Theory-Publications



Master and PhD Theses




last update: 2007/February/27

overall 193 documents contained in list


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Year 2008


  1. Interacting coronae of two T Tauri stars: first observational evidence for solar-like helmet streamers
    M. Massi, E. Ros, K. M. Menten, M. Kaufman Bernado, G. Torricelli-Ciamponi, J. Neidhofer, A. Boden, D. Boboltz, A. Sargent, G.Torres
    A&A, 480, 489 (2008); arXiv:0712.0718
    more...
  2. Magnetic Field Upper Limits for Jet Formation
    Massi, M.; Kaufman Bernado, M.
    A&A, 477, 1 (2008); astro-ph/0709.4287
    more...


  3. Year 2007


    1. Correlation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects
      AUGER-collaboration (includ. P.L. Biermann)
      Science, 318, 939 - 943 (9 November 2007); arXiv:0711.2256
      more...
    2. The nature of light dark matter
      Biermann, P.L., Caramete, L., Munyaneza, F., Stasielak, J.
      in press, invited lecture, Proc. Sinaia summerschool 2007, Ed. L. Trache, S. Stoica, (2007)

    3. Research and Teaching across borders
      Biermann, P.L.
      in press, invited lecture, Proc. Sinaia summerschool 2007, Ed. L. Trache, S. Stoica, (2007)

    4. A basic condition for jet formation in accreting X-ray binaries
      Kaufman Bernado, M, Massi, M.
      Mem. Soc. Astron. Italiana, vol. 78, p.393 2007

    5. Astrophysical implications of high energy neutrino limits
      Becker, Julia K., Gross, Andreas, Munich, Kirsten, Dreyer, Jens, Rhode, Wolfgang, Biermann, Peter L.
      ApP 28, 98 - 118 (2007); astro-ph/0607427
      more...
    6. Anisotropy studies around the Galactic Center at EeV energies
      for the AUGER-collaboration (includ. P.L. Biermann)
      ApP, 27, 244 - 253 (2007); astro-ph/0607382
      more...
    7. Radio emission of highly inclined cosmic ray air showers measured with LOPES
      J. Petrovi, et al., includ. Peter L. Biermann, the LOPES collaboration
      AA, 462, p.389-395 (2007); astro-ph/0604273
      more...
    8. An upper limit to the photon fraction in cosmic rays above 10^19 eV from the Pierre Auger Observatory
      Abraham, J. et al.(includ. Peter L. Biermann)
      ApP, 27, p.155-168 (2007); astro-ph/0606619
      more...
    9. Origin and physics of the highest energy cosmic rays: What can we learn from Radio Astronomy ?
      Peter L. Biermann, P. Gina Isar, Ioana C. Maris, Faustin Munyaneza, Oana Tascau
      invited lecture at the Erice meeting June 2006, editors T. Stanev and John Wefel, in press (2007), astro-ph/0702161
      more...
    10. The nature of dark matter
      Peter L. Biermann, Faustin Munyaneza
      invited lecture at the Erice meeting June 2006, editors T. Stanev and John Wefel, in press (2007), astro-ph/0702164
      more...
    11. Dark matter and sterile neutrinos
      Peter L. Biermann, Faustin Munyaneza
      invited plenary talk at the 11th Marcel Grossmann meeting, July 2006, editors Ruffini, Jantzen, Kleinert and Fang, World Scientific, in press (2007), astro-ph/0702173
      more...


    Year 2006


    1. Thermal evolution of the primordial clouds in warm dark matter models with keV sterile neutrinos
      Jaroslaw Stasielak, Peter L. Biermann, Alexander Kusenko
      in press, ApJ (2006), astro-ph/0606435
      more...
    2. Cosmic Rays X. The cosmic ray knee and beyond: Diffusive acceleration at oblique shocks
      A. Meli, Biermann, Peter L.
      Accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 pages, 8 figures (for the 'Cosmic Rays' series papers); astro-ph/0602308
      more...
    3. Progress in Airshower Radio Measurements: Detection of distant events
      The LOPES Collaboration, includ. P.L. Biermann
      2006, ApP, in press, astro-ph/0607495
      more...
    4. On the selection of AGN neutrino source candidates for a source stacking analysis with neutrino telescopes
      AMANDA Coll. and Peter L. Biermann
      2006, ApP, in press, astro-ph/
      more...
    5. Relic keV sterile neutrinos and reionization
      Biermann, Peter L., Kusenko, Alexander
      Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 091301 (2006); astro-ph/0601004 more...
    6. High-energy emission of fast rotating white dwarfs
      Ikhsanov, N. R., Biermann, P. L.
      A&A, 445, p.305 - 312 (2006); astro-ph/0509070more...
    7. Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from Sequestered X Bursts
      Biermann, P. L., Paul H. Frampton
      Phys. Letters B 634, p. 125-129 (2006), astro-ph/0512188more...
    8. Dark energy - dark matter - and black holes: The music of the universe
      Peter L. Biermann
      Invited review lecture at Carpathian Summer School in Physics 2005 (CSSP2005),Ed. L. Trache, Texas A&M, World Scientific (2006), p. 431 - 438, astro-ph/0510024
      more...
    9. The origin of cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann
      Invited review lecture in Proc. Carpathian Summer School in Physics 2005 ,Ed. L. Trache, Texas A&M, World Scientific (2006), p. 225 - 232
    10. Towards technology in society and business through science and education
      Peter L. Biermann
      Invited speech for the Science committee of the Federal Parliament of Romania, Proc. Carpathian Summer School in Physics 2005 ,Ed. L. Trache, Texas A&M, World Scientific(2006), p. 463 - 465
    11. Galactic cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann
      Invited review at the spring Aspen meeting 2005, Ed. John Matthews, IOP Journ. of Phys.: Conf. Ser., 47, p.78 - 85 (2006)


