Author: Mark Andrew SkinnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A Search for Very High Energy Gamma Rays from the Crab
Author: Mark Andrew SkinnerA Search for Very High Energy Gamma Rays from the Crab Pulsar-nebula
Author: Almus Thomas KenterPublisher:
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Category : Crab Nebula
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Revealing the Most Energetic Light from Pulsars and Their Nebulae
Author: David Carreto FidalgoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030241947
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book reports on the extraordinary observation of TeV gamma rays from the Crab Pulsar, the most energetic light ever detected from this type of object. It presents detailed information on the painstaking analysis of the unprecedentedly large dataset from the MAGIC telescopes, and comprehensively discusses the implications of pulsed TeV gamma rays for state-of-the-art pulsar emission models. Using these results, the book subsequently explores new testing methodologies for Lorentz Invariance Violation, in terms of a wavelength-dependent speed of light. The book also covers an updated search for Very-High-Energy (VHE), >100 GeV, emissions from millisecond pulsars using the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite, as well as a study on the promising Pulsar Wind Nebula candidate PSR J0631. The observation of VHE gamma rays is essential to studying the non-thermal sources of radiation in our Universe. Rotating neutron stars, also known as pulsars, are an extreme source class known to emit VHE gamma rays. However, to date only two pulsars have been detected with emissions above 100 GeV, and our understanding of their emission mechanism is still lacking.
Very-high-energy Gamma-ray Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae and Cataclysmic Variable Stars with MAGIC and Development of Trigger Systems for IACTs
Author: Rubén López CotoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319447513
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This thesis is a comprehensive work that addresses many of the open questions currently being discusssed in the very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray community. It presents a detailed description of the MAGIC telescope together with a glimpse of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). One section is devoted to the design, development and characterization of trigger systems for current and future imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The book also features a state-of-the-art description of pulsar wind nebula (PWN) systems, the study of the multi-TeV spectrum of the Crab nebula, as well as the discovery of VHE gamma rays at the multiwavelength PWN 3C 58, which were sought at these wavelengths for more than twenty years. It also includes the contextualization of this discovery amongst the current population of VHE gamma-ray PWNe. Cataclysmic variable stars represent a new source of gamma ray energies, and are also addressed here. In closing, the thesis reports on the systematic search for VHE gamma-ray emissions of AE Aquarii in a multiwavelength context and the search for VHE gamma-ray variability of novae during outbursts at different wavelengths.
A Search for Gamma-rays from the Crab Nebula Using a Digitized Spark Chamber
Author: Donald Avery KniffenPublisher:
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Category : Crab Nebula
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Analysis of Very High Energy Gamma Rays from the Crab Nebula Using Pulse Shape Information to Discriminate Against Cosmic Rays
Author: Jeffrey S. HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crab Nebula
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
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
Very High Energy Cosmic Gamma Radiation
Author: Felix A. AharonianPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789812561732
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Gamma ray astronomy, the branch of high energy astrophysics that studies the sky in energetic ?-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 OC hot topicsOCO 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."
Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy
Author: K.E. TurverPublisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Durham, U.K., August 11-15, 1986
Detection of High Energy Gamma Rays from the Crab Nebula Pulsar and Other Results of the First Balloon Flight of a New Type of Detector
Author: David Gilbert KochPublisher:
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Category : Crab Nebula
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description