Vol. 80 n. 4, 2009

Multifrequency behaviour of high energy cosmic sources

Frascati Workshop 2009 Silver Jubilee, Vulcano, Sicily, Italy, May 25-30, 2009

F. Giovannelli and L. Sabau-Graziati

	Index
Paolo Molaro and Elisabeth Vangioni	Foreword

Theoretical aspects

K.A. Olive	Variable constants - A theoretical overview
J.P. Uzan	Fundamental constants, general relativity and cosmology
L. Kraiselburd, M.M. Mileer Bertolami, P. Sisterna and H. Vucetich	Energy conservation and constants variation
J. Racker, P. Sisterna and H. Vucetich	Thermodynamics in variable speed of light theories
Y. Fujii	Accelerating universe and the time-dependent fine-structure constant
N.J. Nunes, T. Dent, C.J.A.P. Martins and G. Robbers	Reconstructing the evolution of dark energy with variations of fundamental parameters
D.J. Shaw and J.D. Barrow	Varying constants: constraints from seasonal variations
J.C. Berengut, V.A. Dzuba, V.V. Flambaun, J.A. King, M.G. Kozlov, M.T. Murphy and J.K. Webb	Searching for space-time variation of the fine structure constant using QSO spectra: overview and future prospects
J.S. Alcaniz	Transient cosmic acceleration

Astronomical bounds

K.A. Olive	The effects of coupling variations on BBN
A. Coc, S. Ekström, P. Descouvemont, G. Meynet, K. A. Olive, J.Ph. Uzan and E. Vangioni	Constraints on the variations of fundamental couplings by stellar models
C.G. Scoccola, S.J. Landau and H. Vucetich	WMAP 5-year constraints on time variation of α and m_e
J. Isern, E. Garcia Berro and P. Loren Aguilar	SNIa, white dwarfs and the variation of the gravitational constant
R. Khatri and B.D. Wandelt	21 cm radiation: a new probe of fundamental physics
A. Reisenegger, P. Jofré and R. Fernandez	Constraining a possible time-variation of the gravitational constant through "gravitochemical heating'' of neutron stars

QSO's observations

M.T. Murphy, J.K. Webb and V. Flambaum	Keck constraints on a varying fine-structure constant: wavelength calibration errors
R Srianand, P.Petitjean, H.Chand, P.Noterdaeme and N.Gupta	Probing the variation of fundamental constants using QSO absorption lines
S.A. Levshakov, I.I. Agafonova, P. Molaro and D. Reimers	Spatial and temporal variations of fundamental constants
P. Petitjean, P. Noterdaeme, R. Srianand, C. Ledoux, A. Ivanchik and N. Gupta	Searching for places where to test the variations of fundamental constants
J.A. King, D.J. Mortlock, J.K. Webb and M.T. Murphy	Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods applied to measuring the fine structure constant from quasar spectroscopy
R. Thompson	Observational determinations of the proton to electron mass ratio in the early Universe
M. Wendt, D. Reimers and P. Molaro	Cosmological observations to shed light on possible variations
A.L. Malec, R. Buning, M.T. Murphy, N. Milutinovic, S.L. Ellison, J.X. Prochaska, L. Kaper, J. Tumlinson, R.F. Carswell and W. Ubachs	New limit on a varying proton-to-electron mass ratio from high-resolution optical quasar spectra
F. Combes	Radio measurements of constant variation, and perspectives with ALMA
N. Kanekar	Probing fundamental constant evolution with radio spectroscopy
M.G. Kozlov, A.V. Lapinov and S.A. Levshakov	Sensitivity of microwave and FIR spectra to variation of fundamental constants
A. Vecchiato, M. Gai, P. Donati, R. Morbidelli, M. Crosta and G. Lattanzi	GAME
P. Molaro	New spectrographs for the VLT and E-ELT suited for the measurement of fundamental constants

Posters

L. Kraiselburd and H. Vucetich	The breaking of the equivalence principle in theories with varying α
R.S. Goncalves, J.S. Alcaniz, A. Dev and D. Jain	Constraining dark matter-dark energy interaction with gas mass fraction in galaxy clusters
. Olivares-Salaverri and M.B. Ribeiro	Cosmological models and the brightness profile of distant galaxies
M. Centurion, P. Molaro and S.A. Levshakov	Calibration issues in δα/α

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