    Year 2005


    1. High energy phenomena in active galactic nuclei: relativistic jets
      Ioana Dutan and Peter L. Biermann
      In Astrophysical Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation, Eds. T. Bulik, B. Rudak, G. Madejski, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol 801 (2005)
    2. Fast Growth of supermassive black holes in Galaxies
      Faustin Munyaneza and Peter L. Biermann
      A&A 436, 805-815 (2005), also astro-ph/0403511
      more...
    3. Detection and imaging of atmospheric radio flashes from cosmic ray air showers
      Heino Falcke et al. (includ. Peter L. Biermann)
      Nature, Volume 435, Issue 7040, pp. 313-316 (2005), also astro-ph/0505383
      more...
    4. Jets Driven by Accretion onto Spinning Black Holes
      Ioana Dutan and Peter L. Biermann
      To be published in the proceedings of the 40th Rencontres de Moriond: "Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe", La Thuile, Italy, March 2005, in press (2005), astro-ph/0505403
      more...
    5. Particle acceleration: From galaxies to large scale structure
      Peter L. Biermann, Gennady Biosnovatyi-Kogan, Sergej Moiseenko
      invited review at the Brazil Nov 2004 meeting, Ed. E. d. Pino Gouveia, AIP proc, in press (2005)
    6. The diffuse neutrino flux from FR-II radio galaxies and blazars: A source property based estimate
      Julia K. Becker, Peter L. Biermann, Wolfgang Rhode
      Astroparticle Physics, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 355-368, also astro-ph/0502089
      more...
    7. On the 'ankle' of cosmic ray spectrum: Effects of the quasi-perpendicular shocks
      Athina Meli, Peter L. Biermann, and Julia K. Becker
      29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Pune India, Proceedings, Vol. 8, p. 2345 (2005)
    8. Highly oblique shocks: Diffusion coefficients, acceleration rate and maximum energy
      Athina Meli and Peter L. Biermann
      To be published in AIP proceeding series of ASTROPHYSICAL SOURCES OF HIGH ENERGY PARTICLES AND RADIATION Meeting, Torun, Poland, June 2005, in press (2005)
    9. Proton acceleration at quasi-perpendicular shocks: a case study for Active Galactic Nuclei
      Athina Meli and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. Nachr., 326, 551-551 (2005)
    10. The Efficiency of Using Accretion Power of Kerr Black Holes
      Ioana Dutan and Peter L. Biermann
      In Neutrinos and Explosive Events in the Universe, Eds. M. Shapiro, T. Stanev & J. Wefel, NATO Science Series, II. Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry - Vol.209, p.175 (2005), also astro-ph/0410194
      more...



    Year 2004


    1. Cosmic Rays & diffusive shock acceleration at highly oblique non-relativistic shocks
      Athina Meli and Peter L. Biermann
      Presented at XIII International Symposium of Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, Pylos, Greece; September 2004, to appear in Nuclear Physics B. (2004)
    2. The Ordering of Magnetic Fields in the Cosmos
      Philipp P. Kronberg and Peter L. Biermann
      invited lecture in Proc. Pusan conference August 2004 Ed. D. Ryu, Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society, p. 527-531
      more...
    3. Studies of Relativistic Shock Acceleration
      Meli A., Quenby J.J.
      in Proc. Huntsville Workshop 2002: 'Astrophysical Particle Acceleration in Geospace and Beyond' Chattanooga Tennessee USA, In press 'The AGU Particle Acceleration Monograph' (2004)
    4. Diffusive Shock Acceleration In Astrophysics
      Quenby J.J., Meli A.
      Invited Overview Paper in Proc. Huntsville Workshop 2002: 'Astrophysical Particle Acceleration in Geospace and Beyond' Chattanooga Tennessee USA, In press 'The AGU Particle Acceleration Monograph' (2004)
    5. Sources of Cosmic Rays and Galactic Diffuse Gamma Radiation
      Casanova S., Biermann P.L., Engel R., Meli A., Ulrich R.
      in Proc. INTEGRAL workshop 2004 in Munich (in press) (2004)astro-ph/0403661
      more...
    6. Cosmic rays, stellar evolution, and supernova physics
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited lecture at the Seeon meeting May 2003, Eds. R. Diehl et al., Elsevier, New Astron. Rev. 48, 41-46
      more...
    7. Properties and performance of the prototype instrument for the Pierre Auger Observatory
      AUGER Collaboration: Abraham J. incl. P.L. Biermann and S. Casanova
      Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A 523 50 - 95 (2004)
    8. Gamma Ray Bursts - a critical review
      Valeriu Tudose and Peter L. Biermann
      Roman. Reports in Physics vol. 56 No. 2 p.(2004)
    9. Experiments in Fundamental Physics scheduled and in development for the ISS
      C. Lämmerzahl, ..., Peter L. Biermann et al.
      invited review in a special issue of General Relativity and Gravitation 36, 615 - 649
    10. The last Gamma Ray Burst in our Galaxy? On the observed cosmic ray exess at particle energy 10^18 eV
      Peter L. Biermann, Gustavo Medina Tanco, Ralph Engel, Giovanna Pugliese
      ApJL 604, L29-L32 (2004) astro-ph/0401150
      more...
    11. Brightness suppression of relativistic radio jets of quasars: The role of the lower electron cut-off
      Gopal Krishna, Peter L. Biermann, Paul J. Wiita
      ApJL 603, L9-12 (2004) astro-ph/0401463
      more...
    12. Non-forward quark-quark correlation-function
      Sabrina Casanova
      submitted to Nucl. Phys. B (late 2003)



