Author: Miguel F MoralesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gamma-ray bursts
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A Search for Tev Gamma-ray Burst Emission with the Milagro Observatory
Author: Miguel F MoralesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gamma-ray bursts
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Gamma-Ray Bursts: 30 Years of Discovery
Author: E.E. FenimorePublisher: American Institute of Physics
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
In the last thirty years, gamma-ray bursts have grown from an oddity to a central position in astrophysics. Not only are they the largest explosions since the big bang, capable of flooding most of the universe with gamma-rays, but their brilliance serves as a backlight that can illuminate the cosmos far deeper into the early universe than any other object. Their unpredictability has forced researchers to use extreme measures to observe them: completely autonomous satellites and robotic ground-based telescopes. Their bizarre physical properties have pushed us to develop new theories of astrophysical explosions. Topics include: global properties of GRBs; X-ray flashes; ultra-high energy gamma-rays, neutrinos, gravity waves; prompt emission and early afterglows; relativistic jets and polarization; GRB030329; GRB progenitors; GRB connection to supernovae; dark versus bright GRBs; late afterglows; GRBs and cosmology; general observations; general theory; analysis and observation techniques; present satellites; Swift satellite; future satellites; and robotic observing systems.
New Worlds In Astroparticle Physics - Proceedings Of The International Workshop
Author: Ana Maria MouraoPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814545139
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The proceedings of the first meeting on “New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics” focus on the joint field of particle physics and astrophysics. This is a field widely open to both theory and experiment. Important questions of particle physics — from the role of the Higgs scalar to the deconfined QCD phase, the developments beyond the Standard Model and the subtle behavior of neutrinos — are discussed. The same is true for the relevant questions in astrophysics and cosmology — from the fluctuations in the photon background radiation to large scale structure formation, dark matter searches and the origin of cosmic rays at very high energies. The two viewpoints, from the small sizes or from the large scales, are convergent and reveal the same universe: the universe of astroparticle physics.
TeV Gamma-Ray Astrophysics
Author: Heinrich J. VölkPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400901712
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The `International Heidelberg Workshop on TeV Gamma-Ray Astrophysics' brought together astrophysicists from the various fields which play a role in the formation of high energy gamma-ray emission. In particular, theoretical and observational aspects of the physics and astrophysics of pulsars and quasars, the acceleration of particles at Supernova Remnants and other strong astrophysical shock fronts, and cascade processes in universal background photon fields were comprehensively discussed in more than thirty reviews by leading experts. In their entirety these reviews describe the birth of a new field of astronomy. This field concerns cosmic gamma-rays of very high energy which are observed with ground-based optical telescopes due to the Cherenkov emission of the secondary particles created by the interaction of these gamma-rays with atoms in the Earth's atmosphere. Beyond that, the workshop encompassed the latest developments and trends in theory and observation of cosmic gamma-ray sources of all energies, from nuclear gamma-ray lines in the MeV-region, through the Bremsstrahlung, Inverse Compton, and pion decay continuum emission, to gamma-rays due the decay of exotic relics from the early Universe. Audience: Specialists as well as students in physics and astrophysics and young research workers.
Astronomy with Radioactivities
Author: Roland DiehlPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642126979
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
This book introduces the reader to the field of nuclear astrophysics, i.e. the acquisition and reading of measurements on unstable isotopes in different parts of the universe. The authors explain the role of radioactivities in astrophysics, discuss specific sources of cosmic isotopes and in which special regions they can be observed. More specifically, the authors address stars of different types, stellar explosions which terminate stellar evolutions, and other explosions triggered by mass transfers and instabilities in binary stars. They also address nuclear reactions and transport processes in interstellar space, in the contexts of cosmic rays and of chemical evolution. A special chapter is dedicated to the solar system which even provides material samples. The book also contains a description of key tools which astrophysicists employ in those particular studies and a glossary of key terms in astronomy with radioactivities.
New Insights on Gamma Rays
Author: Ahmed M. MaghrabyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9535131613
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Gamma radiation has been discovered since more than a century and contributed in many achievements in human life. Continuous developments make it necessary to have more understandings and more discussions about well-established concepts as well as newly implemented hypothesis and applications of gamma rays. This book presents new visions of gamma ray spectrometry and applications. I hope this book can present part of the useful applications of gamma rays.
Proceedings
Author: The Gamma-Ray Observatory
Author: Gamma-Ray Burst
Author: Charles MeeganPublisher: American Institute of Physics
ISBN: 9780735406704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This was a technical symposium for astrophysicists working on gamma-ray bursts. It included discussions on the latest theoretical and experimental research on this topic, as well as plans for the next generation of orbiting instrumentation. The proceedings will be useful for specialists in the area of gamma-ray burst astronomy.
Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Author: T.C. WeekesPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420033190
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
High energy gamma-ray photons are the prime probes of the relativistic or high-energy universe, populated by black holes, neutron stars, supernovae, quasars, and matter-antimatter annihilations. Through studying the gamma-ray sky, astrophysicists are able to better understand the formation and behavior of these exotic and energetic bodies. V