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100 1 _aCourvoisier, Thierry J.-L.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHigh Energy Astrophysics
_h[electronic resource] :
_bAn Introduction /
_cby Thierry J.-L. Courvoisier.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2013.
300 _aXV, 332 p. 171 illus., 74 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aAstronomy and Astrophysics Library,
_x0941-7834
505 0 _aPart I Physical Processes -- 1 The framework -- 2 Radiation of an accelerated charge -- 3 Bremsstrahlung -- 4 Cyclotron line emission -- 5 Synchrotron emission -- 6 Compton processes -- 7 Comptonisation -- 8 Pair Processes -- 9 Particle acceleration -- 10 Accretion -- 11 Radiation inefficient accretion flows -- Part II Astrophysical Objects -- 12 Black holes and accretion efficiency -- 13 Neutron Stars -- 14 Pulsars -- 15 The Hulse–Taylor pulsar and gravitational radiation -- 16 X-ray binaries -- 17 X-ray binaries evolution -- 18 Relativistic jets -- 19 Gamma ray bursts -- 20 Active galactic nuclei -- 21 The diffuse X-ray background and other cosmic backgrounds.- Index.
520 _aHigh-energy astrophysics has unveiled a Universe very different from that only known from optical observations. It has revealed many types of objects in which typical variability timescales are as short as years, months, days, and hours (in quasars, X-ray binaries, and other objects), and even down to milli-seconds in gamma ray bursts. The sources of energy that are encountered are only very seldom nuclear fusion, and most of the time gravitation, a paradox when one thinks that gravitation is, by many orders of magnitude, the weakest of the fundamental interactions. The understanding of these objects' physical conditions and the processes revealed by high-energy astrophysics in the last decades is nowadays part of astrophysicists' culture, even of those active in other domains of astronomy. This book evolved from lectures given to master and PhD students at the University of Geneva since the early 1990s. It aims at providing astronomers and physicists intending to be active in high-energy astrophysics a broad basis on which they should be able to build the more specific knowledge they will need. While in the first part of the book the physical processes are described and derived in detail, the second part studies astrophysical objects in which high-energy astrophysics plays a crucial role. This two-pronged approach will help students recognise physical processes by their observational signatures in contexts that may differ widely from those presented here.
650 0 _aPhysics.
650 1 4 _aPhysics.
650 2 4 _aAstrophysics and Astroparticles.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783642309694
830 0 _aAstronomy and Astrophysics Library,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30970-0
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