    Year 2003


    1. Cosmic Rays from PeV to ZeV, Stellar Evolution, Supernova Physics and Gamma Ray Bursts
      Peter L. Biermann, Sergej Moiseenko, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Ana Vasile
      invited review at the 9th course of the Chalonge School on Astrofundamental Physics: 'The Early Universe and The Cosmic Microwave Background: Theory and Observations'; Eds. N.G. Sanchez \& Y.N. Parijski, Kluwer, p. 489 - 516 (2003) astro-ph/0302201
      more...
    2. Signatures for a Cosmic Flux of Magnetic Monopoles
      Stuart D. Wick, Thomas W. Kephart, Thomas J. Weiler, Peter L. Biermann
      Astroparticle Physics, Volume 18, Issue 6, p. 663-687
      more...
    3. Cosmic rays, stellar evolution, and supernova physics
      Peter L. Biermann, Ana Vasile
      at the Vatican meeting 'International Symposium on Astrophysics Reserch and on the Dialogue between Science and Religion.'
      Eds. C.D. Impey & C.D. Impey & c.E. Petry, p. 120-124 (2003)
    4. Exploring the Role of Jets in the Radio/X-ray Correlations of GX339-4
      S. Markoff, M. Nowak, S. Corbel, R. Fender, H. Falcke
      AA 397, p. 645-658 (2003)
      more...
    5. Origin and Physics of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Observed in the Universe
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Tokyo meeting March 2003, Ed. Sasaki, in press
    6. Origin of Cosmic Magnetic Fields
      Peter L. Biermann, Cristina F. Galea
      invited review at the 9th course of the Chalonge School on Astrofundamental Physics: "The Early Universe and The Cosmic Microwave Background: Theory and Observations"; Eds. N.G. Sanchez & Y.N. Parijski, Kluwer, p. 471 - 488 (2003), astro-ph/0302168
      more...
    7. Origin, propagation and physics of the highest energy cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Beijing meeting Sept 2002, Ed. Y. Jing, Prog. in Astron. 21, p. 53-63
    8. Signatures for a Cosmic Flux of Magnetic Monopoles
      Stuart D. Wick, Thomas W. Kephart, Thomas J. Weiler, Peter L. Biermann
      Astro. Part. Phys. 18, 663 - 687, astro-ph/0001233
      more...
    9. The Origin of the X-shaped radio galaxies: Clues from the Z-symmetric Secondary Lobes
      Gopal Krishna, Peter L. Biermann and Paul Wiita
      ApJL 594, p. L103-L106, astro-ph/0308059
      more...
    10. Ultrahigh energy cosmic ray sources & experimental results
      Peter L. Biermann & Gustavo Medina-Tanco
      invited review for the CERN meeting July 2002, 'Very high enregy cosmic ray interactions' Eds. B. Pattison et al., North-Holland,
      Nucl. Phys. B. Proc. Suppl. 122, p. 86-97 (2003), astro-ph/0301299
      more...



    Year 2002


    1. A Jet-ADAF model for Sgr A*
      Yuan, F., Markoff, S., Falcke,H.
      AA 383, 854 -863
    2. Binary Black Holes and tori in AGN II. Can stellar winds constitute a dusty torus?
      Christian Zier & Peter L. Biermann
      A&A 396, 91, astro-ph/0203359
      more...

    3. Cosmic Magnetic Fields
      Peter L. Biermann
      more...

    4. Cosmic Radiation
      Peter L. Biermann, Eun-Suk Seo
      invited review Academic Press Encyclopedia, Third Edition,vol. 3, p. 823 - 835, 2002

    5. Cosmic Rays in Clusters of Galaxies
      P.L. Biermann, T.A. Ensslin, H. Kang, H. Lee, D. Ryu
      invited lecture at the Taipeh Conference on clusters of galaxies, April 2002, ASP Conf. proc., vol. 301, Ed. St. Bowyer & C.-Y. Hwang, p. 293-311 (2003), astro-ph/0211216
      more...

    6. Dynamical role of cosmic rays in clusters of galaxies
      Dongsu Ryu, Hyesung Kang, and Peter L. Biermann
      invited lecture at the Taipeh Conference on clusters of galaxies, April 2002, ASP Conf. proc., vol. 301, Ed. St. Bowyer & C.-Y. Hwang, p.327-335 (2003)

    7. NGC 4258: A jet-dominated low-luminosity AGN?
      Sera Markoff, Heino Falcke, Peter L. Biermann, Feng Yuan
      A&A 391, p. 139 - 148, astro-ph/0205531
      more...

    8. Population X: Are the super-Eddington X-ray sources beamed jets in microblazars or intermediate mass black holes?
      K�ding, E., Falcke, H., Markoff, S.
      AAL 382, L13 - L16

    9. Single and binary black holes and their active environment
      P.L. Biermann, M. Chirvasa, H. Falcke, S. Markoff, & Ch. Zier
      invited review at the Paris Conference on Cosmology, June 2000, in Proceedings, Eds. N. Sanchez, H. de Vega, in press, astro-ph/0211503
      more...

