New Insights into the Universe

The lectures of this summer school address astrophysicists and especially graduate students. The authors present observational data gathered by artificial satellites and ground-based telescopes. The findings are compared with theoretical cosmological models.

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Statistics of cosmological density fields.- Large-scale structures and motions: Linear theory and statistics.- Clusters of galaxies as probes for the large scale structure.- Galaxy formation with gravitation, hydrodynamics and active star formation.- Secondary anisotropies in the CMB.- The Relikt missions: Results and prospects to detect the microwave background anisotropy.- ROSAT observations of clusters of galaxies.- Statistics of gravitational lensing 1: Strong lenses.- Statistics of gravitational lensing 2: Weak lenses.