Screen LibraryVery high energy cosmic gamma radiation : a crucial window on the extreme universe /
Gamma ray astronomy, the branch of high energy astrophysics that studies the sky in energetic [symbol]-ray photons, is destined to play a crucial role in the exploration of nonthermal phenomena in the Universe in their most extreme and violent forms. The great potential of this discipline offers imp...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2004. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/4657#t=toc |
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Gamma ray astronomy, the branch of high energy astrophysics that studies the sky in energetic [symbol]-ray photons, is destined to play a crucial role in the exploration of nonthermal phenomena in the Universe in their most extreme and violent forms. The great potential of this discipline offers impressive coverage of many "hot topics" of modern astrophysics and cosmology, such as the origin of galactic and extragalactic cosmic rays, particle acceleration and radiation processes under extreme astrophysical conditions, and the search for dark matter. The recent observational results and excit |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv,495pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-491) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789812561732 (electronic bk.) |
| CLC: | P172.3 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction. 1.1. "The last electromagnetic window". 1.2. Energy domains of gamma ray astronomy. 1.3. Gamma ray astronomy: a discipline in its own right -- 2. Status of the field. 2.1. Low energy gamma ray sources. 2.2. High energy gamma ray sources. 2.3. The status of ground-based gamma ray astronomy -- 3. Gamma ray production and absorption mechanisms. 3.1. Interactions with matter. 3.2. Interactions with photon fields. 3.3. Interactions with magnetic fields. 3.4. Relativistic electron-photon cascades -- 4. Gamma rays and origin of galactic cosmic rays. 4.1. Origin of galactic cosmic r |