    10. The structure of accretion flow at the base of jets in AGN
      Alina-C. Donea, Peter L. Biermann
      Publi. of the Astron. Soc. of Australia (PASA), vol. 19, p. 125 - 128



    Year 2001


    1. Binary black holes and tori in AGN. I. Ejection of stars and merging of the binary
      Christian Zier & Peter L. Biermann
      AA 377, p. 23-43 (2001), astro-ph/0106419
      more...

    2. A jet model for the broadband spectrum of XTE J1118+480. Synchrotron emission from radio to X-rays in the Low/Hard spectral state
      Sera Markoff, Heino Falcke and Rob Fender
      A&A vol. 372, p. L25-L28 (2001)
      more...

    3. A possible nearby Origin for the Highest Energy Events observed
      Peter L. Biermann, Eun-Joo Ahn, Philipp P. Kronberg, Gustavo Medina-Tanco and Todor Stanev
      invited review for the Paris meeting, June 2000, Ed. G. Sigl, in press, 2001

    4. Astroparticles: Cosmic Particle Physics
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review and summary report, ESA-CERN Workshop on "Fundamental Physics in Space & Related Topics", ESA report SP-469, Eds. M.C.E. Huber & M. Jacob, 21 - 33 (2001)

    5. Challenges of the highest energy cosmic rays observed
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Erice meeting Dec. 2000, Ed. N. Sanchez, in press, 2001

    6. Cosmic Magnetic Fields
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Erice Meeting Dec. 2000, Ed. N. Sanchez, in press, 2001

    7. Cosmic ray interactions in the Galactic Center region
      Peter L. Biermann, Sera Markoff, Wolfgang Rhode, & Eun-Suk Seo
      invited review at the Erice school Nov. 2000, Ed. J. Wefel, in press, 2001

    8. Cosmic Rays
      Peter L. Biermann and Eun-Suk Seo
      invited review, Academic Press Encyclopedia, 2001 (in press)

    9. Cosmic Rays - an Introduction
      Peter L. Biermann and Guenter Sigl
      invited review for the Paris meeting, June 2000, Ed. G. Sigl, in press, 2001

    10. Cosmic Rays IX. Interactions and transport of cosmic rays in the Galaxy
      Peter L. Biermann, Norbert Langer, Eun-Suk Seo, Todor Stanev
      A&A vol. 369, 269 - 277(2001)
      more...

    11. Dark matter as determined from energetic particles
      P.L. Biermann
      invited review at the Erice school on "Current Topics in Astrofundamental Physics: the Cosmic Microwave background" (Dec 1999), Ed. N. Sanchez, p. 355 - 361 (2001)

    12. High energy particles in Active Galactic Nuclei
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Erice school Nov. 2000, Ed. J. Wefel, in press, 2001

    13. Origin and physics of the highest energy particles in the universe
      P.L. Biermann, E.-J. Ahn, G. Medina-Tanco, T. Stanev
      invited review at the Erice school on "Current Topics in Astrofundamental Physics: the Cosmic Microwave background", (Dec 1999), Ed. N. Sanchez, p. 515 - 537 (2001)

    14. Physics and Origin of the Highest energy events observed
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Mexico meeting on "Observing Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic rays from Space and Earth", AIP Conf. 566, August 2000, Ed. A. Zepeda, p. 37 -56 (2001)

    15. Signatures in a Giant Radio Galaxy of a Cosmological Shock Wave at Intersecting Filaments of Galaxies
      Torsten A. Ensslin, Patrick Simon, Peter L. Biermann, Ulrich Klein, Sven Kohle, Philipp P. Kronberg, Karl-Heinz Mack
      Astrophysical Journal Letter vol. 549, L39 - L42 (2001)
      more...

    16. The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and the Large Scale Structure
      Peter L. Biermann, Hyesung Kang & Dongsu Ryu
      invited review at the Taiwan meeting, the 7th Taipeh Astrophysics Workshop on "Cosmic Rays in the Universe", Oct. 2000, Ed. Ming Ko, p. 57 - 75, 2001

    17. The Nature of the 10 kilosecond X-ray flare in Sgr A*
      Sera Markoff, Heino Falcke, Feng Yuan, Peter L. Biermann
      A&A Letters, vol. 379, p.L13-L16 (2001)

    18. The Physics of the Knee in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Taiwan meeting, the 7th Taipeh Astrophysics Workshop on "Cosmic Rays in the Universe", Oct 2000, PASP Conf, ser. vol. 241, Ed. Ming Ko, p. 77 - 89, 2001



    Year 2000


    1. Black hole to bulge mass correlation in Active Galactic Nuclei: A test for a simplified formation scheme
      Yiping Wang, Peter L. Biermann and Amri Wandel
      Astron. & Astroph. vol. 361, p. 550-554 (2000)
      more...

    2. Merger-driven galaxy evolution, faint IR source counts, and the background
      Yiping Wang and Peter L. Biermann
      A&A 356, 808 - , 2000
      more...

    3. Origin of the highest energy cosmic rays observed
      P.L. Biermann, E.-J. Ahn, G. Medina-Tanco, T. Stanev
      solicited review at TAUP99, the 6th international workshop on topics in Astroparticle Physics and Underground Physics, College de France, Eds. J. Dumarchez, M. Froissart, D. Vignaud, (Sep 1999), Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.), vol. 87, p. 417 - 419, 2000 (June 2000)
      more...

    4. The jet model for Sgr A*: Radio and X-ray spectrum
      Heino Falcke and Sera Markoff
      A&A vol. 362, p. 113 - 118 (2000)
      more...

