InhaltsangabeGeneral Relativity as a Tool for Astrophysics.- Cosmological Dark Matter as Seen with Weak Gravitational Lensing.- Gravitational Microlensing: Machos and Quasars.- Laser-Interferometric Gravitational WaveDetectors - on the Ground and in Deep Space.- Light Deflection Near Neutron Stars.- Magnetohydrodynamics of Rotating Black Holes.- Thin Accretion Disks around Black Holes.- Low-Frequency Oscillations of Relativistic Accretion Disks.- Relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamics and Shocks in Gamma-Ray Bursts.- Instabilities of Rotating Neutron Stars.- The Fate of Stars in the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes.- Newtonian and Post-Newtonian Calculations of Coalescing Compact Binaries.- Quasinormal Ringdown: The Late Stage of Neutron Star Mergers.- A General Relativistic Approach to Neutron Star Binary Evolution.- A Forty-Year Search for the Hubble Constant.- Experimental Gravity.

Hans-Peter Nollert (Penn State University, USA), Harald Riffert (U Tübingen), Hanns Ruder (U Tübingen) und Friedrich W. Hehl (U Köln) forschen alle auf den verschiedenen Teilgebieten der Astrophysik. Prof. Dr. Hanns Ruder ist außerdem Leiter der entsprechenden Fachgruppe der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG).