Ebook: Astrophysical Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation

A wide range of topics are covered, ranging from supernovae to active galactic nuclei, cosmic gamma rays to neutrinos and dark matter. The basic emphasis is on physics / astrophysics and experimental / observational techniques, scientific implications of current results, and prospects for future advances. The fields surveyed are in rapid development and the exploration of our high energy universe is proceeding rapidly, with exciting new discoveries. What unifies much of the new data is the idea of particle acceleration to enormous energies and the subsequent interactions of the particles with the local medium. It this focus that makes the book both timely and an important contribution to the field.

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A wide range of topics are covered, ranging from supernovae to active galactic nuclei, cosmic gamma rays to neutrinos and dark matter. The basic emphasis is on physics / astrophysics and experimental / observational techniques, scientific implications of current results, and prospects for future advances. The fields surveyed are in rapid development and the exploration of our high energy universe is proceeding rapidly, with exciting new discoveries. What unifies much of the new data is the idea of particle acceleration to enormous energies and the subsequent interactions of the particles with the local medium. It this focus that makes the book both timely and an important contribution to the field.

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A wide range of topics are covered, ranging from supernovae to active galactic nuclei, cosmic gamma rays to neutrinos and dark matter. The basic emphasis is on physics / astrophysics and experimental / observational techniques, scientific implications of current results, and prospects for future advances. The fields surveyed are in rapid development and the exploration of our high energy universe is proceeding rapidly, with exciting new discoveries. What unifies much of the new data is the idea of particle acceleration to enormous energies and the subsequent interactions of the particles with the local medium. It this focus that makes the book both timely and an important contribution to the field.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Theory of Cosmic Ray and High-Energy Gamma-Ray Production in Supernova Remnants....Pages 1-17
Hadronic Collisions at Very High Energies....Pages 19-24
Electron Acceleration by Quasi-Parallel Shock Waves....Pages 25-30
Magnetohydrodynamic Wind Driven by Cosmic Rays in a Rotating Galaxy....Pages 31-42
Supernovae, Superbubbles, Nonthermal Emission & Light Element Nucleosynthesis in the Galaxy....Pages 43-64
Cosmic Ray Interactions in the Galactic Center Region....Pages 65-79
Dark Matter Halo of Our Galaxy....Pages 81-91
A New Model for the Thermal X-Ray Composites and the Proton Origin ?-Rays from Supernova Remnants....Pages 93-100
Evolution of Isolated Neutron Stars....Pages 101-110
High Energy Outburst of Recurrent Transient Pulsar A0535+26....Pages 111-114
High Energy Particles in Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 115-133
Galactic Clues About the High-Energy Processes in BL Lac (AGN) Jets....Pages 135-141
Nonthermal Phenomena in Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 143-150
Correlation and Clustering....Pages 151-160
The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect and its Cosmological Significance....Pages 161-171
An Overview on GeV-TeV Gamma Ray Astronomy: Past-Present-Future....Pages 173-190
A Brief Introduction to the Study of Afterglows of Gamma Ray Bursts....Pages 191-201
Searches for Tev ?-Ray Emission with the Hegra Cherenkov Telescopes....Pages 203-217
Variable Gamma Ray Sources, 1: Interactions of Flare Energetic Particles with Solar and Stellar Winds....Pages 219-230
Variables Gamma Ray Sources, 2: Interactions of Galactic Cosmic Rays with Solar and Stellar Winds....Pages 231-243
Comets as X-Ray Objects....Pages 245-250
Cosmic Ray Origin: General Overview....Pages 251-262
Galactic Cosmic Ray Composition: From the Anomalous Component to the Knee....Pages 263-273
Low Energy Cosmic Ray Nuclei and their Propagation in the Galaxy....Pages 275-304
Reacceleration of Galactic Cosmic Rays: Secondary Electron Capture Isotopes Measured by the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer....Pages 305-309
The Astrophysics of Ultra-Heavy Galactic Cosmic Rays (and How we Can Detect Them)....Pages 311-315
L3+Cosmics: an atmospheric muon experiment at CERN....Pages 317-323
Nuclear Paleoastrophysics: Prospects and Perspectives....Pages 325-330
H.E.S.S. - The High Energy Stereoscopic System....Pages 331-343
Development of Atmospheric Cherenkov Detectors at Milagro....Pages 345-348
NEMO: NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory....Pages 349-354
Back Matter....Pages 355-361
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