    5. The jet-disk model for GRBs: cosmic ray and neutrino backgrounds
      G. Pugliese, H. Falcke, Y. Wang and P.L. Biermann
      A&A 358, p. 409-416, 2000
      more...

    6. The origin of the highest energy cosmic rays: Back to Virgo?
      P.L. Biermann, E.-J. Ahn, G. Medina-Tanco and T. Stanev
      invited review in Proc. MPG-CAS workshop on High Energy Astrophysics in Urumqi, China, (in press) 2000
      more...

    7. Viscosity in self-gravitating disks
      Wolfgang J. Duschl, Peter A. Strittmatter and Peter L. Biermann
      A&A, 357, 1123 - 1132, 2000
      more...



    Year 1999


    1. A jet-disk symbiosis model for Gamma Ray Bursts: SS 433 the next?
      G. Pugliese, H. Falcke, P.L. Biermann
      A&A Letters 344, L37-L40, 1999
      more...

    2. Binary black holes and tori in AGN
      Zier, C.; Biermann, P. L.
      AG Abstract Services, vol. 15. Abstracts of Contributed Talks and Posters presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, in Goettingen, 20-25 September 1999

    3. Non-thermal Origin of the EUV and HEX Excess Emission of the Coma Cluster - the Nature of the Energetic Electrons
      Torsten A. En�in, Richard Lieu, Peter L. Biermann
      A&A, 344, 409-420, 1999
      more...

    4. Physics at 1021 eV: The origin of the highest energy particles observed in the universe, supersymmetry, beam dump quasars and galactic halos
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Paris meeting on Cosmology, June 1999, Eds., N. Sanchez, H. de Vega, Obs. de Paris, p. 191 - 205

    5. Radio Ghosts
      Torsten A. En�in
      invited lecture in proc. of Ringberg meeting on cluster of galaxies (April), MPE Report No. 271, p. 275, 1999
      more...

    6. Reply to comment on ``Correlation between radioquasars und ultrahigh energy cosmic rays
      Glennys R. Farrar, Peter L. Biermann
      Physical Review Letters 83, 2472, 1999
      more...

    7. TeV Cherenkov Events as Bose-Einstein Gamma Condensations
      H. Harwit,R.J. Protheroe and P.L. Biermann
      ApJ Letters 524, L91 - L94, (Oct 20), 1999
      more...

    8. The origin of cosmic rays to 1021 eV
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review in the proceedings of the CosmoLep meeting in Sodankyla (April, Finland), see CosmoLep homepage at CERN (in press), 1999

    9. Ultrahigh energy cosmic ray propagation in the local supercluster
      Gnther Sigl, Peter L. Biermann
      APh, 10, p. 141-156, 1999
      more...

    10. Very high energy gamma ray sources
      Peter L. Biermann
      short invited review for Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, IOP Publishing & Macmillan (in press) 1999



    Year 1998


    1. A possible mechanism for the mass ratio limitation in early type galaxies
      Yiping Wang and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron.&Astroph., 334, 87, 1998
      more...

    2. Angular Momentum Transport in the Central Region of the Galaxy
      Leonid M. Ozernoy, Alexei M. Fridman, Peter L. Biermann
      1998 Astronomy & Astrophysics 337, 105
      more...

    3. Are ultra-luminous infrared galaxies the dominant extragalactic population at high luminosities?
      Gopal Krishna and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron.&Astron. Letters 330, L37 - L40, 1998
      more...

    4. Black Hole Energy Release to the Gaseous Universe
      Torsten A. En�in , Yiping Wang, Biman B. Nath, Peter L. Biermann
      1998, Astronomy & Astrophysics 333, L47
      more...

    5. Cluster Radio Relics as a Tracer of Shock Waves of the Large-Scale Structure Formation
      Torsten A. En�in, Peter L. Biermann, Ulrich Klein and Sven Kohle
      1998, Astron.&Astroph. 332, 395
      more...

    6. Correlation between radioquasars und ultrahigh energy cosmic rays
      Glennys R. Farrar, Peter L. Biermann
      1998, Physical Review Letters 81, 3579
      more...

    7. Cosmic magnetic field in large scale filament and sheets
      Dongsu Ryu., Hyesung Kang, and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron.&Astroph., 335, 19-25, 1998
      more...

    8. Cosmic ray interactions in the Galaxy
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited lecture at the Nuclear Astrophysics meeting at Hirschegg, in Proc., GSI, Darmstadt,p. 211 - 222, 1998

    9. Cosmic Ray sources and Acceleration Processes
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review in Proc. for TATA Golden Jubilee Meeting, Mumbai, India ``High Energy Astronomy and Astrophysics", Eds. P.C. Agrawal & P.R. Vishwanath, Universities Press, Hyderabad (India), p. 297 - 305, 1998

    10. Cosmic Rays
      Barbara Wiebel-Sooth, Peter L. Biermann
      invited chapter for Landolt-B�nstein, vol VI/3c, Springer Publ. Comp., 1999, p. 37-90
      includes a CD (at the request of the publisher NOT on astro-ph), but available as a preprint from our institute

    11. Detecting the undetectable
      P.L. Biermann
      invited short book-review on Cosmic Bullets by R. Clay & B. Dawson, Nature, 392, 563, 1998

    12. Frontiers of Astrophysics - Workshop summary
      Peter L. Biermann, H. Falcke, Ed. B. Panvini
      AIP Conf. Proc. 423, p. 236- 248, 1998
      more...

