INDEX absorption due to dust, 85­86, 103, 173 due to metals, 27, 39, 85, 103, 116­120, 126, 131, 175, 185, 189 extrinsic, 86 photoelectric, 52, 75, 86, 98 X-ray, 78­80, 114 accretion, 65, 231 efficiency of, 65, 66 accretion disk, 38, 65, 139­141, 149, 153, 221 afterglows bumps and wiggles, 103 discovery of, 26 dust absorption of, 85­86, synchrotron blastwave theory of, 91­92, 98, 100, 103 theory of, 91 Amati, Lorenzo, 199 American Astronomical Society, 7 Amsterdam University, 26 angular momentum, 149­150 anomalous X-ray pulsars, 16, 136 ASCA, 75 Astrophysical Journal, 6 asymptotic giant branch (AGB), 174, 175 Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), 213