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The Second IEEE International Workshop, Princeton, New Jersey, May 10-12, 1993

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This special issue of the international journal of cosmic physics, Astrophysics and Space Science, contains invited contributions delivered at the Second IEEE International Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics and Cosmology, held from 10 to 12 May 1993 in Princeton, New Jersey. The Workshop was sponsored by the NSF Division of Atmospheric Sciences, NASA Headquarters, Space Physics Division, and the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. It was the purpose of the Workshop to update topics in Plasma Astrophysics and Cosmology presented at the First IEEE International Workshop on Plasma Cosmology, La Jolla, California, 20-22 February 1989, and to again bring together observers and theorists to discuss the related links between plasma theory and observation. Another goal of the Workshop and these proceedings was to highlight the Centennial Celebration (1896-1996) of the founding of Plasma Astrophysics and Cosmology and several papers are devoted to the history of this field of science.

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Preface; A.L. Peratt. Introduction to plasma astrophysics and cosmology; A.L. Peratt. The redshift revisited; A.K.T. Assis, M.C.D. Neves. Redshift quantization - A review; W.G. Tifft. Determination of true velocity dispersion and the dark matter problem in clusters of galaxies; A. Ghosh. Low correlation between redshift and intrinsic brightness for quasars and galaxies in a De Sitter universe; J.B. Miller, T.E. Miller. Intergalactic radio absorption and the COBE data; E.J. Lerner. A window on the plasma universe: the very large array; K.R. Healy. Intergalactic plasma; G. Reber. Plasma and the universe: large scale dynamics, filamentation, and radiation; A.L. Peratt. The pillars of cosmology: a short history and assessment; J. Kanipe. Gravitation, global four-momentum conservation and the strong equivalence principle; D.F. Roscoe. A model cosmology based on gravity-electromagnetism unification; J.E. Brandenburg. On the problem of big bang nucleosynthesis; E.J. Lerner. Observational limits on intergalactic matter; B. Wszolek. Cluster-scale magnetic fields; T. Venturi, G. Giovannini. Rotation velocity and neutral hydrogen distribution dependency on magnetic field strength in spiral galaxies; C.M. Snell, A.L. Peratt. How can spirals persist? C.K. Whitney. Interstellar neutral hydrogen filaments at high galactic latitudes and the Bennett Pinch; G.L. Verschuur. Protostar formation under two current carrying gas filaments collision; B. Chargeishvili, J.-I. Sakai. Evolution of current loops in space; S.J. Goldstein, Jr. Radiation properties of pulsar magnetospheres: observation, theory, and experiment; K.R. Healy, A.L. Peratt. Titus-Bode series, galaxy group redshift differences calculated from roots of the Besel equation; D.R. Wells. Solar wind-magnetosphere interaction as simulated by a 3-D EM particle code; K.-I. Nishikawa, et al. Recollections of Max Born; E. Wolf.

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