    13. H2O megamaser emission from FR I radio galaxies
      C. Henkel, Y.P. Wang, H. Falcke, A.S. Wilson, J.A. Braatz
      1998 Astron.&Astroph., 335, 463
      more...

    14. Lower limit on the Magnetic Fields and Relativistic Electrons in the Coma Cluster from Multifrequency Observations
      Torsten A. En�in and Peter L. Biermann
      1998, Astron.&Astroph. 330, 90
      more...

    15. Magnetically supported tori in active galactic nuclei
      Richard V.E. Lovelace, Marina Romanova, Peter L. Biermann
      1998, Astron. & Astroph. 338, 856
      more...

    16. On the dynamo driven accretion disks
      Chun-Yu Ma and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph.,334, 736-741, 1998
      more...

    17. Powerful radio galaxies as sources of the highest energy cosmic rays
      Peter Biermann
      invited lecture at the NASA workshop on particles beyond 1020 eV, in AIP conf. proc. book, 433, p. 22, 1998
      more...

    18. The jet/disk symbiosis III. What the radio cores in GRS1915+105, NGC4258, M81 and Sgr A* tell us about accreting black holes
      Heino Falcke and Peter L. Biermann
      A&A, 342, p. 49, 1998
      more...

    19. The origin of the highest energy cosmic rays and cosmic magnetic fields
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Lindau conference on Plasma Astrophysics, May 1998, Ap&SS, 264, p. 423, 1999
      more...

    20. The sources of the highest energy cosmic rays observed in the universe
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Paris meeting on cosmology, June 1998, Eds. H.J. de Vega and N. Sanchez, Observatoire de Paris, p. 171 - 189, 1999



    Year 1997


    1. Contributions to the cosmic ray flux above the ankle: Clusters of galaxies
      Hyesung Kang, J�g P. Rachen, and Peter L. Biermann
      Monthly Not. Roy. Astr. Soc. 286, 257, 1997
      more...

    2. Cosmic Rays VII. Individual element spectra: prediction and data
      Barbara Wiebel-Sooth, Hinrich Meyer and Peter L. Biermann
      1997, Astron.&Astroph. 330, 389
      more...

    3. Cosmic Structure of magnetic fields
      Peter L. Biermann, Hyesung Kang, and J�g P. Rachen
      Dongsu Ryu, in Proc. 32nd. Moriond Meeting on "Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe", Les Arcs, 1997, p. 227 - 234
      more...

    4. Cosmic-ray protons and magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies and their cosmological consequences
      Torsten A. En�in, Peter L. Biermann, Philipp P. Kronberg, and Xiang P. Wu
      Astrophysical Journal 477, 560, 1997
      more...

    5. Not-so-cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann
      in ``News and Views in Nature (July 3, 1997), vol. 388, p. 24 + 25

    6. Photon-photon absorption above a molecular cloud torus in blazars
      Ray J. Protheroe and P.L. Biermann
      Astroparticle Physics 6, p. 293 - 300, 1997
      more...

    7. Structure and Evolution of Galaxies: 1997 Update
      Peter L. Biermann
      Landolt-B�nstein, Ed. H.H. Voigt, (in press) 1997

    8. Supernova blast waves and pre-supernova winds: Their cosmic ray contribution
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review chapter in Cosmic winds and the Heliosphere, Eds. J. R. Jokipii et al., Univ. of Arizona press, 1997, p. 887 - 957)
      more...

    9. The domino effect
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited contribution in Book ``The Vatican Observatory Summerschools in Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics - The First Ten Years", Ed. E.J. Maggio, p. 27 - 29, 1997

    10. The Origin of the highest energy cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann
      Journal of Physics G 23, 12, 1997 (invited review)

    11. The supergalactic structure and the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann, Hyesung Kang, and Dongsu Ryu
      invited lecture in Proc."Extremely high energy cosmic rays", Ed. M. Nagano, Univ. of Tokyo, p. 79, 1997
      more...

    12. Unstable waves in winds of magnetic massive stars
      Henning Seemann and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph. 327, 273, 1997
      more...

    13. Women in Science
      Peter L. Biermann
      Editorial in Sterne und Weltraum (German Magazine), 36, p. 619, 1997



    Year 1996


    1. A new estimate of the extragalactic radio background and implications for the ultra high energy gamma ray propagation
      Ray J. Protheroe and Peter L. Biermann
      Astroparticle Physics 6, 45, 1996 (Erratum vol. 7, 181, 1997)
      more...

    2. Black hole, jet, and disk: the universal Engine
      Heino Falcke
      in Jets form Stars and Galactic Nuclei, Springer Lecture Notes vol. 471, p. 19; Ed. W. Kundt, 1996
      more...

    3. Cosmic ray interactions and the abundances of the chemical elements
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited plenary lecture in Proc. Nuclear Physics meeting MESON96 (Cracow), Eds. E. Grosse et al., Jagiellonian University, Acta Physics Polonica, B27, 3399, 1996
      more...

    4. Cosmics rays in radio galaxies: Cyg A
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited lecture at the NRAO Cyg A workshop, Eds. C Carilli and D. Harris, Cambridge Univ. Press, p. 139, 1996

    5. ROSAT PSPC spectra of six PG quasars and PHL1657
      J�g Rachen, Karl Mannheim, and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph., 310, 371, 1996
      more...

    6. Speckle-masking imaging polarimetry of Eta Carina: evidence for an equatorial disk
      Heino Falcke, Kris Davidson, Karl H. Hofmann, and Gerd Weigelt
      Astron. & Astroph. 306, L17, 1996
      more...

