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Dark matter in the universe. Written lectures of the 4th Jerusalem winter school, December 30, 1986 – January 8, 1987. 2nd ed. (English) Zbl 1078.85002

River Edge, NJ: World Scientific (ISBN 981-238-840-0/hbk; 981-238-841-9/pbk). xii, 233 p. (2004).
This is the second editon of this proceedings volume about dark matter models in cosmology. The foreword is written by J. Bahcall and S. Weinberg, Nobel laureate in physics. Besides reprints of papers from the Astrophysical Journal from 1985, the volume contains several articles representing the state of the art of 1986 about gravitational lenses, inflationary cosmology, weakly interacting massive particles ect.
The Introduction by J. Bahcall (pages 1–5) and the last chapter 12 by A. Aguirre (“Dark matter in cosmology”, pages 217–233) are newly written in 2004, the rest of the book is the same as the first edition published in 1988.

MSC:

85-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics
83-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory
00B15 Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest
83F05 Relativistic cosmology
85A40 Astrophysical cosmology
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