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Author:   Cosimo Bambi ,  Jiachen Jiang
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:  

9789819944118

ISBN 10:   9819944112
Pages:   425
Publication Date:   24 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I: Instrumentation and data analysis.- 1. History, present and future of high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy .- 2. X-ray Diffraction Grating Spectrometers .- 3. XMM-Newton grating .- - Introduction to RGS.- - Data reduction for RGS data.- 4. Chandra grating.- - Introduction to LETG/HETG.- - Data reduction for Chandra data.- 5. High-resolution grating spectral analysis .- - Statistics and spectral grouping.- - Line search.- - Spectral analysis with SPEX.- 6. Micro-calorimeters with transition edge sensors .- 7. Hitomi micro-calorimeter .- - Introduction to the micro-calorimeter on Hitomi.- - Data reduction for SXT data.- 8. High-resolution spectral analysis of Hitomi data.- Part II: Science.- 9. Overview of astrophysical plasmas.- 10. Clusters of galaxies.- 11. Active galactic nuclei.- 12. Circumgalactic and intergalactic medium.- 13. Solar wind and charge exchange.- 14. Galactic black hole X-ray binaries.- 15. Supernova remnants.- 16. Galactic cataclysmic variables.- 17. Dynamics of gas and plasma in cool and hot stars

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Cosimo Bambi: Cosimo Bambi is currently Xie Xide Junior Chair Professor at the Department of Physics at Fudan University. He received the Laurea degree from Florence University in 2003 and the PhD degree from Ferrara University in 2007. He worked as a postdoctoral research scholar at Wayne State University, IPMU/The University of Tokyo, and LMU Munich. He joined Fudan University at the end of 2012 under the 1000 Young Talents Program. His main research interests focus on theoretical and observational studies on black holes. He has published about 200 papers on high impact factor refereed journals as first or corresponding author and has over 10,000 citations. He has published several books with Springer, either as author and editor. He has received a number of awards, including the Magnolia Gold Award in 2022 and the Magnolia Silver Award in 2018 from the Municipality of Shanghai, the International Excellent Young Scientists Award from the National Natural Science Foundation ofChina in 2022, and the Xu Guangqi Prize from the Embassy of Italy in Beijing in 2018. Jiachen Jiang: Jiachen Jiang received his bachelor's degree in physics from Fudan University in 2016 and his PhD in Astronomy from Cambridge University in 2020. He worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Tsinghua University and is currently a Leverhulme Trust/Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University. His research focuses on multi-wavelength observations of accreting black holes, including stellar-mass black holes in binary systems and supermassive black holes in the centre of galaxies.

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