    7. The highest energy cosmic rays: Cosmological questions
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited contribution for the Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Hinrich Meyer, Ed. N. Magnussen and W. Rhode, Univ. Wuppertal., p. 107, 1996

    8. The origin of cosmic rays and the radio-far-infrared correlation of galaxies
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited lecture at the Japan-Germany workshop Proc., Ed. Wolfgang J. Duschl, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1996 (in press)

    9. The symbiotic system in quasars: black hole, accretion disk and jet
      Alina C. Donea and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph., 316, 43, 1996
      more...



    Year 1995


    1. Arrival directions of the most energetic cosmic rays
      Todor Stanev, Peter L. Biermann, Jeremy Lloyd-Evans, J�g P. Rachen and Alan Watson
      Phys. Rev. Letters 75, 3056, 1995
      more...

    2. Cosmic rays V. The nonthermal radioemission of the old nova GK Per - a signature of hadronic interactions?
      Peter L. Biermann, Richard G. Strom and Heino Falcke
      Astron. & Astroph. 302, 429, 1995
      more...

    3. Galactic jet sources and the AGN connection
      Heino Falcke and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph., 308, 321, 1995
      more...

    4. Intergalactic matter and cocoons of radio galaxies
      Biman B. Nath
      Monthly Not. Roy. Astr. Soc. 274, 208, 1995
      more...

    5. Kosmische Strahlung - Teilchen mit Energien ber 10^20 eV
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited contribution to Physikalische Bl�ter (German Physical Society) 51, 421, 1995

    6. On the knee of the cosmic ray spectrum
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited contribution to concluding remarks at the Vulcano meeting on Frontier objects in astrophysics and particle physics, Eds. Giovannelli et a., Italian Physical Society, Conf. Proc. 47, Bologna 1995, p. 593

    7. Production and acceleration of cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Vulcano meeting on Frontier objects in astrophysics and particle physics, Eds. Giovannelli et al., Italian Physical Society, Conf. Proc. 47, Bologna 1995, p. 469

    8. Starving accretion disks in the center of galaxies: the examples of Sagittarius A* and M 31
      Heino Falcke and Olaf M. Heinrich
      Astron. & Astroph. 292, 430, 1995
      more...

    9. The jet-disk symbiosis I. Radio to X-ray emission models for quasars
      Heino Falcke and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph. 293, 665, 1995
      more...

    10. The jet-disk symbiosis II. Interpreting the radio/UV correlations in quasars
      Heino Falcke, Matthew A. Malkan and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph. 298, 375, 1995
      more...

    11. The origin of cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review at the Gamow Jubilee Seminar, St. Peterburg, Sept. 1994, Space Science Rev., 74, 385, 1995
      more...

    12. The origin of galactic cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann, Thomas K. Gaisser and Todor Stanev
      Physical Review D 51, 3450, 1995
      more...

    13. The origin of high energy cosmic rays and the large scale structure of the universe
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited contribution for the 5th MPG-CAS meeting; Ed. Z. G. Deng, Nandaihe, China, publ. by Beijing Astrophysical Observatory, Astrophysics Reports 1, p. 11, 1995

    14. The origin of soft X-rays in luminous AGN
      Karl Mannheim, Marcus Schulte, and J�g P. Rachen
      Astron. & Astroph., 303, L41, 1995
      more...

    15. The origin of the cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann
      plenary talk at the meeting Trends in Astroparticle Physics, Stockholm; Ed. L. Bergstr� et al., Elsevier, Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 43, 221, 1995
      more...

    16. Unified schemes for active galaxies: a clue from the missing Fanaroff-Riley type I quasar population
      Heino Falcke, Gopal-Krishna and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph. 298, 395, 1995;
      more...

    17. What is Sgr A*?
      Heino Falcke
      invited review in Unsolved Problems of the Milky Way, IAU Symp. 169, Ed. L. Blitz, P.J. Teuber, Kluwer, Dordrecht, p. 169, 1995
      more...



    Year 1994


    1. AGN and galactic sites of cosmic ray origin
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited review chapter in High Energy Astrophysics; Ed. J. M. Mathews, World Scientific, Singapore, 1994, p. 217
      more...

    2. Computation of cosmic-ray acceleration by It�s stochastic differential equations
      Wolfram M. Krlls and Abraham Achterberg
      Astron. & Astrophys. 286, 314, 1994

    3. Cosmic ray ionization of the interstellar medium
      Biman B. Nath and Peter L. Biermann
      Monthly Not. Roy. Astr. Soc. 267, 447, 1994
      more...

    4. Cosmic rays: origin and acceleration - what can we learn from radio astronomy
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited plenary lecture at 23rd International Conference on Cosmic Rays, in Proc. Invited, Rapporteur and Highlight papers; Eds. D. A. Leahy et al., World Scientific, Singapore, 1994, p. 45

    5. Effects of photoionisation on galaxy formation
      Masashi Chiba and Biman B. Nath
      Astrophys. Journ. 436, 618, 1994
      more...

    6. Gamma line radiation from stellar winds in Orion complex: a test for the theory of cosmic ray origin
      Biman B. Nath and Peter L. Biermann
      Monthly Not. Roy. Astr. Soc. Letters 270, L33, 1994
      more...

    7. The origin of cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann
      brief invited review, Proc. European Workshop on Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis; Eds. E. Somorjai and Z. Flp, 1994, p. 97-102



    Year 1993


    1. A possible forest of emission lines from protogalaxies
      Biman B. Nath and David Eichler
      Monthly Not. Roy. Astr. Soc. 261, L25, 1993
      more...

