Frontiers of X-Ray Astronomy

Preface 1. Forty years on from Aerobee 150: a personal perspective K. Pounds 2. X-ray spectroscopy of astrophysical plasmas S. M. Kahn, E. Behar, A. Kinkhabwala and D. W. Savin 3. X-rays from stars M. Gudel 4. X-ray observations of accreting white-dwarf systems M. Cropper, G. Ramsay, C. Hellier, K. Mukai, C. Mauche and D. Pandel 5. Accretion flows in X-ray binaries C. Done 6. Recent X-ray observations of supernova remnants C. R. Canizares 7. Luminous X-ray sources in spiral and star-forming galaxies M. Ward 8. Cosmological constraints from Chandra observations of galaxy clusters S. W. Allen 9. Clusters of galaxies: a cosmological probe R. Mushotzky 10. Obscured active galactic nuclei: the hidden side of the X-ray Universe G. Matt 11. The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey and the cosmic X-ray background W. N. Brandt, D. M. Alexander, F. E. Bauer and A. E. Hornschemeier 12. Hunting the first black holes G. Hasinger 13. X-ray astronomy in the new millennium: a summary R. D. Blandford.