Relativistic astrophysics and cosmology - Einstein's legacy : proceedings of the MPE/USM/MPA/ESO Joint Astronomy Conference held in Munich, Germany, 7-11 November 2005

Cosmology. - Structure Formation in a Variable Dark Energy Model and Observational Constraints. - Effect of the Rotation of the Universe on the Energy Levels of Hydrogen Atoms. - Modified Chaplygin Gas and Accelerated Universe. - Spherically Symmetric, Static Spacetimes in a Tensor-Vector-Scalar Theory. - Type Ia Supernovae and Cosmology. - Path and Path Deviation Equations in Kaluza-Klein Type Theories: A Brief Introduction. - Studying Dark Energy with Galaxy Clusters. - Astrophysical Tests of Fundamental Physics. - Slow-roll Corrections to Inflation Fluctuations on a Brane. - Statistical Mechanics of the SDSS Galaxy Distribution. - The Second-Order Cosmological Perturbation and the Large Scale Structure Formation. - Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies. - Lagrangian Description for the Cosmic Fluid. - Mach's Principle and a Variable Speed of Light. - A Century of Cosmology. - Gravity. - The Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Cold Dark Matter Halos. - Gravitational Wave from Realistic Stellar Collapse : Odd Parity Perturbation. - Finding the Electromagnetic Counterparts of Standard Sirens. - Strong-Field Tests of Gravity with the Double Pulsar. - The Relativistic Time Delay of the Pulsar Radiation in the Non-Stationary Gravitational Field of the Globular Clusters. - Relativistic Bose-Einstein Condensation Model for Dark Matter and Dark Energy. - Equilibrium Configurations of Degenerate Fermionic Dark Matter and the Black Hole Mass Hierarchy. - Hardening in a Stellar Time-Evolving Background: Prospects for LISA. - Gravitational Waves for Odd Parity from a Collapsing Dust Ball. - Black Holes. - The Supermassive Black-Hole Mass Estimation in the Sy1.9 Galaxy SBS 0748+499. - Accretion of Stellar Winds in the Galactic Centre. - Winds Driven by Line Opacity near Neutron Stars and Black Holes. - Inspiral of Double Black Holes in Gaseous Nuclear Disks. - The Cosmogony of Super-Massive Black Holes. - The Flare Activity of Sagittarius A. - Mass Function of Remnant Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies. - Tidal Capture by a Black Hole and Flares in Galactic Centres. - Low-Rate Accretion onto Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Holes. - Clumps of material orbiting a black hole and the QPOs. - Multi-Scale Simulations of Merging Galaxies with Supermassive Black Holes. - The Parallel Lives of Supermassive Black Holes and~their Host Galaxies. - The Polarization Properties of Sgr A? at Submillimeter Wavelengths. - Highlights of XMM-Newton Observations of Black Holes. - Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes. - Active Galactic Nuclei. - AGN and XRB Variability: Propagating-Fluctuation Models. - The Source of Variable Optical Emission is Localized in the Jet of the Radio Galaxy 3C 390.3. - XMM-Newton RGS Spectra in Type 2 Seyfert Galaxies. - First Results from the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South (E-CDF-S) Survey. - The Optical and X-ray Properties of AGN in COSMOS. - Relativistic Iron Lines at High Redshifts. - An Explanation for the Soft X-Ray Excess in Active Galactic Nuclei. - Extended Inverse-Compton Emission from Distant, Powerful Radio Galaxies. - The Most Distant Radio Quasar as seen with the Highest Resolution. - Investigating Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 with X-Ray Spectral Complexity. - A Survey of Gaussian Flares in AGN. - A Simple Model for Quasar Density Evolution. - The Dispersion of the MIR - Hard X-ray Correlation in AGN. - Gamma-Ray Probe of the QSO's Obscured Evolution. - Optical Observations of SBS1520+530 at TUG. - Less is More? Are Radiogalaxies below the Fanaroff-Riley Break More Polarised on Pc-Scales? - Relativistic Effects on the Observed AGN Luminosity Distribution and Spectral Shape of Seyfert Galaxies. - Nuclear Activity in Galaxies driven by Binary Supermassive Black Holes. - Extragalactic Photon Background above GeV Energies: High Peaked BL Lacertae Objects or Dark Matter? - Resolving the Dust Tori in AGN with the VLT Interferometer. - Iron K Lines of AGN in the X-Ray Background. - Black Hole Mass and Growth Rate and Metal Enrichment at Low and High Redshift. - Is the Light Bending Effect at Work in the Core of NGC 4051? - Jet Activity in Supermassive Binary Black Holes. - Statistics of Local Hard X-Ray Selected AGN: Contribution of Obscured Accretion Onto Supermassive Black Holes. - 3D-Models of Clumpy Tori in Seyfert Galaxies. - Clusters of Galaxies. - Cosmological Tests with Galaxy Clusters. - Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies: Switching from Very Bright to Very Dim. - Metal Enrichment of the ICM due to Ram-Pressure Stripping of Cluster Galaxies. - Radio Bubbles in Clusters: Relativistic Particle Content. - The XMM-Newton Distant Cluster Project. - Tracing the Mass-Assembly History of Galaxies with Deep Surveys. - Outbursts from Supermassive Black Holes and their Impacts on the Hot Gas in Early-Type Galaxies, Groups and Clusters. - Tracing Gas Motions in the Centaurus Cluster. - Simulations of Galactic Winds and Starbursts in Galaxy Clusters. - The ARCRAIDER Project: A Unique Sample of X-Ray Bright, Massive Gravitational Lensing Galaxy Clusters. - APEX-SZ: A Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Cluster Survey. - Detecting Virialization Shocks Around Galaxy Clusters Through the SZ Effect. - Numerical Simulations of Metal Enrichment and Mergers in Clusters of Galaxies. - Turbulence in Galaxy Clusters: Impact ontheAbundance Profiles. - Studying the Nature of Dark Energy with Galaxy Clusters. - Hydrodynamical Simulations of Cluster Formation withCentral AGN Heating. - Metal Enrichment Processes in the Intra-Cluster Medium. - Ultraviolet-Bright, High-Redshift ULIRGS. - Gamma Ray Bursts. - The Correlation between ? F? Peak Energy and radiated Energy in Gamma-Ray Bursts. - Particle Acceleration and Radiative Losses at Relativistic Shocks. - The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission: First Results. - The Afterglow of the Gamma-Ray Burst 050502a: First Case of an Early ( Instabilities in Relativistic Jets. - Forced Oscillations in Relativistic Accretion Disks and QPOs. - QPOs: Einstein's Gravity Non-Linear Resonances. - Cosmic-Ray Acceleration and Viscosity. - Gamma-Ray Emission from Microquasars: Leptonic vs. Hadronic Models. - Magnetized Supernovae and Pulsar Recoils. - Jet Deceleration: the Case of PKS 1136-135. - Some Conclusions on The Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars in Atoll and Z Sources. - Conference Summary. - Einstein's Legacy: a Summary.