    2. A rotating black hole in the galactic center
      Heino Falcke, Peter L. Biermann, Wolfgang J. Duschl, and Peter G. Mezger
      Astron. & Astroph. 270, 102, 1993
      more...

    3. Cosmic rays I. The cosmic ray spectrum between 10^4 GeV and 3?10^9 GeV
      Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph. 271; 649, 1993
      more...

    4. Cosmic rays II. Evidence for a magnetic rotator Wolf-Rayet star origin
      Peter L. Biermann and Joseph P. Cassinelli
      Astron. & Astroph. 277, 691, 1993
      more...

    5. Cosmic Rays III. The cosmic ray spectrum between 1 GeV and 10^4 GeV and the radio emission from supernova remnants
      Peter L. Biermann and Richard G. Strom
      Astron. & Astroph. 275, 659, 1993
      more...

    6. Cosmic rays IV. The spectrum and chemical composition above 10^4 GeV
      Todor Stanev, Peter L. Biermann and Thomas K. Gaisser
      Astron. & Astroph. 274, 902, 1993
      more...

    7. Did cosmic rays reionize the intergalactic medium?
      Biman B. Nath and Peter L. Biermann
      Monthly Not. Roy. Astr. Soc. 265, 241, 1993
      more...

    8. Extragalactic ultra high energy cosmic rays II. Comparison with experimental data
      J�g P. Rachen, Todor Stanev and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph. 273, 377, 1993
      more...

    9. Extragalactic ultra-high energy cosmic rays I. Contribution from hot spots in FR-II radio galaxies
      J�g P. Rachen and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph. 272, 161, 1993
      more...

    10. Gamma rays and neutrinos from a powerful cosmic accelerator
      Karl Mannheim
      Physical Review D 48, 2408, 1993
      more...

    11. Highly luminous radiogalaxies as sources of cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited lecture in Currents in Astrophysics and Cosmology, Festschrift 75th birthday of M. M. Shapiro; Eds. G. G. Fazio, R. Silberberg; Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993, p. 12

    12. Molecular clouds as tracers of the dynamics in the central region of the galaxy
      Susanne von Linden, and Wolfgang J. Duschl, and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph. 269, 169, 1993

    13. Molecular clouds close to the Galactic Center
      Peter L. Biermann, Wolfgang J. Duschl, and Susanne von Linden
      Astron. & Astroph. 275, 153, 1993
      more...

    14. Neutrino production through hadronic cascades in AGN accretion disks
      Lukas Nellen, Karl Mannheim and Peter L. Biermann
      Physical Review D 47, 5270, 1993
      more...

    15. Our Galactic Center: a laboratory for the feeding of active galactic nuclei
      Susanne von Linden, Peter L. Biermann, Wolfgang J. Duschl, Harald Lesch and Thomas Schmutzler
      Astron. & Astroph. 280, 468, 1993
      more...

    16. Radiogalaxies and jets
      Peter L. Biermann
      Dublin lectures (invited review) on Central Activity in Galaxies - from observational data to Astrophysical Diagnostics; Eds. A. Sandquist and T. P. Ray; Lectures Notes in Physics 413, Springer, 1993, p. 157

    17. The emission spectra of radioweak quasars. I. The far-infrared emission
      Martina Niemeyer and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph. 279, 393, 1993
      more...

    18. The Galactic Center radio jet
      Heino Falcke, Karl Mannheim and Peter L. Biermann
      Astron. & Astroph. Letters 278, L1, 1993
      more...

    19. The origin of cosmic rays
      Peter L. Biermann
      invited lecture at the 4th MPG-CAS Workshop on High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology, Ringberg-Castle; Eds. G. B�ner and T. Buchert, MPA/P8, 1993, p. 46

    20. The proton blazar
      Karl Mannheim
      Astron. & Astroph. 269, 67, 1993
      more...



    Year 1992


    1. The missing x-rays in Sgr A*: evidence for - not against - a supermassive black hole
      Heino Falcke and Peter L. Biermann
      in Jets from Stars and Galactic Nuclei, Springer Lecture Notes, 1992
      more...

    2. X-ray observations of flat spectrum radio sources with the HEAO-A, Einstein and EXOSAT observatories
      Peter L. Biermann, Schaaf, R., Pietsch, W., Schmutzler, T., Witzel, A., Kuehr, H.
      in Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, vol. 96, no. 2, p. 339-349
    3. Neutrinos from flat-spectrum radio quasars
      Mannheim, K., Stanev, T. and Peter L. Biermann
      in Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 260, no. 1-2, p. L1-L3
    4. Evidence for heavy element dust clumps from the increasing 1300 micron emission from supernova 1987 A
      Peter L. Biermann, Chini, R., Haslam, C. G. T., Kreysa, E., Lemke, R., Sievers, A.
      in Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 255, no. 1-2, p. L5-L8
    5. Gamma-ray flaring of 3C 279 - A proton-initiated cascade in the jet?
      Mannheim, K., Biermann, P. L.
      in Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 253, no. 2, Jan. 1992, p. L21-L24
    6. Neutrino spectra from active galactic nuclei - the disk component
      Peter L. Biermann
      in High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics, Proceedings of the Workshop held 23-26 March, 1992 in Honolulu, HI. Edited by V.J. Stenger, J.G. Learned, S. Pakvasa, and X. Tata. Singapore: World-Scientific, 1992., p.86




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