluster. A number of introductory chapters provide a general overview, which makes the book accessible also to non-specialists in the field. The remaining chapters are devoted to a detailed treatment of special topics covering all relevant aspects of the galactic structure and jet. Introducing M 87....Pages 1-8 The virgo cluster — home of M 87....Pages 9-30 M 87 as a galaxy....Pages 31-42 M 87 as a younger progenitor galaxy in the virgo cluster....Pages 43-49 The surface brightness fluctuations and globular cluster populations of M87 and its companions....Pages 50-55 The large-scale structure of virgo A....Pages 56-65 Spectral analysis of the large-scale radio emission of M 87....Pages 66-71 The structure of the radio halo....Pages 72-76 The outer radio halo: Typical of atypical radio sources?....Pages 77-82 The intracluster medium in the X-ray halo of M 87....Pages 83-92 ASCA observation of M 87....Pages 93-99 The large scale X-ray emission from M 87....Pages 100-105 Cluster turbulence....Pages 106-115 M 87 and cooling flows....Pages 116-129 The inner lobes of M 87....Pages 130-135 Magnetic fields and turbulence in the center of M 87....Pages 136-141 Extended emission-line gas in M 87....Pages 142-158 Radio observations of the M 87 jet....Pages 159-185 VLA 7mm images of the M 87 jet....Pages 186-187 High-frequency observations and spectrum of the jet in M 87....Pages 188-209 HST observations of the M 87 jet....Pages 210-228 The synchrotron emission from the M87 jet....Pages 229-234 Theory of the M 87 jet....Pages 235-245 Kelvin-helmholtz instabilities and particle acceleration in jets....Pages 246-251 On disks and jet(s) in the defunct quasar M 87....Pages 252-270 Motion and structure of relativistic jets....Pages 271-277 The nuclear disk in M 87: A review....Pages 278-290 The supermassive black hole of M 87 and the kinematics of its associated gaseous disk....Pages 291-300 Morphology of the nuclear disk in M 87....Pages 301-306 The nuclear spectrum of M 87....Pages 307-312 The inner accretion disk in M 87....Pages 313-318 X-ray variability in M 87: 1992 – 1998....Pages 319-323 Closing comments....Pages 324-332