Cosmological Aspects of X-Ray Clusters of Galaxies

1. The Present and the Past of X-Ray Astronomy.- ROSAT Three Years in Orbit.- X-Ray Emission from Clusters of Galaxies.- The First Decade of X-Ray Astronomy — A Personal View.- 2. X-Ray Clusters and Cluster Environments.- Galaxy Environment and Clusters of Galaxies.- X-Ray Imaging Observations of Clusters of Galaxies.- X-Ray Studies of Compact Galaxy Groups.- Combined X-Ray/Radio/Optical Observations of ROSAT Clusters of Galaxies.- ROSAT Detections at High Redshift.- X-Ray Emission from a Complete Sample of Abell Clusters of Galaxies.- Substructure in ABCG 2256: Wavelet Analysis of ROSAT Image.- Pointed ROSAT Observations of Clusters of Galaxies.- Dark Matter Distribution in X-Ray Clusters of Galaxies.- X-Ray Emission from a Simulated Cluster of Galaxies.- Luminosity Segregation in cD Clusters and Relevant Implications.- 3. Cluster Masses and Dynamics.- The Masses of Clusters of Galaxies.- The Mass Distribution(s) in Clusters of Galaxies.- A Model-Independent Method to Determine the Mass in Clusters of Galaxies.- Simulating the Dynamics of the Virgo Cluster.- ROSAT Observation of Abell 1795: Temperature Profile — Gravitating, Gas, and Galaxy Mass Distribution — Cooling Flow.- 4. Cooling Flows and Chemical Abundances.- Cluster Cooling Flows.- The Optical Properties of Central Cluster Galaxies in Cooling Flows.- 2-D Numerical Simulations of Hot Gas Deposition in Cooling Flows.- X-Ray Spectroscopy of Galaxy Clusters.- 5. Cluster Lensing and Sunyaev-ZePdovich Effect.- Cluster Lenses and Dark Matter Distribution in Clusters of Galaxies.- Using Gravitational Lensing to Test the Pressure-Supported Hot Intracluster Gas Hypothesis in A2218.- PRONAOS-SPM: A Balloon-Borne Experiment Well Adapted to Measure the Short Wavelength Part of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect.- 6.Cluster Formation and Evolution.- Formation and Evolution of Clusters as Dynamical Structures.- Constraint on Galaxy Formation Theories from X-Ray Clusters.- Evolution of the X-Ray Properties of Clusters of Galaxies.- The Structure and Evolution of Clusters.- Galaxy Formation in Galaxy Clusters: A Phenomenological Approach.- X-Ray Clusters in the Sculptor Supercluster.- Constraints on Models of Large-Scale Structure Formation.- A2163: An Exceptionally Hot Cluster of Galaxies.- X-Ray Clusters of Galaxies in CDM Cosmogony.- 7. Large-Scale Structure.- So Many Galaxies, so Little Time.- A Census of Optically-Selected Clusters.- The Spatial Correlation Function of Galaxy Clusters: Optical to X-Ray.- A Search for Galaxy Alignment in the Hercules Supercluster.- A Redshift Survey of the Corona Borealis Supercluster.- 8. Structure and Cosmological Parameters.- A Map with a Scale: The Las Campanas Redshift Survey.- Large-Scale Structures from Low-Resolution Redshift Surveys.- The Muenster Redshift Project.- Inflation and the Origin of Large-Scale Potential Perturbations.- Einstein Observatory Evidence for a Widespread Baryon Overdensity in Clusters of Galaxies.- Evidence for High? From Large scale Structure.- X-Ray Clusters: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters.- Cosmological Implications of the Distribution of Quasar Forest Lines.- Author Index.- Object Index.