Steven M. Kahn, Peter Ballmoos, Rashid A. Sunyaev

High-Energy Spectroscopic Astrophysics (eBook, PDF)

Saas Fee Advanced Course 30. Lecture Notes 2000. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783540270133
• Artikelnr.: 37371375

Autorenporträt

Steven M. Kahn, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA / Peter von Ballmoos, Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Toulouse, France / Rashid A. Sunyaev, MPI für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

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Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Plasmas (Steven M. Kahn): Classical and Quantum Radiation Theory.- The Structure of Multi-Electron Atoms.- Electron-Ion Collisional Processes.- Discrete Line Diagnostics.- Concluding Remarks.- Instruments for Nuclear Astrophysics (Peter von Ballmoos): Introduction.- Interaction of High-Energy Photons with Matter.- Detectors.- The Instruments for Nuclear Astronomy.- Hard X-Ray and Gamma Ray Spectroscopy (Rashid Sunyaev and Sergey Sazonov): Fundamentals of Compton Scattering.- Comptonization in Infinite Homogeneous Media.- Comptonization in Bounded Plasma Clouds.- Interaction of X-Rays with Partially Ionized Media.- 6.4-keV Fluorescent Emission from Molecular Clouds in the Galactic Center.- X-Ray Emission from Supernova 1987A.- Accretion onto Black Holes and Neutron Stars.