EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The XIVth "Rencontres de Moriond" were held in Méribel (Savoie, France) on march 12-19, 1994 on the topic "Clusters of Galaxies". This subject was chosen because clusters of galaxies are critically important in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology for both theoretical and observational reasons.

(Extracted from the foreword, by the editors).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Avant-propos.

-Foreword.

-Conference Programme.

-Contents.

-Invited and Contributed Papers.

-News on Dark-Matter in Galaxies and Clusters.
-Cluster Dynamics and Cluster Masses (I).
-Substructure: Clues to Cluster Formation.
-Fractal Cold Gas as Dark Matter in Galaxies and Clusters.
-Luminosity Functions of Poor Clusters.
-Internal Dynamics of ESO Key-Programme Clusters.
-Optical Radii of 90 Galaxy Clusters.
-The Mass of the Virgo Cluster Inferred from Infall.
-A New Survey in the Central Parts of the Coma Cluster.
-M1-M* Correlation in Galaxy Clusters.
-A Measurement of Diffuse Light in Abell 665.
-The Effect of the Cluster Environment on Galaxies (I).
-Spirals in Clusters do not have Falling Rotation Curves.
-X-Ray Evolution of Clusters of Galaxies (I).
-The Butcher-Oemler Effect in Radio Selected Groups of Galaxies.
-Radio Properties of Galaxies in Clusters (I).
-Quantitative Results from WF/PC Imaging of the Distant, Rich Cluster 0016 + 16.
-Interactions and the Blue Galaxies in Distant Clusters.
-The Dynamical State of High Redshift Clusters.
-Fabry-Perot and Multi-Filter Observations of Distant Galaxy Clusters.
-Color Evolution of Cluster Galaxies from z=0 to z=1.
-Large Scale Morphological Segregation in Galaxy Catalogs.
-The Structure of Clusters of Galaxies as Observed by ROSAT (I).
-Observation of the X-Ray Cluster A2256 with ROSAT.
-ASCA Data on Galaxy Clusters.
-Temperature Structure and Heavy Element Distribution in the X-Ray Emitting ICM.
-X-Ray Spectra of Clusters of Galaxies.
-A Search for Substructures in 11 ROSAT Clusters Using Wavelet Techniques.
-Model-Free Derivation of the Mass Distribution from X-Ray Images of Clusters.
-Gas Structures in the Cores of Clusters (I).
-X-Ray, Radio, and Optical Structures in Cooling Flow Clusters.
-Optical Spectroscopy of the ROSAT X-Ray Brightest Clusters.
-The Reliability of X-Ray Constraints on Intrinsic Cluster Shapes.
-The Enrichment of the Intra-Cluster Medium.
-Iron as a Tracer in Clusters of Galaxies.
-ROSAT Studies of Compact Galaxy Groups.
-The Sunyaev-Zeld'dovich Effect in Clusters.
-Simulations of Clusters of Galaxies (I).
-Models of the ICM with Ejection from Galaxies.
-Simulations of Clusters Using Hydra: Adaptative PPPM + SPH.
-The Mass Function in the Adhesion Model.
-The Fundamental Plane of Galaxy Clusters.
-Mapping the Dark Matter in Clusters.
-X-Ray Emission and S-Z Effect from Clusters of Galaxies: Implications for Cosmology.
-Dominant Galaxies in Bimodal Clusters.
-The Galaxy Group/Cosmology Connections.
-The Filtering Evolution of Peaks.
-Mass Distributions in Luminous X-Ray Clusters.
-The Zero-Point of the Cluster Cluster Correlation Function.
-Rich Clusters of Galaxies and the Origin of Structure in the Universe (I).
-Superclusters on the Sky.
-Observations of Clusters Correlations (I).
-Arcs and Arclets in Clusters of Galaxies (I).
-Applications of Gravitationally Lensed Long Arcs in Clusters of Galaxies.
-Simulations of Gravitational Lensing by Clusters of Galaxies.

-Poster Papers (26).

-List of Participants.

OUR REVIEW

The presence of the great observation media in space as well as the improvements in the instruments on Earth are giving a tremendous impulse to what we could call "macroastronomy". The clusters of galaxies are some of the biggest structures existing in the universe, and, from their study, interesting and basic cosmological implications affecting the future of the Cosmos can be deducted.

That`s why such an important topic could not fail to be frequently updated. In this sense, the already famous "Encounters of Moriond", a necessary meeting for the European astronomy, and in actual fact for astronomy all over the world, have become a perfect setting to present the latest theories and discoveries in this respect. Therefore, the papers here presented quite often are the fruit of years of research, works which merit their being made available to the scientific community.

The book, then, is aimed at professionals and advanced students, as well as anyone having a genuine interests in astrophysics and cosmology.