High Energy Astrophysics
ISBN: 9780521756181 | 0521756189
Edition: 3rdFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 3/14/2011
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The third edition of this well-established textbook is ideal for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses in high energy astrophysics. Now consolidated into a single-volume treatment, this textbook has been completely rewritten, providing a strong astronomical and astrophysical background for students to explore more advanced topics.
Providing students with an in-depth account of the astrophysics of high energy phenomena in the Universe, the third edition of this well-established textbook is ideal for ... MORE
Providing students with an in-depth account of the astrophysics of high energy phenomena in the Universe, the third edition of this well-established textbook is ideal for ... MORE
| Astronomical Background | |
| High energy astrophysics - an introduction | |
| The stars and stellar evolution | |
| The galaxies | |
| Clusters of galaxies | |
| Physical Processes | |
| Ionisation losses | |
| Radiation of accelerated charged particles and bremsstrahlung of electrons | |
| The dynamics of charged particles in magnetic fields | |
| Syn... MORE | |
| Interactions of high energy photons | |
| Nuclear interactions | |
| Aspects of plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics | |
| High Energy Astrophysics in our Galaxy | |
| Interstellar gas and magnetic fields | |
| Dead stars | |
| Accretion power in astrophysics | |
| Cosmic rays | |
| The origin of cosmic rays in our galaxy | |
| The acceleration of high energy particles | |
| Extragalactic High Energy Astrophysics | |
| Active galaxies | |
| Black holes in the nuclei of galaxies | |
| The vicinity of the black hole | |
| Extragalactic radio sources | |
| Compact extragalactic sources and superluminal motions | |
| Cosmological aspects of high energy astrophysics | |
| Appendix | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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