High-energy astrophysics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2009.
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| Series: | Princeton series in astrophysics
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction and motivation. The field of high-energy astrophysics
- Energies, luminosities, and timescales
- Atmospheric absorption
- Experimental tools of high energy astrophysics
- High-energy telescopes
- The high-energy sky. X-ray maps up to 10 keV
- The sky between 10 keV and 1 MeV
- Surveys up to 30 MeV
- The highest energy maps produced in earth orbit
- Relativity. Special relativity
- Relativistic transformation of physical laws
- General relativity
- Static spacetimes
- Particle acceleration. Gravity
- Electromagnetic fields
- Fermi acceleration
- Radiative processes. The radiation field
- Intensity
- Thermal Bremsstrahlung
- Single particle synchrotron emissivity
- Thermal synchrotron
- Nonthermal synchrotron
- Compton scattering
- Accretion of plasma. Hydrodynamics
- Bondi-Hoyle accretion
- Roche lobe geometry in binaries and accretion from a companion star
- Formation of a disk. Accretion disk theory
- Viscosity and radial disk structure
- Standard thin disk theory
- Accretion columns
- Two-temperature thin disks
- Thick accretion disks. Thick-disk structure
- Radiatively inefficient flows
- Pulsing sources. Radio pulsars
- X-ray pulsars
- Cataclysmic variables
- Black holes in binaries. Early discovery of black holes
- The archetypal HMXB Cygnus X-1
- X-ray Novae
- QPOs in black-hole binaries
- Bursting stars. X-ray burst sources
- Gamma-ray burst sources
- Supermassive black holes in AGNs. Their discovery and identification
- Nearby objects
- Supermassive black holes in AGNs
- The high-energy background. Cosmic rays
- Galaxy clusters
- Diffuse emission.