E-Book, Englisch, Band 30, 295 Seiten
Reihe: Saas-Fee Advanced Course
Kahn / Ballmoos / Sunyaev High-Energy Spectroscopic Astrophysics
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-3-540-27013-3
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Saas Fee Advanced Course 30. Lecture Notes 2000. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
E-Book, Englisch, Band 30, 295 Seiten
Reihe: Saas-Fee Advanced Course
ISBN: 978-3-540-27013-3
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
After three decades of intense research in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, the time was ripe to summarize basic knowledge on X-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy for interested students and researchers ready to become involved in new high-energy missions. This volume exposes both the scientific basics and modern methods of high-energy spectroscopic astrophysics. The emphasis is on physical principles and observing methods rather than a discussion of particular classes of high-energy objects, but many examples and new results are included in the three chapters as well.
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1;Preface;5
2;Contents;8
3;List of Previous Saas-Fee Advanced Courses;11
4;Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Plasmas;14
4.1;1 Introduction;14
4.2;2 Classical and Quantum Radiation Theory;20
4.3;3 The Structure of Multi-Electron Atoms;35
4.4;4 Electron-Ion Collisional Processes;52
4.5;5 Types of Equilibria;68
4.6;6 Discrete Line Diagnostics;81
4.7;7 Concluding Remarks;91
4.8;References;92
5;Instruments for Nuclear Astrophysics;94
5.1;1 Introduction;94
5.2;2 Interaction of High Energy Photons with Matter;109
5.3;3 Detectors;132
5.4;4 The Instruments for Nuclear Astronomy;160
5.5;Acknowledgments;204
5.6;References;204
6;Hard X-Ray and Gamma Ray Spectroscopy;210
6.1;1 Fundamentals of Compton Scattering;211
6.2;2 Comptonization in Infinite Homogeneous Media;223
6.3;3 Comptonization in Bounded Plasma Clouds;245
6.4;4 Interaction of X-Rays with Partially Ionized Media;260
6.5;5 6.4-keV Fluorescent Emission from Molecular Clouds in the Galactic Center;275
6.6;6 X-Ray Emission from Supernova 1987A;280
6.7;7 Accretion onto Black Holes and Neutron Stars;283
6.8;References;289
7;Index;295
