Overview

This book presents the most updated review of our current knowledge of cosmic gamma-ray sources. Besides chapters devoted to each type of known gamma-ray emitting object, it provides a self-contained introduction to gamma-ray astrophysics, including a description of the relevant physical processes, a guide through the basic phenomenology, and the prospects for further advances. The book will be of interest for all active researchers in the field, for scientists interested in understanding the recent progress in gamma-ray astronomy, and for graduate students.

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Author:   K.S. Cheng ,  Gustavo E. Romero ,  Gustavo E. Romero
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Volume:   304
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.646kg
ISBN:  

9789048166251

ISBN 10:   904816625
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   05 March 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 1 The early years of gamma-ray astronomy.- 2 The age of the spark chambers.- 3 The Compton gamma-ray observatory.- 4 Gamma-ray line astronomy.- 5 The development of ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy.- 6 Cosmic gamma-ray sources.- 7 Suggested reading.- 2 Fundamentals of gamma-ray astrophysics.- 1 Basic concepts.- 2 Gamma-ray production: thermal mechanisms.- 3 Non-thermal gamma-ray production: particle—field interactions.- 4 Non-thermal gamma-ray production: particle-matter interactions.- 5 Gamma-ray line production.- 6 Gamma-ray absorption processes.- 7 Doppler and gravitational shifts of gamma rays.- 8 Related physical processes.- 3 Galactic gamma-ray sources.- 1 Young sources in star-forming regions.- 2 Variable sources in the inner spiral arms.- 3 Variable sources in the halo.- 4 Extragalactic gamma-ray sources.- 1 Low-, mid-, and high-latitude sources.- 2 The case for AGNs.- 3 EGRET observations of AGNs.- 4 Microlensing of -?-ray blazars.- 5 Alternative origins of high-latitude ?-ray sources.- 6 EGRET detections and cosmic rays.- 7 Concluding remarks.- 8 Acknowledgments.- 5 Non-thermal emission from early-type binaries.- 1 Some basic considerations.- 2 Non-thermal radio emission from early-type stars.- 3 Inverse Compton scattering.- 4 Other ?-ray emission mechanisms.- 5 Conclusions and future perspectives.- 6 Gamma-ray emission from supernova remnants.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Structure and evolution of SNRs.- 3 Particle acceleration in supernova remnants.- 4 Gamma-ray emission from supernova remnants.- 5 Supernova remnants and unidentified gamma-ray sources.- 6 The future of high-energy studies of supernova remnants.- 7 Gamma ray pulsars.- 1 Gamma-ray pulsar multiwavelength light curves.- 2 Gamma-ray pulsar multiwavelength energyspectra.- 3 Other candidate isolated neutron stars.- 4 Gamma-ray pulsars compared to the general pulsar population.- 5 Pulsars at the highest energies.- 6 Future pulsar observations at high energies.- 7 Summary.- 8 Theories of gamma-ray emission from pulsars.- 1 Basic properties of pulsars.- 2 Gamma-ray observations associated with pulsars.- 3 Theories of gamma-ray emission from regions within the light cylinder.- 4 Gamma-ray emission from regions beyond the light cylinder.- 5 Mature gamma-ray pulsars and unidentified gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy and in the Gould Belt.- 6 Discussion.- 9 High energy emission from microquasars.- 1 Introduction: what is a microa uasar?.- 2 X-ray emission from jets?.- 3 High-energy ?-ray emission.- 4 Predictions.- 5 Synchrotron self-Comptonization models.- 6 External Comptonization models.- 7 Hadronic jet models.- 8 Gamma-ray lines.- 9 Why are there so few sources, and how do we find more?.- 10 Conclusions.- 10 Gamma-ray bursts.- 1 The standard fireball shock model.- 2 Post-standard effects.- 3 Further topics.- 11 Clusters of galaxies at high energy gamma-rays.- 1 Gamma-ray identification of individual galaxy clusters.- 2 Spatial-statistical correlation studies.- 3 Contribution of unresolved galaxy clusters to the EGDB.- 12 Diffuse gamma rays.- 1 Gamma rays and cosmic rays connection.- 2 Cosmic rays.- 3 Galactic structure.- 4 Diffuse galactic gamma-ray emission.- 5 Extragalactic diffuse emission.- 6 Faint sources.- 7 Tracers of exotic Physics ?.- 8 Broader picture and future perspective.- 13 Multifrequency strategies for the identification of gamma-ray sources.- 1 Introduction and historical overview.- 2 Blazars and EGRET unidentified sources.- 3 EGRET sources and radio galaxies.- 4 Radio quiet isolated neutron stars.- 5 Young pulsarcandidates.- 6 Other source classes.- 7 Studies of EGRET unidentified sources at TeV energies.- 14 Future ground-based TeV gamma-ray telescopes.- 1 Detection technique.- 2 Observational status.- 3 The next generation of imaging telescopes.- 4 Future prospects.- 5 Acknowledgements.- 15 GLAST: Understanding the high energy gamma-ray sky.- 1 Instrument description.- 2 Prospects: known and potential ?-ray sources.- 3 Conclusions.- Author Index.- Object Index.

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