Extragalactic Radio Sources [Paperback]

IAU Symposium 97, Extragalactic Radio Sources, was held at Albuquerque, New Mexico August 3-7, 1981. It was co-sponsored by IAU Commissions 28, 40, 47 and 48 and by URSI Commission J. Financial and organizational support were provided by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the University of New Mexico, and the National Science Foundation. A wide variety of interesting objects and phenomena can be covered under the heading Extragalactic Radio Sources , and a diverse set of topics was in fact discussed at the symposium. Radio galaxies, quasars, Seyfert galaxies and BL Lacertids received the most attention, but normal galaxies, the galactic center, and even SS433 were also discussed. While the unifying theme of the symposium was radio emission, studies at all wavelengths--X-ray, UV, optical, IR, and radio--were included. In general, the emphasis was on individual objects and the physical processes associated with them, but there were also papers on statistical studies and cosmology. The symposium was attended by 209 scientists from 18 countries.Introductory Lecture.- Large Scale Emission from Radio Galaxies.- Evolutionary Tracks of Extended Radio Sources.- Rotating Gas and the Shapes of Radio Sources.- Aperture Synthesis Observations of Cygnus A at 86.2 GHz.- The Spectral Index Distribution of Cygnus A.- Observations of Radio Galaxies and QSR with RATAN-600.- A Possible Evolutionary Feature in the Spectra of Radio Galaxies.- High Resolution VLA Observations of Quasars with Distorted Radio Structure.- The Radio Spectrum Across Three Tailed Radio Galaxies.- VLA and Optical Mapping of the Quasar PKS 0812+020.- What Bends Wide-Angle Tailed Radio Sources?.- Nuclear EjectionOne Side at a Time.- Time Dependent Energy Supply in Radio Sources and Morphology of Radio Lobes.- Multi-Frequency Polarization Studies of Radio Galaxies.- A Complete Sample of Radio Galaxies.- Extended Structure in High-Redshift Radio Sources.- Extended Optical Line Emission Associated with RadiolC—